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Subject: Music databases
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African American Music Reference
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African-American Music Reference is a comprehensive reference database that chronicles the rich history of African-American music through 1970. It offers comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. Resources include biographies, anthologies, encyclopedias, images, lyrics (digitized and fully searchable), song sheets, chronologies, critical textbooks, a comprehensive discography of the top African-American artists, and links to editorially selected Web resources.
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American Music
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Streaming audio collection of musical recordings from America's past, including songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys, reflecting the history of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Archive Finder
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Archive directory database that combines a number of separate databases to list primary source collections in the US, UK and Ireland. On the Chadwick-Healey platform.
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Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Arts and humanities indexing database covering journal articles and citation information back to 1975. Part of Web of Science on the Web of Knowledge platform.
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Arts & Humanities Database
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The contents reflect the full interdisciplinarity of contemporary study in the arts and humanities, covering art, design, crafts, and photography; archaeology, anthropology, and classical studies; architecture, interior design, and urban planning; history, philosophy, geography, and religion; modern languages and literatures; and music, theatre, film, and cultural studies.
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Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive
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Caribbean Studies in Video presents more than 1,000 hours of edited and unedited footage from the Banyan Production company, the first Caribbean enterprise to produce original TV content in the 1970s. Available for the first time in streaming format, their programs are filled with interviews of key personalities across disciplines; theater, music and dance performances; documentaries on rituals and cultural practices; political events and much more.
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Classical Music in Video
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Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.
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Classical Music Library
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Streaming audio collection featuring a wide variety of classical music recordings. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Classical Music Reference Library
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Classical Music Reference Library brings together a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
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Classical Scores Library Volumes 1-4
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Music full-text database that provides classical music scores and allows printing movements for notation. On the Alexander Street Press platform.
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Contemporary World Music
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Streaming audio collection featuring a wide variety of music recordings from around the world. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Dissertations & Theses
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Multidisciplinary indexing/full-text database that indexes world-wide dissertations and theses back to 1861; full-text back to 1997. Includes UW theses. On the ProQuest platform.
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DRAM
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Streaming audio music collection featuring contemporary classical and jazz recordings issued by New World Records, Composers Recordings, and other labels.
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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
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Full-text archive of major entertainment industry trade magazines, with coverage back to 1894. On the ProQuest platform.
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Ethnographic Sound Archives
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Database containing over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, alongside their supporting field notes and ethnographers’ metadata, for the study of music in its cultural context. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings
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Collection of ethnomusicological audio recordings, videos, field notebooks, journals, and photographs documenting various musical traditions around the world, drawn from the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive and the University of Washington Ethnomusicology Archives. On the Adam Matthew platform.
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Fine Arts (Gale OneFile)
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The Fine Arts & Music Collection includes 10.4 million articles on drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. More than 250 journals covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) index are available in full text.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
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Music reference database that provides articles on world music. On the Alexander Street Press platform.
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IMSLP [International Music Score Library Project]
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Music full-text database that provides music scores and recordings in the public domain. On its own platform.
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IPA Source (Transcriptions and Translations of Opera Arias & Song Texts)
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Opera reference database that provides pronunciations, transcriptions and literal translations, in English, of operatic arias and art songs. On its own platform.
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Jazz Music Library
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Streaming audio collection featuring a wide variety of jazz music recordings. On the Alexander Street platform.
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JSTOR (Journal Storage Archive)
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Multidisciplinary eJournal platform that provides complete back runs of journals in the following licensed collections: Arts & Sciences I-IV and VII, Life Sciences, Plant Sciences, Current Scholarship and Early Journal Content. On the JSTOR platform.
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medici.tv
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Resource for classical music programming: live events from the world’s most prestigious halls, plus thousands of concerts, operas, ballets, and more in the VOD catalogue.
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Met Opera on Demand: Student Access
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Met Opera on Demand: Student Access provides streaming access to more than 600 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances. Scroll down past the featured titles to access search and browse functions on the site.
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Music Index
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Major music indexing database that covers journal articles back to 1970. On the EBSCOhost platform.
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Music Online: Listening
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Multidisciplinary collection of musical recordings and videos. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Music Periodicals Database
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Music indexing/full-text database that covers journal articles back to 1874. On the ProQuest platform.
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Musical Theater Songs
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MusicalTheaterSongs.com lets you enter up to 20-plus parameters (voice type, character age, range, ease for accompanist, descriptive characteristics, etc.) to generate a list of songs tailored to your needs from an ever-growing database. MusicalTheaterSongs.com draws from 150 years of musical theater repertoire, ranging from well-known standards to rare finds to help you find the right songs quickly and easily.
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Naxos Music Library
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Streaming audio collection of classical music recordings with supporting reference information. On the Naxos platform.
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Naxos Music Library Jazz
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Streaming audio collection of jazz music recordings. On the Naxos platform. Access liminted to 30 simultaneous users.
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Opera in Video
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Database containing 500 hours of opera performances. On the Alexander Street Press platform.
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Oxford History of Western Music
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The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Since its original publication in print, Taruskin’s landmark study has received universal acclaim and numerous awards. The online version includes all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples from the updated paperback edition with search and browse functionality.
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Oxford Music Online
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Music reference database that provides Grove Music Online and other reference sources. On the Oxford platform.
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Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975
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Historic full-text archive that reproduces manuscripts, rare printed materials and photos from the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975. On the Adam Matthew platform.
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Popular Music Library
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Streaming audio collection featuring a wide variety of popular music recordings. Genres represented include alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and more. On the Alexander Street platform.
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Project Muse
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Multidisciplinary ejournal and ebook platform that provides full-text of library-licensed journals and ebooks. On its own platform.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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Music bibliographical database featuring citations, abstracts, and subject indexing. On the EBSCOhost platform.
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Rolling Stone Archive
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The backfile of Rolling Stone, from its launch in 1967 to the present. On the ProQuest platform.
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Sibley Music Library: Musical Scores
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Searchable database of 12,000 public-domain music scores. On the University of Rochester website.
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Sixties, The: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives
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Interdisciplinary full-text archives that reproduces diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, government documents, memorabilia and scholarly commentary on the American sixties. On the Alexander Street Press platform.
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Smithsonian Global Sound
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Database of world music recordings, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
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WorldCat FirstSearch
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Major multidisciplinary indexing database that covers the world's book and other monographic literature. On OCLC's FirstSearch platform.