Music Databases and Indexes
Music Databases | Related Databases | Indexes to Printed Music | Historical Indexes | Citation Indexes
Databases or indexes are the best way of identifying relevant journal articles and other useful materials and many are available full-text online. You are advised to use SuperSearch as the comprehensive gateway to resources and the sub-categories Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Music Therapy, Music in Australia are recommended. More about SuperSearch, from Researching Music tutorial, Faculty of Music, University of Melbourne.
If you already have a citation or know which articles you want, use the Music Journals A-Z list or Citation Linker tool.
Music Databases
Oxford Music - Grove Music Online - Encyclopedia. Quick Start Help & Guide
A Comparison of Five Music Periodical Indexes by Jamie Teot, Music 500 Midterm Exam Essay.
Related & Popular Databases
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Indexes to Printed Music and manuscripts
An online index for finding music scores printed in standard scholarly editions, historical collections and series. Each individual work in a collection is indexed, allowing retrieval by composer, title, collection as well as by specific performing forces.
Index to Renaissance Vocal Music in Collections - Compiled by Carol Ohlers, Scott Library, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
This index is limited to sacred and secular vocal music. Volumes in indexed collections that contain only instrumental music have been excluded as well as instrumental selections in indexed volumes
[Print] Collected editions, historical series & sets & monuments of music
[Print] Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music : a guide...
International Inventory of Musical Sources (RISM) aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
Historical Indexes
[Print] Analyses of nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, 1940-1985
[Print] The history of music : an index to the literature available ...
[Print] Music criticism : an annotated guide to the literature.
[Print] Music Index, 1949-
Citation Indexes
A citation index lets you find out where and by whom a paper has been cited.
Includes the following citaiton indexes:
* Science Citation Index Expanded®,
* Social Sciences Citation Index®,
* Arts & Humanities Citation Index®. - Guide to Citation Databases