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Key Music Databases

Index to Printed Music » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Maximum simultaneous users: 1. 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. It indexes each individual piece in a collection.
IPA Source International Phonetic Alphabet » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Contains the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Music Database (IIMP) » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Maximum simultaneous users: 4. Formerly known as "International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)". Contains all of IIMP plus the complete text of current articles from over 61 music journals.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Maximum simultaneous users: 1. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive guide to writings about music. Coverage includes all types and aspects of music. It features the abstracts of articles written in over one hundred languages. Scholarly works are covered including articles from more than 5,200 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, dissertations, Festschriften, reviews, and catalogues.

Online Resources for Music Scholars

The Aria Database
The Aria Database is a collection of information about opera and operatic arias.
Besides providing basic information about each aria, the Database includes translations for many arias and aria texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions.

Canadian Music Periodical Index » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
The CMPI database includes nearly 30 000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed. A complete list of the periodical titles that have been included in CMPI is available on the website.

Digital Resources for Musicology
Provides links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists.
Fake Book Index
Resource for locating fake book tunes without having to check individual fake books.
Musical Festivals Database (MFD)
The Musical Festivals Database (MFD) is a fully-searchable index of programs, personnel, ensembles and venues of musical festivals held between 1695 and 1940.
MusRef
A Guide to More than 8,000 Print and Internet Resources
RISM
RISM's database offers the most comprehensive documentation available for music manuscripts and printed music for the time between 1600 and 1800. It continues to grow through monthly updates and averages around 30,000 new records anually.
Rock's Backpages
Over 38,000 classic articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top by the finest music writers of the last 60 years
Virtual Library of Musicology

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary database designed specifically for academic institutions, it includes full text of journals, magazines, and newspapers. It is the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database.
JSTOR
Multidisciplinary database giving archival access to scholarly journals within the following areas: arts, sciences, humanities and social sciences. Note that Jstor does not provide access to current issues.
MLA Bibliography
Coverage is worldwide and includes references to articles from over 3,500 journals. MLA International Bibliography also covers series, monographs, dissertations, bibliographies, and conference proceedings.

Project Muse » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals and e-Books from 60 scholarly publishers.

Dissertations

Open Access Theses and Dissertations
OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Society for Music Theory Dissertation Index
Dissertations listed in the journal Music Theory Online

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global » Ce lien s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre / This link opens in a new window
Provides bibliographic information and abstracts for doctoral dissertations and Masters theses from accredited North American, UK and Irish universities. From 1957 to present, dissertations with appropriate copyright permissions may be downloaded at no charge. To obtain copies at a discount of dissertations not available for download, request them through Interlibrary loans.

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Key Music Databases

Online Resources for Music Scholars

Multidisciplinary Databases

Dissertations