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Grovemusic click for database information
Oxford Music Online is a new gateway that offers users the ability, for the first time ever, to access and cross-search the vast resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. ... (more info)
This database does not support SimpleSearch Music Online click for database information
With Music Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search all of the... (more info)
This database does not support SimpleSearch Classical Music Library click for database information
Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource-a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes ten... (more info)
This database does not support SimpleSearch Music Index Online click for database information
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for possible inclu... (more info)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature click for database information
Citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. This file is produced by the Repertoire Internationa... (more info)
This database does not support SimpleSearch RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals click for database information
international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in seventeen countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. ... (more info)

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Academic Search Premier click for database information
Provides full text for nearly 1,560 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals... (more info)
International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text click for database information
IIPA covers nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts. Subjects include dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance... (more info)
JSTOR click for database information
Contains the full text of over 169 journals available from JSTOR.... (more info)
Project Muse click for database information
Full text of articles published in over 300 journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences mathematics, and many others.... (more info)
ProQuest Newspapers click for database information
Includes ProQuest Newsstand, the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times. ProQuest Newsstand contains the full text of 300+ U.S. and international newspapers... (more info)
This database does not support SimpleSearch Smithsonian Global Sound click for database information
Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural tra... (more info)
This database does not support SimpleSearch Web of Science click for database information
The ISI Web of Science is the Web interface for institutional sitewide access to the ISI Citation Databases, which cover over 8,000 international jour... (more info)
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