Music Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.
  
  
• Grove Music Online
  Leading English-Language encyclopedias on music, opera and jazz
  Now part of Oxford Music Online
  
  
• Library Catalog
  Catalog of books, CDs, scores and other materials available in the CSUS Library.
  
  
• Oxford Music Online
  Introductions to and overviews of musicians, compositions, and other topics on music from all historical eras.
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Most Relevant:

• Classical Music Library (CML)
  A service that streams music via the Internet to listeners. The service offers a continually growing music collection, currently consisting of over 19,000 classical music tracks (not works) from over 500 composers, as well as thousands of cross-referenced program notes, suggested playlists, biographies and images.
  
  
• Music Index
  Index of articles in select music journals, from 1949-present.
  Available in print in the Reference Room: Ref. ML118 .M84
  
  
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
  Index and description of articles in music, from 1967-1997.
  Available in print in the Reference Room: Ref. ML 1 .I83
  
  
• WorldCat
  Catalog of materials held in libraries across the nation.
  
  

Other Useful Databases:

• Humanities Full Text
  Searches the abstracts (descriptions) of 250,000 articles and reviews of 300,000 books published in 600 leading humanities journals from 1984 to the present.
  
  
• Project MUSE
  Full-text of five Music journals, including The Opera Quarterly.
  
  

See Also:

• Art databases