Primary Music Databases & Article Indexes

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. If related to music, works in other fields, such as librarianship, lite...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    former interface

International Index to Music Periodicals, Full Text Edition (IIMP)
IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship availab...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Dates vary.

Music Index Online
The editor-librarians at Harmonie Park Press survey data from more than 690 international music periodicals and review new journals for pos...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950)
RIPM (Repertoire international de la presse musicale) provides access to the contents of European and American music periodicals published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Topics covered include ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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    former interface

RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources
RISM (Repertoire International des Sources Musicales/International Inventory of Musical Sources) provides online access to RISM series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Important Music Databases & Article Indexes

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
Supplemental URLs
    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary fulltext periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing a...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM-Indiana University)
An international database of completed and in-progress dissertations with abstracts....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

LexisNexis Academic
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis,
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
Supplemental URLs
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American Song

American Song is an eclectic collection of music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from America's past and present. The songs are by and about American Indians, miners, immig...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

Aria Database
A searchable database of opera arias with texts, translations, and MIDI files....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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ASCAP ACE title search
A searchable database of information about all compositions that appear in ASCAP's repertory....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Unrestricted Access

Bach Bibliography (Yo Tomita)
Contains some 19,000 bibliographic entries related to the life and music of J.S. Bach....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums
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BMI Repertoire Search
Search for information on song titles registered with BMI....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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CAIRSS (Computer-Assisted Information Retrieval Service System; U. Texas at San Antonio)
A bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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CANTUS
Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical Office....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Classics from the Silver Screen
A searchable database of classical music and opera used in films....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Concert life in nineteenth-century London
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Current bibliography (Society for Ethnomusicology)
Features a bibliography, videography, filmography, and discography of materials of interest to ethnomusicologists....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Hofmeister XIX
Also Known as: hofmeister monatsberichte
In 1829 the Leipzig music publisher Friedrich Hofmeister began publishing a series of monthly or bi-monthly catalogues of printed music, largely but not exclusively based on the products of publishers...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Index to Printed Music : Collections & Series (IPM)
Also Known as: Index to Printed Music : Collections & Series (IPM)
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Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective May 1, 2009!

International Music Score Library Project
IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
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ISI Citation Indexes (Web of Science)
Also Known as: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Web of Science, SSCI, SCI, AHCI,ISI
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    ISI Citation Indexes Tutorial
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Jazz Music Library
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Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music is an international undertaking to record, preserve and distribute a vast cross-section, comprising hundreds of outstanding pieces of American Jewish music ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Mozart Source Database
List of Mozart sources around the world; maintained by the Neue Mozart Ausgabe....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Music manuscript paper
Blank music papers in PostScript and PDF formats. All are for 8 1/2" x 11" paper (portrait orientation) unless otherwise noted....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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MuSICA (Music and Science Information Archive; U. California Irvine)
An index of the publication MuSICA Research Notes. Focus on music and behavior and cognitive/psychological aspects of music. Search by subject, issue, or article title and view full text....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Musica International Database of Choral Music
Contains information on 135,000 choral compositions....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Musical Borrowing: An annotated bibliography (Indiana University):
A bibliography of articles dealing with musical borrowing, transcription, variations, parody, etc....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Operabase
A searchable database of all things opera. View singers' schedules, search opera performances, opera houses, etc....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]

RoJaRo (Rock-Jazz-Roots)
An index of articles, discographies, and interviews covering all types of popular music. Comprises nearly 800,000 entries....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Themefinder: RISM Database of Musical Manuscripts in US Libraries
Search tool for 55,491 incipits from music manuscripts after 1600 contained in libraries of the United States of America. ...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur = Universal handbook of musical literature (Pazdirek)
Directory of music published in the nineteenth century...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archiv
Public domain music scores and sheet music....   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Related Music Databases & Article Indexes

Folk Literature of the Sephardic Jews
A multimedia archive of ballads and other oral literature in Judeo-Spanish collected from 1957 to 1993 by Samuel G. Armistead (University of California, Davis), the late Joseph H. Silverman (Universit...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
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Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    rlg interface 03/01/05

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]    [Add to PennTags]