Electronic Research Tools:
Articles & More
(Including Journal or Newspaper
Articles & Recording or Performance Reviews)
The following music-related indexes represent only a small subset of the indexes and databases available at St. Olaf. Please consult the St. Olaf Libraries' Indexes: Articles & More page for a complete listing.
For off-campus access to online indexes and
databases, please consult our instruction
guide.
| Academic Search Premier | |
| This database provides access to over 8040 multi-disciplinary publications, many in full-text. Covers 1975 to present. | |
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| African American Song | |
| Online music listening service documenting the history of African American music. | |
| Dance in Video | |
| Dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. | |
| Dissertations & Theses | |
| Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in full-text. | |
| Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online | |
| "DDM-Online presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories." | |
| DRAM | |
| "A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other important labels." | |
| GoogleScholar | |
| Google's database of scholarly materials. Caveat: Often leads to journal home pages which request payment for articles we may already have full-text or in print | |
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| Grove Music Online | |||
| This online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It offers keyword searching of articles, biographies, bibliographies, and contributors. You can also browse by article title, abbreviations, or contributors. | |||
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| International Index to Music Periodicals | |
| An full-text database for a wide variety of music periodicals, some dating back to the late 1800s. Covers 1874-present | |
| International Index to the Performing Arts | |
| Full-text database of over 200 international performing arts periodicals, plus related articles and obituaries in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Covers 1864-present. | |
| IPA Source | |
| Library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. | |
| JSTOR | |
| An index to and full text of select, academic journals. | |
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| Music Index | |||
| The major index to periodical literature in the field of music. Indexes obituaries, book reviews, reviews of performances, and scholarly articles from over 300 music periodicals. Does not include abstracts. Covers 1975-present. | |||
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| Music Online | |
| A single cross-search of the following databases: African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and Opera in Video. | |
| Music Online: African American Music Reference | |
| Coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. | |
| Music Online: American Song | |
| A history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. | |
| Music Online: Classical Music Library | |
| Database of classical music recordings for online listening. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. | |
| Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library | |
| Brings together 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. | |
| Music Online: Classical Scores Library | |
| Includes over 12,000 of the most important classical scores and manuscripts. | |
| Music Online: Contemporary World Music | |
| Database of world music for online listening. Many genres and styles are covered, including 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 | |
| Database of jazz music recordings for online listening. | |
| Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | |
| Comprehensive resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. | |
| Naxos Music Library | |
| Naxos Music Library is a collection of classical music. "It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000+ tracks". You can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. | |
| New York Times (1851 - 2006) | |
| Offers "full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue." | |
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| Opera in Video | |
| Contains some of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. | |
| Orchestral Music Online | |
| Provides access to information on more than 6700 works by some 900 composers. Search by composer, title, or keyword or browse by composer. | |
| Percussion Orchestrations | |
| "Percussion Orchestrations is the first ever extensive online database of Timpani and Percussion requirements for orchestral repertoire, which currently contains 3345 works by 377 different composers, and is continually being added to."
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| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature | |||
| An index to literature about music, include musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. Also covers other fields as they relate to music, including, literature, drama, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and physics. Indexes parts of books (e.g. essays) as well as periodical articles including many foreign articles and books. Includes abstracts as well as author/title information. Covers 1967 to the present. | |||
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| Smithsonian Global Sound | |
| Encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. | |