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Music databases
Need a good starting point?
Try searching several databases at once:
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Prefer a more in-depth, precise search? Try searching individual databases:
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Primary databases
- Music Index
- An index to more than 640 international music periodicals
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- CAIRSS for Music
- A bibliographic database of music research literature which indexes
15 journals
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- Canadian
Music Periodical Index
- An index of 475 Canadian music journals, newsletters, and magazines
dating from the late 19th century to the present. Updated monthly. From
the National Library of Canada.
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- Classical Music Library
- More than 100,000 recorded tracks of classical music supplemented by thousands of program notes, biographies, and images
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Music Education
- ERIC
- Indexes journal articles and documents in education and related fields
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- Music Education Resource Base (MERB)
- Includes the Canadian Music Index. MERB/CMI is a bibliographic database of more than 31,000 resources in music and music education from 35 Canadian and International journals and other sources covering the period 1956 through the present. The journals are fully indexed by title, author, and subject.
More general databases with some coverage of music
- Academic Search Premier
- An all-purpose academic database covering many disciplines
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- Expanded Academic ASAP
- A multidisciplinary database; a good starting point for many academic research topics
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- General OneFile
- An all-purpose database covering a wide range of subjects, providing access to more than 5,500 scholarly and popular full-text journals. A good place for finding reviews of recordings (search example: magic flute and sound recording review*)
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- JSTOR
- An archive of scholarly full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes a number of art journals.
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E-Books and other resources
- Collections of online encylopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, etc.:
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For additional resources, see our subject guide for music.
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