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Getting Started
Background Information
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowEmphasis 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 (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowOrganized geographically, this is a good starting point for ethnomusicology and comparative music studies.
- Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new windowHow to do research: project planning and strategies, methods, timelines, ethics, and more.
*Recommended:SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods.
Library collections: books, journal articles, streaming files
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Use Scholar OneSearch to search the Northeastern library's books, articles, audio and video from one search box.
Tip: You can paste the title, author, or DOI of a work into the search box to find a specific citation.
Interlibrary partnerships:
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If you need a book or article that's not in the NU Library, use ILLiad:
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Request a book or media (to pick up in Snell)
Key Music Resources (Books and Journal Articles)
- Bibliographie des Muskikschrifttums online( Bibliography of Musick online)An international and interactive bibliography of literature on music.
- 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.
- Directory of Open Access Journals in MusicOpen access journals are available for free public use and re-use. Search topics or explore publishing opportunities
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowMostly documentary and journalistic videos.
- Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new windowSome musicals are included in this collection of theater performance videos.
- DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) This link opens in a new windowDiverse American music, including roots/folk/jazz and more.
- Music Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new windowThis streaming site has separate collections of contemporary, jazz, classical, and Smithsonian Global Sound
- 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. Access is limited to 15 users at a time.
- 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.