Wired Musicology Page

This page is intended to help you use electronic resources for musicological research.   

In many fields, research involves reading articles in scholarly journals. WARNING: You CANNOT search for articles in library online catalogs. You can use the online catalog to find out whether our library has a certain journal by doing a title search.

The major way to find articles is to search electronic abstracting and indexing databases. WARNING: these are NOT web sites that are free for all on the Internet. They are PRODUCTS for which our university buys subscriptions.  Authorized UNT users are allowed to access all of our subscription databases remotely by providing EUIDs and passwords. 

Use these music-specific databases to identify articles pertinent to your research.  The following list is in order of importance for the field of musicology:  

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature via FirstSearch   an international, abstracted bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines from music periodicals and other sources, with over 200,000 entries; coverage: 1969-present, with monthly updates 

RIPM via FirstSearch    Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950. Published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, UNESCO’s International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies.

Music Index
indexes ca. 775 music periodicals from various countries; coverage: 1976-present, with frequent updates; links to full text of journals provided by JStor

International Index to Music Periodicals
indexes and abstracts ca. 350 recent music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus music articles from the New York Times and Washington Post; also includes 130,000 retrospective citations back to 1874; coverage: 1874-present with quarterly updates

Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae  [temporarily unavailable; we are sorry for the inconvenience]
Complete, searchable index to all volumes in the Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae (CMM) series of the American Institute of Musicology, with biographical information on composers and their works included in the series, bibliographic information, and source material for further research. CD-based using Citrix

MULTI-DISCIPLINARY SOURCES POSSIBLY USEFUL FOR MUSIC RESEARCH:

VERY IMPORTANT:
WorldCat 
A super online catalog of more than 35 million entries describing items owned by libraries around the world, with information on which libraries own the items; includes musical scores and sound recordings; does not include articles; use this resource to initiate inter-library loan requests for books and scores.  
Note:  This is a FirstSearch database; for anyone familiar with OCLC, this IS the OCLC Online Union Catalog.

Digital Dissertations (Dissertation Abstracts)  bibliographic citations for doctoral dissertations and master's theses in all fields completed at over 1,000 accredited colleges and universities worldwide, with emphasis on U.S. schools; abstracts included from 1980 forward; for pre-1980 abstracts, see print version in General Reference

Academic Search Premier
Scholarly collection providing full-text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc. Full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications; abstracts and indexing for nearly 4,150 scholarly journals with many dating back to 1984. An EBSCOhost database coming to us via TexShare

Humanities Abstracts   
Cites articles from more then 350 English-language periodicals in the field of archaeology and classical studies, art and photography, folklore, general scholarship, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion and theology

SUBSCRIPTION STREAMING AUDIO SERVICES:

Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library allows UNT users to stream a wide variety of classical, jazz, new age, and world music. Please be sure to click on the red “Log Out” button on the upper right hand of the screen when you are finished using Naxos. 

Classical Music Library
As its title indicates, this service focuses mainly on classical music, but there are a few jazz offerings.

GROVE:
Grove Music Online
The electronic version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, incorporating the New Grove Dictionary of  Opera and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

USING THE INTERNET FOR SERIOUS MUSIC RESEARCH

There are many ways to find good sites on the Internet.  One is to use human-selected collections of links.  The best ones are expertly prepared and will efficiently take users to pertinent sites with high-quality content, possibly saving them hours of surfer frustration. 

These general academic sites cover a variety of topics in music:

Worldwide Internet Music Resources from Indiana University Music Library
A vast, selective list of links organized into 9 broad categories, each with many subdivisions.

Music Resources from Sibelius Academy, "the only music university in Finland"
A vast, selective list of links organized into 18 useful categories; keyword-searchable.

DW3 Classical Music Resources
A large, searchable meta-list created by Yale Fineman of Duke University Music Library

Internet Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University
A launchpad for serious music research

Music at UCC [National University of Ireland]: Web Resources for Study & Research in Music
Meta-list organized mainly by historical periods, from University College, Cork

Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
from Indiana University; includes Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology and several research sites

Historical Research in Europe:  a guide to archives and libraries
from the Center for European Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

MEDIEVAL MUSIC:

Gregorian Chant Home Page
An important site for chant research, with useful interdisciplinary links

CANTUS  A Database for Gregorian Chant
Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the Divine Office

La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
Modern scores and facsimiles of original manuscripts

Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
"The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an evolving database of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance."

Abbaye de Solesmes
From the abbey renowned for spearheading the revival of Gregorian chant in modern times

THEMA
Transcriptions of 14 Latin theoretical treatises

The British Library - Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - Tour
Images of illuminated manuscripts from many centuries

The British Library:  Collections
With a new link:  Online Gallery, Turning the Pages-  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/digitisation6.html
including images of medieval manuscripts allowing the visitor to turn the pages and magnify selected sections

RENAISSANCE MUSIC:

RELICS Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
a vast database of manuscript images, including music, from St. John's University and St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, MN; includes the Renaissance and much more

Three sites from the Society for Creative Anachronism:
SCA Renaissance Dance Homepage

SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage

SCA Minstrel Homepage

BAROQUE MUSIC:

Arto Wikla's Music Page
An early music site featuring information about early instruments and instrument tablatures, with important links for early music research, especially Baroque

CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC MUSIC:

The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies  from San Jose State University

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY:

The Society for Ethnomusicology

Guide to Programs in Ethnomusicology
from the Society for Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music  an important ethnomusicology portal from the University of Washington

Ethnomusicology Resources on the Web
a portal from Eric Charry at Wesleyan University

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHIC GUIDE
from the University of California at Santa Barbara; a large bibliography of print resources

Ethnomusicology
a tutorial from Middlebury College Library

British Forum for Ethnomusicology
"a UK society devoted to the study of music and dance from all parts of the world"

Home Page
UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology
the journal; a website providing information about it with sample full-text articles

PROGRAM NOTES AND ANALYSES:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/music/analyses.htm
A Guide to Musical Program Notes and Analyses by Stephen M. Fry

HUMANITIES COMPUTING:

Voice of the Shuttle
A large humanities computing site with important links in several disciplines, the Music and Dance Page covering classical music topics and the Media Page covering popular music