Music

Music Databases - find articles and book chapters

These sources offer mostly articles and some book chapters from music journals and music books. *You CAN search both at once by selecting either resource, clicking on "choose index" above the search box, and selecting the other from the check list.

RILM/Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
(1800s - present) A comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Articles and more from current music journals, 1973- present

Multi-disciplinary databases

These large databases contain articles and other items on music, but cover many other subject areas as well. Discover searches JSTOR along with many other databases, so choose Discover for a larger amount of content and JSTOR for a more focused collection.

Discover This link opens in a new window
A combined database made up of many individual resources including the library catalog and the majority of our subject-specific databases.
Search the library catalog only (enter search terms and then limit) or dozens of databases together. A great place to start your research on almost any topic.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals and books in all subject areas, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor.