Key Resources
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Classical Scores Library Volume 1 (Alexander Street Press)Contains classical music scores in 21 genres. Pages can be printed and annotated. Create a playlist!
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Entertainment Industry Magazine ArchiveUS and UK trade magazines from the vaudeville era to 2000. Includes Billboard, Variety, Broadcasting, Melody Maker and much more
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Ethnic NewsWatchInterdisciplinary, multilingual (English and Spanish) and full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. It includes the Bay State Banner, an independent newspaper primarily geared toward the interests of Boston's African-American community.
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Historical Black Newspapers (ProQuest)A subset of Proquest Historical, these nine newspapers from major US urban centers are fully searchable with full text page images. Dates vary but mostly cover early-mid 20th century.
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Historical Newspapers (Proquest)United States newspapers, mostly from the early to late 20th century.
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Oxford Music OnlineIncludes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost)Offers citations and abstracts of articles on international subjects including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance and music therapy. Scholarly journals included. Covers 1969 – the present.
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RIPM Jazz PeriodicalsAn essential, unique collection of 105 American Jazz periodicals, published between 1914 and 2006.
Getting Started
Get Started with Your Research:
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Use Scholar OneSearch to search the Northeastern library's books, articles, audio and video from one search box.
You can paste the title, author, or DOI of a work into the search box to find a specific citation.
Scholar OneSearch Tutorials have helpful information about using words, phrases and wildcards, and using Boolean operators. to improve your search.
Next steps:
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Look for background information in the online encyclopedia Oxford Music Online.
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If it's not in the NU Library, use ILLiad:
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Request a book or media (to pick up in Snell)
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Explore the resources on this and related guides (for example, Anthropology, Reframing the Music Classroom, Streaming Media Collections) or view all guides.
- Getting Help
- Ask a librarian for help.
- View these tutorials to assist with using Northeastern Library resources
- Review SAGE Research Methods for research strategies. *Recommended: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods
Library Recording Studios
For Fall 2021, the Library’s Recording Studios’ are available by appointment.
Faculty may collaborate with the Studios across the curriculum to help plan and implement media-based assignments and teach skills. See our Teaching with the Recording Studios Remotely page for more information. For helpful teaching and learning support, you may also consult the Studios’ Digital Media Toolkit.
For in-depth assistance with recording software, staff will be happy to schedule consultation and instructional sessions with you via Zoom or Teams.
Questions and appointments, contact dmcstudios@northeastern.libanswers.com.
Library Streaming Music Resources
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Music Online:Jazz Music LibraryA vast music library, with recordings from important labels like Blue Note, Impulse, and Verve, not all tracks may be in Scholar OneSearch.
Our Streaming Media Guide lists all streaming media resources in all subjects available through the library.
