Music
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FINDING ARTICLES
MUSIC INDEXES
International Index to Music Periodicals--Online. Online index to more than half a million articles, including detailed abstracts and some full text from 1874 to current, covering a broad scope of research from performance, theory and composition to music education, jazz and ethnomusicology.
Music Index--Online. A subject-author guide to music periodical literature offering access to a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data. Includes coverage of book reviews, reviews of music recordings and performances. No abstracts (summaries). Printed equivalent at Music Library dates back to 1949. Music Reference ML 118 .M4
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature--Online. Devoted primarily to scholarly, classical music topics; relatively little popular music.A wide variety of different languages and document types, including journal articles, festschriften, dissertations, books, book reviews, performance reviews, etc. Abstracts (summaries) included. Dates covered: 1969 to present. Printed equivalent at Music Library dates back to 1967. Music Reference ML 1 .I 83
OTHER USEFUL INDEXES
Academic Search Complete.Some full text · All Subjects · Journals articles, newspaper articles
America: History and Life. Article abstracts and citations of reviews covering the scholarly literature of U.S. & Canadian history. Includes regional history journals, book reviews & dissertations. Coverage:1954-present.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Index to core journal articles and cited works in the fine arts and humanities, including archaeology, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, film, folklore, history, language and literature, linguistics, music, theater, and classics. The library's print copy covers the gap in coverage before the online system. Coverage:1990-present.
Business and Company Resource Center Useful for finding information on various aspects of the music industry.
ERIC(via EBSCOhost)
The ERIC database is the primary index in the field of education. It indexes articles in 1,300 journals. It also indexes more than 400,000 ERIC Documents, which include research reports, curriculum guides, and conference papers, and other unpublished material. Includes some full-text. Useful for doing research on music education.
Historical Abstracts. A selective bibliography of the world's historical literature (journal articles, books, dissertations) excluding U.S. and Canadian history. Covers the historical period from 1450 to present.
Humanities International Complete Index of the humanities literature, including archaeology, art, classical studies, folklore, history, journalism, language and literature, linguistics, performing arts, political criticism, philosophy, and religion.Coverage: 1984-present.
General OneFile Some full text · All Subjects · Journal and magazine articles, newspaper articles and newswires
International Index to the Performing Arts
IIPA covers the disciplines of dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and the performance business.
ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Abstracts of 300 scholarly journal titles of materials pertaining to the Renaissance (400-1700), published since 1990. Subject access is via Library of Congress Subject Headings.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Mostly full text · News, business, law, health, biography · Newspapers and news magazines. Also includes articles on the performing arts, including reviews.
DISSERTATIONS
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology--Online. DDM-Online presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories. In addition, DDM-Online includes all the records previously published in the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.
Archive of Dissertation Abstracts In Music This archive is maintained by Geoffrey Chew mainly on the basis of material supplied by Andrew Dell'Antonio. The abstracts relate both to completed dissertations and to those in progress.
Music Theory Online Dissertation Index This index includes announcements of completed and in-progress dissertations that have appeared in Music Theory Online.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Full Text . Coverage: 1861 - Current . Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF. formats for immediate free download.
The University of Arizona Electronic Theses and Dissertations. The Electronic Theses and Dissertations database is the intellectual output of graduate students at the University of Arizona. The database allows for searching and browsing on all the topics. Coverage include theses and dissertations (2005 - ) approved by the Graduate college and masters' reports (2003 -) approved by College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona. The database is updated weekly.
Worldcat. A catalog of records for all type of material cataloged by libraries throughout the world. Includes records for manuscripts written as early as the 12th century as well as records for books, dissertations, journals, software, etc. created last week. This database is updated daily. Some materials available through Interlibrary Loan. [16]