Databases for Music

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Music & Performing Arts combines music audio and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists.

Medieval-present
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Music Index covers more that 850 music periodicals from more that 40 countries.

1975-present
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Nine collections of music recordings (over 14 million tracks) and performance videos (over 3,600) from Alexander Street Press, including classical, jazz, folk, world, and popular music and dance.

Medieval period-present
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RILM includes all formats of scholarly works--articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, and conference proceedings.

1967-present
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Allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past.

1800s-1960
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Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays.

1800s-present
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Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more.

1905-present
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A rich collection of influential performances and documentaries spanning eras and demonstrating classical music’s dynamic evolution.

Medieval period-present
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A comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings (approximately 100,000 albums) that users can listen to online.

Medieval period-present
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An additional 2,300+ videos of classical performances, masterclasses, and lectures.

Medieval period-present
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Contemporary World Music contains over 3.5 million tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions of the world.

1900-present
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Digital Theatre+ gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials.

1970s-present
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Containing 27,000 entries and over 6,000 new entries, the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music includes 50% more material than the print Third Edition, and is part

1900-present
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 The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory, and cultures of music aroun

Ancient times-present
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The current release (2013) includes 10,752 albums and 133,660 tracks.

1920s-present
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

1975-present
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 Metropolitan Opera On Demand includes more than 800 full-length Met performances.

1936-present
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An international index to choral scores for documentary research and pedagogy.

1100s-present
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Limited to 10 simultaneous users

Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music available online.

1150-present
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Limited to 15 simultaneous users

Naxos Music Library Jazz offers close to 60,000 tracks of jazz from over 5,200 albums, with over 7,000 jazz artists represented.

1900s-present
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Limited to 5 simultaneous users

Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.

1990-present
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Covers the New York Times late edition (East Coast) (1980-present), the New York Times Magazine (1997-present), and the New York Times Book Review (1997-present).

1980-present
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Opera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.

Renaissance-present
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Organ Cinema is an ever-expanding filmed encyclopedia of the organ and its history and repertoire, created by Fugue State Films and the Royal College of Organists.

2008 - present
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Oxford Bibliographies in Music provides annotated lists of reliable resources for a variety of topics in music.

2011-present
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The Oxford Companion to Music offers over 8,000 articles across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms an

1400s-present
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The Oxford Dictionary of Music brings together over 12,500 entries covering musical subjects of all kinds including entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms,

Ancient times-present
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Oxford Music Online provides access to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which includes The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary

Ancient times-present
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This database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals.

1990s-present
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Recent Researches in Music Online provides access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series, scholarly performance editions of music.

2018-present
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The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2022) includes 3,112 albums, equalling 45,176 tracks.

1900s-present
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