RILM Quick Search
Key Music Resources (Text-based)
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Business Source Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowUse for music industry information post-2000 (where Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive leaves off).
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Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowHundreds of thousands of pages of classical music scores. Pages can be printed and annotated.
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Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowUS and UK trade magazines (1880-2000) covering the vaudeville era to the internet era. Includes Billboard, Variety, Broadcasting, Melody Maker and much more
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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowEncyclopedic-type information, includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowOffers 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 Periodicals This link opens in a new windowFacsimiles of 105 full text American jazz journals published between 1914 and 2006. Significant journals include, among others, Cadence, Down Beat, Mississippi Rag, and Record Changer. Images, advertisements included.
Scores and sheet music
See also resources BY MUSICAL GENRE in the menu above.
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Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowHundreds of thousands of pages of classical music scores. Pages can be printed and annotated.
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IMSLPAd-supported and crowd-sourced library of musical scores and sheet music.
Key Audio and Video Resources
Our Streaming Media Guide lists all streaming media resources in all subjects available through the library.
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Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowMostly documentary and journalistic videos.
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Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowSome musicals are included in this collection of theater performance videos.
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DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new windowDiverse American music, including roots/folk/jazz and more.
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Music Online (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThis streaming site has separate collections of contemporary, jazz, classical, and Smithsonian Global Sound
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Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowOver 85,000 tracks, emphasizing classical, but also including world music, jazz, folk, and more, available for streaming.
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Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new windowin partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Background:
Oxford Music Online
Emphasis on classical music: encyclopedia-type articles about music history, instruments, technology, and people. At its core is the esteemed Grove Music Online, formerly Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Organized geographically, this is a good starting point for ethnomusicology and comparative music studies.
SAGE Research Methods
How to do research: project planning and strategies, methods, timelines, ethics, and more.
*Recommended: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods.
Library collections: books, journal articles, streaming files
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