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

1975-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.

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

19th century-present
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Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings.

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

20th Century
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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 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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An international index to choral scores for documentary research and pedagogy.

12th century-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 7 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.

1900's-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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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, along with The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, provide unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.

Ancient Times - 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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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

1400's-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 - PresentT
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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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The latest release of Smithsonian Global Sound (2022) includes 3,112 albums, equalling 45,176 tracks.

20th century
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