Guides: Music: Databases & Journals

Library Databases

Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos.
Choral Public Domain Library
Find and download free scores, texts, translations, and information about composers. This site specializes in choral music.
Grove Music Online
Grove Music only allows 3 users to simultaneously access an article. Please download the PDF or close out the browser when you are finished with an article. Offers scholarly perspectives on a wide range of topics: musical concepts, music history, compositional practice, and more. Includes biographies, images, musical examples, and links to audio and video.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive classical music online streaming library containing titles spanning medieval music to modern, jazz, electronic, world music, pop, rock, and more. It includes compose biographies, glossary of musical terms, opera libretti and synopses, and more.

Academic OneFile
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
OneFile: Fine Arts
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering the fine arts such as drama, music, art history and filmmaking. Exclusive features, including Topic Finder, InterLink, and a mobile-optimized interface, support and enhance the search experience.
Formerly called Fine Arts and Music Collection
Sage Journals Online
A searchable collection of scholarly online journals published by Sage, covering humanities, natural science, education, fine arts, music, and social science

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