LibGuides: Music: Find Articles

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Databases

These databases will help you find scholarly articles about Music.

General Information

Humanities International Complete This link opens in a new window
Humanities International Complete is a comprehensive database of humanities content.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles in over 375 core academic journals with back-files lacking only the most recent 3 -5 years.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Over 8,200 publications are available in this multi-discipline database, with full text for nearly 4,650 of those titles.
Proquest Central This link opens in a new window
General reference database for over 175 subjects from magazines, journals and newspapers, including peer-reviewed and scholarly works.

Music Specific

Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new window
Offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Offers users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location.

Music Dissertations

Why use a dissertation?

Every dissertation includes a comprehensive overview of the topic's existing literature. Called literature reviews, these overviews provide a concise summary of the topic's important themes, texts, theories and concepts.

DDM-Online
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DDM-Online is an international database of records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology.
Dissertation Index from Music Theory Online
Provides citations for music related dissertations from 1973; international in scope, but not comprehensive.
RILM Music Abstracts
Provides citations for music related dissertations from 1915.

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Scholarly vs. Popular Articles

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Music Dissertations

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