Guides: Music : Databases, Journals, and Articles

Music Subject Specialist

Katie DeVet, Ph.D.

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University Library
Document Delivery Office
Library 130
k.e.devet@ttu.edu

(806)834-0382

Librarian for Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts and Film Studies

Rob Weiner

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Subjects: Art, Film Studies, Music, Sequential Art, Theatre and Dance

Databases and Sound Collections

Off-campus access: Use the links provided here or start at the Library website instead of going directly to a database or journal’s website. The Library website will prompt you to log in via eRaider to confirm you have access to resources through TTU subscriptions. If you miss that step, the databases won't recognize that you’re affiliated with TTU and will likely ask you to pay to view articles.

Music Databases
Complete A to Z list of music databases

International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text This link opens in a new window
A database for all things music covering the scholarly to the popular. Indexing and abstracts for hundreds of international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and full text for more than 140 indexed journals.
Music Online: African American Music Reference This link opens in a new window
50 thousand+ pages of biographies, lyrics, images, etc. covering the history and culture of African American music.
Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Classical music resource covering tens of thousands of licensed recordings.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
(Vol. I-IV) Provides more than 8,000 scores of the classical canon as well as lesser-known contemporary works. Collections encompass all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection enhances the study of music history, performance, composition and theory for a variety of scholars.
Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries This link opens in a new window
A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month.
Oxford Music Online - General This link opens in a new window
Access and search Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
International coverage on a variety of topics including musicology, theory and analysis, pedagogy, criticism, and more.
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals This link opens in a new window
International annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, covering approximately 1800 to 1950.

Oxford Bibliographies Online Music
Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations. This one is directly related to music.

European & North American Music Periodicals (RIPM Series) This link opens in a new window
This database is a unique collection of primary source music periodicals not covered in RIPM Retrospective Index with Full Text. This new collection is international in scope and not available in any other online resource or in any library.

Interdisciplinary Resources

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Designed for academic institutions, this database provides complete coverage of multidisciplinary academic journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to the highest-quality academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Streaming Video Collections
List of streaming video resources available via TTU Libraries

Journals and Articles

The TTU Libraries provide hundreds of journals and popular magazines about music in digital and print formats.

Selected Music Journals
List of music journals accessible through the Library's online and print collections

E-Journals A-Z This link opens in a new window
Search for specific journals or magazines by title

Selected Music E-Journals
A list of selected music related e-journals

Grants

Foundation Directory Online This link opens in a new window
Provides access to an unprecedented wealth of timely, comprehensive information on grantmakers and their grants. Included is a searchable database of the entire universe of over 92,000 foundations, corporate giving programs, and grantmaking public charities.