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MUSC 103: Music, Meaning, and Society

Key Music Article Databases

Music Index Online

Publication coverage: 1970 - present (some backfile indexing for 1962-1969)
Articles from over 700 international music periodicals. Includes book, music recording, and performance reviews. Access to historiographic, ethnographic and musicological information. Topics include music personages, the history of music, forms and types of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments, and computer-produced music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
 
Publication coverage: 1967 - present
Access restricted to the Queen's community (4 user limit)
Comprehensive, scholarly, international index to music literature, from Western and Eastern classical to pop, folk, and jazz.

Other Related Databases

Academic Search Complete (multidisciplinary index to peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports.  Approximately 50% of journal titles contain full-text articles)

America: History and Life Canadian resource (covers also Indigenous populations in Canada, U.S., Mexico)

Bibliography of Indigenous Peoples in North America (covers Indigenous North American culture, history, and life)

Gender Studies Database (interdisciplinary topics related to gender studies, including music)

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance (selective articles with full-text)

JSTOR (electronic journal archive providing access to entire "backrun" of many core academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, business, and law, from v. 1 to within 2-5 years of current volume).

Oxford Reference Online - Music (Music collection component of Oxford Reference Online, a database of full-text e-book dictionaries, companions and Oxford reference works, 5-user limit)

Oxford Reference Online – Society and Culture (Society and Culture component of Oxford Reference Online, a database of full-text e-book dictionaries, companions and Oxford reference works, 5-user limit)

Other Music Databases

Canadian Music Periodical Index Canadian resource

Citations to articles on music in Canada, dating from the late-19th century to the present day, from 500 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines.
Find classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material. Publication coverage: 15th - 21st centuries.
Part of the Canadian Encyclopedia, offered free online by Historica Canada
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 
Access restricted to the Queen's community (3 user limit)
Popular music of all genres and periods, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music as well as popular music trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Publication coverage: 1900 to present
Grove Music Online 
Access restricted to the Queen's community (3 user limit)
Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.  Updated articles are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen.
Naxos Music Library 
Access restricted to the Queen's community (100 user limit)
Online listening access to more than 24,000 music recordings. NOTE: Check system requirements and settings.
Oxford Music Online
Access restricted to the Queen's community (3 user limit)
Online version of Grove Music Online (including The New Grove Dictionary of Opera), Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.  Ongoing additions of new material and updates to texts.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Access restricted to the Queen's community (5 user limit)
Audio files for published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and more.