Electronic Research Tools:
Articles & More
(Including Journal or Newspaper
Articles & Recording or Performance Reviews)
The following music-related indexes represent only a small subset of the indexes and databases available at St. Olaf. Please consult the St. Olaf Libraries' Indexes: Articles & More page for a complete listing.
For off-campus access to online indexes and
databases, please consult our instruction
guide.
| Academic Search Premier | |
| This database provides access to over 8040 multi-disciplinary publications, many in full-text. Covers 1975 to present. | |
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| Art of the States | |
| Begun as a radio project to introduce American Music throughout Europe, this resource is now available as a web service. Includes audio streams, program notes, and links to related websites for a wide range of U.S. composers. | |
| Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online | |
| "DDM-Online presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories." | |
| DRAM | |
| "A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other important labels." | |
| GoogleScholar | |
| Google's database of scholarly materials. Caveat: Often leads to journal home pages which request payment for articles we may already have full-text or in print | |
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| Grove Music Online | |||
| This online version of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Also includes the New Grove Dictionary of Opera and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It offers keyword searching of articles, biographies, bibliographies, and contributors. You can also browse by article title, abbreviations, or contributors. | |||
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| International Index to Music Periodicals | |
| An index to a wide variety of music periodicals, some dated back to the late 1800s. Abstracts are available for articles dated 1996-present. Covers 1874-present | |
| International Index to the Performing Arts | |
| Indexes over 200 international performing arts periodicals, plus related articles and obituaries in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Abstracts are available for most of the articles dated 1998-present. Covers 1992-present. | |
| JSTOR | |
| An index to and full text of select, academic journals. | |
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| Music Index | |||
| The major index to periodical literature in the field of music. Indexes obituaries, book reviews, reviews of performances, and scholarly articles from over 300 music periodicals. Does not include abstracts. Covers 1975-present. | |||
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| Naxos Music Library | |
| Naxos Music Library is a collection of classical music. "It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000+ tracks". You can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. | |
| New York Times (1851 - 2004) | |
| Offers "full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue." | |
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| Percussion Orchestrations | |
| "Percussion Orchestrations is the first ever extensive online database of Timpani and Percussion requirements for orchestral repertoire, which currently contains 3345 works by 377 different composers, and is continually being added to."
Please contact a reference librarian for the password. |
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| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature | |||
| An index to literature about music, include musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. Also covers other fields as they relate to music, including, literature, drama, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and physics. Indexes parts of books (e.g. essays) as well as periodical articles including many foreign articles and books. Includes abstracts as well as author/title information. Covers 1967 to the present. | |||
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