Music Databases
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- Naxos Music Library Audio / Video Naxos
- Sound recordings of Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, New Age and Chinese music. Includes a music glossary, opera synopses and opera libretti.
- Smithsonian Global Sound Audio / Video Alexander Street Press
- Sound recordings of music from American Folk, Blues, Africa, Bluegrass, Country, American Indian, Jazz, and more. Includes recordings from Folkways, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.
- Oxford Companion to Music Full Text Oxford University Press
- Definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles.
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Full Text Oxford University Press
- Thousands of entries on musical terms, works, composers, librettists, musicians, singers, and orchestras.
- Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera Full Text Oxford University Press
- Plot synopses and first performance details, bibliographies of works about opera, entries on singers, definitions and discussions of technical terms and operatic styles.
- Who's Who in Opera Full Text Oxford University Press
- Plot synopses for over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic role, including its creator and notable performers.
- ARTstor Image ARTstor
- Digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images. Interdisciplinary guides
- Infotrac Fine Arts and Music Collection Full Text Thomson Gale
- Collection of 200 full-text periodicals covering different types of art and expression. It provides broad coverage of the arts, from music and music theory to drama and the performing arts. It also provides content in the visual arts and art history.
- Academic OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale
- Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources covering physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.
- Academic Search Elite Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 3,400 journals including full text for over 2,000. Some publications back to 1985. Multi-disciplinary including the social sciences, humanities, sciences, education, and more.
- InfoTrac OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale
- Indexes over 9,200 titles including full text for over 5,156. Some titles back to 1980. Multidisciplinary and updated daily.
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- Expanded Academic ASAP Full Text Thomson Gale
- Indexes over 3,880 publications on a wide range of topics including full text for over 3,500, some from 1980.
- MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.
- Dissertation abstracts Index only OCLC - FirstSearch
- Indexes over two million doctoral dissertations and master's theses as far back 1861.
- JSTOR Full Text JSTOR
- For older articles. Contains back runs of core scholarly journals, some as far back as 1890. Does not include more recent issues.
- Dissertations and Theses - Full text Full Text ProQuest
- Includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format.
- SAGE Premium Publications Online Full Text Sage
- Search full text journals in the fields of business, humanities, social science, science, and technology.
- Highwire Press Full Text Highwire Press
- Free, full text, scientific and scholarly journal articles on a wide array of subjects.