In many fields, research involves reading articles in scholarly journals or other scholarly collections. WARNING: You CANNOT search for articles in library online catalogs. However, you can use the online catalog to find out whether our library has a certain journal or other source by doing a title search for it.
Finding the best articles for your research is a complicated process in any field of knowledge. For serious music research, there is no easy one-step way to achieve it. Also, please be aware that not all music journals are available electronically.
The best way to begin your search for articles is to search for ARTICLE CITATIONS in MUSIC-SPECIFIC electronic abstracting and indexing databases. As far as we know, UNT subscribes to all that are currently available. GOOD NEWS: As of spring 2010, Music Index now links to many full-text resources through its new owner, EBSCOhost. This greatly increases its significance for musicological research. FURTHER GOOD NEWS: As of summer 2010, we are receiving RILM and RIPM from EBSCOhost. This means that they also link to many full-text resources. YOU CAN ALSO USE THE ONLINE CATALOG TO ACCESS MOST OF OUR FULL-TEXT RESOURCES VERY EFFICIENTLY. IF YOU WANT THE BEST ARTICLES, NOT THE ONES THAT ARE EASIEST TO GET, YOU MAY HAVE TO COME TO THE LIBRARY TO LOOK AT PRINT JOURNALS.
WARNING: the databases listed below are NOT web sites that are free for all on the Internet. They are PRODUCTS for which our university buys subscriptions. You must go in through our website to get the free access to which all UNT people are entitled. Authorized UNT users are allowed to access all of our subscription databases remotely by providing EUIDs and passwords.
Use the following music-specific databases to identify articles pertinent to your research. If full text is not provided, then search the sources of these articles in OUR ONLINE CATALOG to see whether we have them.
The following list is in order of importance for the field of musicology:
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature an international, abstracted bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines from music periodicals and other sources, with hundreds of thousands of entries; coverage: 1969-present, with frequent updates; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.
RIPM 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; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.
Music Index
indexes hundreds of music periodicals from various countries; coverage: 1973-present, with frequent updates; links to full text of journals through EBSCOhost.
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
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 we do not have.
Note: This is a FirstSearch database; for anyone familiar with OCLC, this IS the OCLC Online Union Catalog.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (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 Complete
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
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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.
Naxos Music
Library Jazz
The
recordings in Naxos Music Library Jazz
include famous Jazz Legends and Historicals, new selected titles of other
leading independent labels are added every month. Contains more than 3000 CDs
and new CDs are added every month.
Classical
Music Library
As its title indicates, this service focuses mainly on classical music, but
there are a few jazz offerings.
DRAM - Database of Recorded American
Music
DRAM is
a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand
streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner
notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. Continuing
in the tradition of DRAM's sister
company New World Records, one of DRAM's
primary focuses is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings
that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace, recordings that may
otherwise become lost or forgotten. Currently DRAM's
collection contains nearly 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive
set of 15 independent labels, and we are continually working to add more
content. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of
American music recordings by New World Records.
American Song
American Song will become the definitive source for
American roots music and pre-1960
American popular music. Included are
powerful recordings by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peggy
Seeger, Si Kahn, Lead Belly, Sleepy LaBeef, the New Lost City Ramblers, Otis
Clay, Eddy The Chief Clearwater, Nanci Griffith, The Lilly Brothers, Merle
Travis, Ma Rainey, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, William
Bunk Johnson, Duke Ellington, Sophie Tucker, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker,
Sarah Vaughn, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Big Joe Williams, Memphis Jug Band,
Roosevelt Sykes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chicago River Kings, Muddy Waters, Skip James,
Blind Willie McTell, Lonnie Johnson, Alberta Jones, Johnny Shines, Memphis
Minnie, Arthur Big Boy Crudup, Little Brother Montgomery, Speckled Red,
Edith Wilson, Earl Hines, Eddie Johnson, Bobby Bradford, Roscoe Mitchell,
Wadada Leo Smith, and hundreds more.
Opera in Video
Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important
opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews,
and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers,
conductors, and opera houses and are based on a works importance to the
operatic canon. The collection presents an overview of the most commonly
studied operas in music history, opera
literature, and performance classes. Multiple performances and stagings
worldwide of the major operas allow for analysis of stage design, vocal
techniques, roles, and musical
interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors. Performances
will cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th
century. Specially developed controlled vocabularies let users browse by
composer, genre, performer, ensemble, time period, and role.
Smithsonian Global Sound for
Libraries
Smithsonian Global Sound for Librariesﾮ
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. It
also includes music recorded around the
African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as
material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive
Research Centre for Ethnomusicology
(ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies. The collection
is an outgrowth of the vision and work of Folkways Records founder Moses Asch,
who created a veritable encyclopedia of the human experience of sound,
releasing more than 2,000 albums between 1948 and 1986, including those by
American folk icons such as Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, Pete Seeger, and
countless influential others.
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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
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USING FREE SITES ON 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. Following are some significant examples:
Online Resources for Music Scholars from Harvard University
A launchpad for serious music research
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
The British Library - Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - Tour
Images of illuminated manuscripts from many centuries
British Library Online Gallery, Turning the Pages-
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/musicmanu/index.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
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
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
