Library Research Guides: Music Resources: Find Sources

Resources

Kaufman Library provides access to many databases that can help with your music research. In addition to the those highlighted below, you can access our full list of databases using our Databases A-Z list (link below).

GGC Databases A-Z
Search by title and subject from 169 Databases.

Music Databases (including streaming audio)

Music Online: American Music
Musical recordings associated with American history, including Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
Classical music recordings
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Includes genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Jazz music recordings
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound
Virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions
Oxford Music Online
Access point for Grove Music Online and other Oxford music reference resources
Music & Performing Arts
Audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles

Multidisciplinary Databases

Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
Academic Video Online
Delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
JSTOR
Expanded (trial) content now available! Access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Project Muse
Leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content.
Academic OneFile
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
OmniFile Full Text Select
Full text research database that serves multiple disciplines.
Arte Publico Historical Collection
Digital collection of historical content pertaining to Hispanic history, literature, political commentary, and culture in the United States.
America: History & Life
America: History and Life (AHL) is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises over 530,000 bibliographic entries for periodicals dating back to 1954.
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
Academic Search Complete
Full-text coverage of information in many areas of academic study, including archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion and theology, women's studies, and other fields.
Literary Reference Center
Literary Reference Center includes thousands of plot summaries, synopses, and work overviews; articles of literary criticism; author biographies; full text of over 430 literary journals; book reviews; classic and contemporary poems and short stories; full text of over 7,000 classic novels; author interviews; and images of key literary figures.

Multidisciplinary Reference

Credo Reference Online
Full-text online reference service

Kaufman Library provides access to many journals both individually and through our databases that can help with your music research. In addition to the those highlighted below, you can access our full list of electronic journals using the link below.

Electronic journals

Music Journals

Contemporary Music Review
Provides a forum where new tendencies in composition can be discussed in both breadth & depth.
Early Music
Articles, profiles, book and music reviews, notes on upcoming events, and recordings on all aspects of Early Music for enthusiasts and a general audience.
Eighteenth-Century Music
Eighteenth-Century Music is a well-established journal dedicated to all areas of eighteenth-century music research. Its generous breadth of coverage includes, alongside articles and essays by both leading and emerging scholars, a wide range of reviews and a communications section that reports on conferences and other items of interest from around the world.
Asian Music
Asian Music, the journal of the Society for Asian Music, is the leading journal devoted to ethnomusicology in Asian music, publishing all aspects of the performing arts of Asia and their cultural context.
General Music Today
Contains articles on emerging trends, effective teaching ideas, & new material for teaching general music at all levels.
Music Analysis
Music Analysis is eclectic in its coverage of music from medieval to post-modern times, and has regular articles on non-western music. Its lively tone and focus on specific works makes it of interest to the general reader as well as the specialist.
Music and Letters
Articles, commentary and reviews of books and music embracing all fields of musical enquiry, from the earliest times to the present day aimed at an international audience.
Music Theory Online
Features articles, reviews, commentaries, and analytical essays related to the field of professional music theory.
Popular Music
Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject - from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global music industry, to how particular pieces of music are put together.
The Society for American Music Bulletin
The Bulletin is the triannual online newsletter of the Society for American Music, Issues contain feature articles, columns, book reviews, media reviews, information on annual SAM conferences, society business, and news of members’ achievements.

Trade Publications

Billboard
The international newsweekly of music, video and home entertainment; profiles, commentary, album ratings, feature articles, marketing and reviews.
Music Week
Publishes music industry news, sales charts, airplay charts, commentary, features, product information & gossip.

The link below will take you directly to books about music in the Kaufman Library collection. You'll also be able to edit the search (limit by date, eBook vs. physical book, and more).

Library Catalog Search - Music Books

eBook Collections

You can also search our eBook collections directly instead of through the library catalog. Below are links to our eBook platforms.

EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Multidisciplinary eBook titles
eBook Central
Access over 810,000 ebooks and 1,350 imprints from more than 650 publishers.

Music Resources on the Web

The resources in this section are freely available on the Web.

AllMusic
AllMusic is a comprehensive and in-depth resource for finding out more about the albums, bands, musicians and songs you love.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge.
Interactive Circle of Fifths
Online Scores and Sheet Music
List compiled by Duke University of online sites providing access to scores and sheet music
OnMusic Dictionary
OnMusic Dictionary is the successor of former Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary.
Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians
This dictionary provides some help in the form of pronunciations by a phonetic system devised by E. Douglas Brown of the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa State University. Many of the pronunciations in the dictionary were derived from tape-recorded pronunciations made by foreign nationals who were were speaking their respective native languages.
Sheet Music Consortium
The Sheet Music Consortium provides tools and services that promote access to and use of online sheet music collections by scholars, students, and the general public.