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Music Databases

Cambridge Companions to Music This link opens in a new window
Consists of a series of individual volumes on composers, instrument types or specialized music subjects. Each title contains authoritative and comprehensive essays, providing both reference and general information.
Daniels Orchestral Music Online This link opens in a new window
Orchestral Music Online is an orchestral music finder tool that provides: information on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers; searching by composer, title, or keyword; advanced searching by duration, instrumentation, chorus-type, and soloist; external links to music publishers, program notes, recordings, etc.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Music Online contains Grove Music Online--featuring more than 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies--The Oxford Companion to Music--offering more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments, notation, forms and genres--and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) Source This link opens in a new window
Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 6,305 texts including 1,105 aria texts.

Finding Articles

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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Access to thousands of magazines, newspapers, and scholarly, peer-reviewed journals in a wide range of subjects.
HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window
HathiTrust is a collaborative of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of over 17 million titles digitized from libraries around the world.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides access to historical coverage of scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines. Coverage goes back to the first issue (some as far back as the 1800s), but does not include the most recent issues (usually last 3-5 years).
MLA International Bibliography on EBSCO This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Modern Language Association, this resource provides access to scholarly journal articles, books and dissertations on the subjects of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and dramatic arts, music, and much more.
ProQuest Central via NC LIVE This link opens in a new window
The ultimate cross-disciplinary research tool, ProQuest Central brings together 30 of our most highly used databases to create the largest single academic research resource available today.

Music Journals

Click on the link below and select appropriate journal titles that might be useful for your research.
List of Music related journals

Every Noise at Once

From their website: "Every Noise at Once is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 6,069 genre-shaped distinctions by Spotify"

Genre Research
Allows you to research artists associated with music genres and subgenres.
Genre Popularity by Year (1960-2023)
Generated from Spotify data based on year songs were produced.