Music

This scholarly database contains over 3,600 peer-reviewed publications in full-text on every subject.

American Doctoral Dissertations provides electronic access to the print index Doctoral Dissertations Accepted by American Universities. The enhanced database includes more than 153,000 theses and dissertations from 1902 to the present.

Spanning many genres and historical periods, this collection contains over 69,000 tracks from over 4,000 albums.

Billboard has been the premier publication for music industry. It features an extensive array of searchable, playable charts, breaking music news, artist interviews and exclusives, news, video and more.

Contains the contents of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, the 33 1/3 book series, and other reference titles.

Provides access to information such as duration, instrumentation, chorus type and soloists on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers

Access full text of dissertations and theses in PDF format authored by American students. Access includes digitized and electronic dissertations and theses from 1916 until present. To see other formats, check our library catalog.

Streaming audio access to more than 3,700 albums' worth of recordings, spanning all genres. Includes liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.

Digital archive of facsimile editions of major trade and consumer magazines related to film, theater, music, television, and general entertainment industry. 
Includes 15 trade and popular magazines covering all aspects of the music industry, theatre and broadcast radio in the US and UK covering the period 1880-2000; 10 long-running and highly influential magazines which document all aspects of cinema going, the film industry and the evolution of television and popular culture between 1905 and 2000; and 12 further major consumer and trade publications from the US and the UK on film and television, from 1907 to 2015.
Provides complete runs of magazines from their inception to 2000, including Variety, Billboard, and Broadcasting & Cable, and the Hollywood Reporter to 2015.

More than 1,000 ethnographic films with transcripts. The collection covers every region of the world and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides. Transcripts of all programs provided.

A database of streaming videos, all academic-level documentaries, across all subject areas. Transcripts of all programs provided. NOTE: This collection also includes the contents of Filmakers Library Online, volume 2.

Choose from over 7500 streaming films in the humanities and social sciences, business, science and mathematics, health, and newsreels. About 50% of content has captioning available. No transcripts are provided.

Contains over 1,200 essays on the indigenous, popular, and classical music of every region in the world.

Access to Oxford Music Online 3 concurrent users. Oxford Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes), The Oxford Dictionary of Music (second edition), and The Oxford Companion to Music.

IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works.

Books, journal articles, and dissertations on all aspects of theatre and dance are indexed and annotated. Over 500 titles are available in full-text.

A library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Detailed catalog of over 100 years of recorded jazz.
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Full-text of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences, plus a collection of more than two million digital art images for teaching and research.

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Streaming videos of classical concerts, operas, and ballets with over 700 programs available.
Register for an individual, sponsored account to access and cast content via iOS and Android apps.

Streaming video and audio collection of the Metropolitan Opera performances.

A source for breaking music industry news, including people, competitions, awards, reviews, and more. Also included is the Musical American International Directory of the Performing Arts, a directory of more than 14,000 worldwide arts organizations.
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Music and Dance Online delivers the multimedia sources from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.

Music Index surveys 775 music periodicals from more than 40 countries in 22 languages. The index covers articles, books, and news about all aspects of music.

Traditional and modern music representing every genre from every region in the world are contained in nearly 200,000 tracks.

IIMP Full Text provides indexing and abstracts for more than 440 international music periodicals, plus full text for 130 journals. The index also contains retrospective articles dating from as far back as 1874. The emphasis of the database ranges from scholarly music research to popular articles on recent trends.

Naxos Jazz offers close to 23,600 tracks of jazz from over 3,000 albums by more than 500 jazz artists; it is comprised of Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.
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Naxos provides access to a large collection of audio streaming files in the genres of Classical, Jazz/Blues, Film, World and Folk Music. The database includes the content from more than 41,380 CDs released by the Naxos label as well as other labels. More than 1,000 new CDs are added every month.

An excellent source of up-to-date news, business and legal information. News stories date back to the late 1970s. U.S. and international sources are available for most content areas. Includes Company Dossier content.

Contains more than 500 hours of streaming video of performances from top opera companies. Transcripts of all programs provided.

This index of about 210 periodicals covers the variety of performing arts including dance, film, television, theater, and related subjects. As of Summer 2003, 36 of the periodicals contain full text articles back to 1998.

Full-text articles from journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, published by university presses.

Multi-subject reference source covering general and academic periodicals; full-text is available for many articles.

Offers critical performing editions of music in seven series consisting in editions that either span the history of Western music, or are tied to specific cultural milieus. Most editions in Recent Researches in Music are devoted to works by a single composer or in a single genre. The complete content of scores and parts are available online.

Indexes the international scholarly literature of music, including journal articles, conference proceedings, essays, books, dissertations, critical editions of music, digital media, and online resources. Date coverage is from the 1800s, in some cases the late 1700s, to the present.

Provides the locations of music manuscripts and printed music between 1600 and 1800.

Contains digitized images and catalog descriptions of public domain sheet music selected from AU's 2,500 piece collection of historical sheet music. The digitized collection has a focus on late 19th-century and early 20th-century art songs.

This comprehensive streaming audio collection of world music includes the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, which is considered an encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

OCLC WorldCat is a catalog of holdings from libraries around the world - containing entries for books, videos, journals, recordings, and more - over 43 million records. Each record has a link to the American University interlibrary loan request form.
NOTE: WorldCat is NOT a database of research articles.