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Music Internet Gateways
Grove Music
Online. Incorporates New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians,
New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,
and selected articles from
The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers.
50,000 articles. Updated continuously.
Music Index: The primary index
to periodical literature in music. Indexes over 850 journals. Covers 1973-present
only. For articles written prior to 1973, consult annual cumulative volumes
in the printed version
(Quick Reference). Includes links to full-text where available.
International Index to Music Periodicals: The IIMP current file provides
access to over 530,000 articles published in more than 430 international
journals. Updated monthly.
RILM Abstracts: Provides abstracts to 500,000 articles, books, dissertations, reviews, etc., for the period 1967-present. Over 30,000 records are added to the database each year. Includes links to full-text where available.
International bibliography of theatre and dance. Index to journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance. Coverage: 1982-
OneSearch: Music, Dance, Drama & Film:
Meta-search engine that returns results from multiple indexes with a single search. Covers Music Index, IIMP, RILM, Grove Music Online, and others.
Proquest Digital Dissertations. Provides
citations and abstracts to more than 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and
masters theses from over 1,000 U.S. and foreign institutions, 1861 to present.
Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF format. Continuously updated. University of Cincinnati patrons have access to a separate UMI database of full-text copies of UC dissertations from 1955 to the present.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD Center) An OhioLINK resource containing abtracts and some full text of University of Cincinnati theses and dissertations from ca. 2000 to present.
DDM (Doctoral Dissertations
in Musicology online). Citations for over 13,700 dissertations in musicology,
music theory, ethnomusicology, and related fields. Includes citations for
works in progress.
WorldCat:
The OCLC database with a user-friendly interface. Contains the holdings of
nearly 40,000 libraries throughout the world (95 million items). Useful for obtaining items via Inter-Library Loan.
Musical America. The business
source for the performing arts. Updated continuously.
RISM (The International Inventory of Musical Sources) The International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) is an international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. The organization, founded in Paris in 1952, is the largest and the only global operation that registers written musical sources. RISM brings together more than 585,000 works by over 20,500 composers into one database. The manuscripts are found in over 740 libraries and archives in 31 countries.
Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series edited by George R. Hill. The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series combines the Index Database , the Bibliography Database and the Names Database into the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. Because it indexes each individual piece in a collection, it provides superior access for scholars, performers, teachers, and other researchers. Music for specific performing forces is easily retrievable, thus offering detailed repertory for performers, conductors, and directors of ensembles.The Index Database currently contains ca. 135,000 records, with over 20 fields of information. The Index Database is linked to the Bibliography Database (ca. 9,300 citations as contained in the print volume Collected Editions, Historical Series and Sets and Monuments of Music: a Bibliography by George R. Hill and Norris L. Stephens (Berkeley: Fallen Leaf Press, 1997). This database is searchable by composer, title, and series name and number. The Names Database currently contains around 20,000 names with three times as many cross-references (alternate forms of the names)
The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds. Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed. The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
Art Abstracts: Contains citations to some music-related articles in art journals. Of interest also to those doing research in the field of music iconography and historical musicology. Coverage begins in 1929; abstracts from 1994. 1,737,000 entries.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Incorporated into ISI Web of Knowledge.
Education Abstracts:
Database indexing over 500 international English language periodicals. Coverage
begins with 1983. Updated monthly.
ERIC: A comprehensive
database of the education literature, covering over 700 educational journals,
research reports, and other documents collected by the U.S. Department of
Education. Coverage begins with 1966. Updated monthly.
Proquest Newspapers: Provides abstracts
to articles and some full text from 52 U.S. newspapers. Updated weekly. Coverage varies (mostly 1990-). Good for finding music reviews, interviews, etc.
ProQuest
Research Library: Provides citations and
abstracts in over 3880 general reference periodicals including popular magazines
and professional journals since 1971. It is updated monthly. More than half are full-text. Indexes several popular music journals. Of limited
value.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
Music Resources (Sibelius Academy)