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Music
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Music Databases
IPA Source
IPA Source is a library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Music Index (EBSCO)
Guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. Contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry, as well as book reviews, obituaries, and news.
Music Database (ProQuest)
Idexes and provides full-text for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries dating back to 1874. Subjects covered include music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. Formerly known as International Index to Music Periodicals.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (EBSCO)
Database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950. RIPM currently indexes the contents of 140 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCO)
Contains over 620,000 music related items including articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more.
RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 (EBSCO)
Comprehensive index and guide to music manuscripts containing more than 657,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries.
Other Useful Databases
Education Source (EBSCO)
Most complete collection of full-text education journals including an international array of English-language periodicals, monographs, yearbooks, and more. Covers education from early childhood to higher education.
ERIC: Education Resource Information Center (EBSCO)
An online library of education research and information which contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.
JSTOR - Journal Storage (ITHAKA)
JSTOR includes academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
NDSU subscribes to the following archival journal collections: Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV, VII, and VIII, as well as the Language and Literature and Life Sciences collections. For more information on collection subject coverage and title lists, please visit http://about.jstor.org/journals.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.
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M - Music/Scores
ML - Literature on Music
MT - Instruction and Study of Music
Electronic Books
Cambridge Companions Online (Cambridge University Press)
Detailed guides to authors, composers, philosophers, genres, various literatures and other fields of study, providing context and analysis for a thorough introduction. Includes Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics, Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture and Companions in Music.
Find Biographies, Dictionaries, and Encyclopedias
Electronic
Grove Music Online (Oxford)
Encyclopedia articles from The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and others, including The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Includes sound examples. This resource is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Detailed information about many operas.
In Print
Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
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Main Library Reference ML105 .B16 2001 v. 1-6
Collected editions, historical series & sets & monuments of music : a bibliography
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George R. Hill, Norris L. StephensCall Number:
Main Library Reference ML113 .H55 1997
Encyclopedia of popular music
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compiled & edited by Colin LarkinCall Number:
Main Library Reference ML102.P66 G84 1998 v. 1-8
Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians
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edited by Don Michael RandelCall Number:
Main Library Reference ML100 .H36 1999
Harvard dictionary of music
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Main Library Reference ML100 .H37 2003
New Grove dictionary of music and musicians
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edited by Stanley Sadie ; executive editor, John Tyrrell.Call Number:
Main Library Reference ML100 .N48 2001 v. 1-29
New Grove dictionary of musical instruments
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edited by Stanley SadieCall Number:
Main Library Reference ML102.I5 N48 1984 v. 1-3
Thematic catalogues in music : an annotated bibliography
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by Barry S. Brook and Richard VianoCall Number:
Main Library Main Stacks ML113 .B86 1997
Digital Collections
Features 53 digital collections from the Library of Congress's Music Division including videos, scores, manuscripts, photographs, and more.
Still in progress, the archive comprises more than 1.3 million pages, including almost 14,000 printed programs, marked conducting scores, business documents, and photographs. When completed, the online collection will contain every document in the New York Philharmonic Archives from 1842 through 1970,
Open Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
Curated by a community of music scholars, students, teachers and librarians, the Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books and music scores from the world’s digital collections.
Find Scores and Collected Works
Find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information.
"Sharing the world's public domain music."
Find Streaming Music
Naxos Music Library (Naxos Digital Services)
Music streaming database offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from classical, jazz and world music labels. This resource is limited to 15 simultaneous users.
Jazz Music Library (Alexander Street Press)
A collection of streaming jazz which includes thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (Alexander Street Press)
Streaming music database offers music from around the world. Genres include folk, bluegrass, blues, Cajun/Zydeco, Caribbean, Latin, reggae and more.
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Maddison Melquist, Humanities Librarian
Email: maddison.melquist@ndsu.edu
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