Find an Article - Music Subject Guide
Find an Article about Music
Search one or more of the following databases
IIMP
Music Index
RILM
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
JSTOR
EBSCOhost
ERIC
Find article citations or full-text articles. Article citations give you information such as author, title of the article, and the journal (magazine) name to help find the full-text article.
All these databases are accessible from campus. If you want to access the materials from off-campus please read these instructions.
Music Databases
IIMP Full Text is a music journal resource with more than 720,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 430 international music periodicals, plus full text for 83 journals.
Subjects Covered
IIMP Full Text covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition. You can find articles on a diverse array of musical genres, from the liturgical chants of medieval monks to the eclectic sounds of contemporary alternative rock musicians.
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Search Tips: Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.) so that you can find the article in the library. |
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Music Index is a database that indexes more than 850 international music periodicals. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal subject list which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
This database contains citations for articles from 1978 to the present. If you want to research articles from earlier years, use the print edition of Music Index.
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Search Tips: If you are unsure of the spelling of a composer's name, choose "advanced" search mode and select quot;sounds like" under "word form options" (e.g. - "Ligety" will work for the proper spelling "Ligeti"). Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.) so that you can find the article in the library. |
RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature contains records in over 200 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. RILM currently contains nearly 300,000 entries. Approximately 20,000 new entries are added annually. RILM offers a broad international coverage base and it includes music related works from articles, books, bibliographies, dissertations, film & video to concert reviews and recording notes - provided the items are of scholarly interest. Subject areas include: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, librarianship, performance practice and notation, theory and analysis, pedagogy, liturgy, dance, criticism, music therapy, and interdisciplinary studies on music and various other fields, including literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, acoustics, aesthetics, anthropology, sociology, linguistics and semiotics, mathematics, philosophy, physiology, psychology, and physics.
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Search Tips: If you are unsure of the spelling of a composer's name, choose "advanced" search mode and select "sounds like" under "word form options" (e.g. - "Ligety" will work for the proper spelling "Ligeti"). Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.) so that you can find the article in the library. |
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Related Databases
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes the world's leading arts and humanities journals including articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more. The database contains citations of articles from 1980 to the present.
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Search Tips: Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.) so that you can find the article in the library. |
- next to citation means the library subscribes to the journal that contains that article. You can also limit your search by clicking on the subscriptions held by my library box in the Limit availability to: section of the search page.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas. JSTOR provides full-text articles for a number of music resources not covered in the music-specific databases.
EBSCOhost (Academic Search Premier)
Academic Search Premier is a good interdiciplinary database with a large number of full-text articles.
| Search Tips: Use the "Refine Search" section to limit your results to get only full-text, scholarly journals, etc. |
ERIC (Through EBSCOhost)
ERIC, sponsored by the US Department of Education, is the premier national bibliographic database of education literature. This is a good resource for music education materials.
ERIC consists of Resources in Education, which covers the document literature, consisting of research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books and Current Index to Journals in Education, which covers published journal literature from over 775 periodicals.
The database also includes the full text of ERIC Digest Records. These one- to two-page records, written specifically for teachers, administrators, and other practitioners, provide an overview of information on a given topic and supply references with more detailed information.
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Write down, email, or print all the information listed in the citation(s) (journal title, volume, number, year, pages, etc.) so that you can find the article in the library. |
For a listing of all databases (music and other), see our alphabetical listing of databases.
Take your citation(s) that you have written down or printed out
Example: Here is a citation from IIMP.
Harrison, John. "Deconstructing the Heroic Quest in 'The Love for Three Oranges.'" Opera Journal 31:5 (December 1998): 4-18
Opera Journal- title of the journal
31:5 - Volume number (31) followed by issue number (5)
(December 1998) - date of the issue
4-18 - page numbers
Journal, Magazine & Newspaper Title Search (online or in print)
Type the title to find journals, newspapers, annuals, etc. Search by journal title (Not the title of the article). In the example above you would search for Opera Journal.
If you search for Opera Journal you will get a two results in the catalog:
Opera Journal: INTERNET
Opera Journal: MAIN LIBRARY
This means that the journal is available online and physically in the library. When you go into the record that is marked INTERNET it will have a link to the online resource that has the journal along with the years that are available
Example:
Full text from International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text: 03/01/1996 to present
If the article is not available online in full-text (MAIN LIBRARY and/or MICROFORMS), write down the location and call number. Recent issues are located in the Current Periodical Room on the second floor of the library. Older issues are either bound and on the shelves by call number or on microfilm.
If you found an article that you really want that is not in the library, you can order it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Do not use ILL for articles you need tomorrow.
| Search Tip : Open a new window or tab in your browser while you are searching a database and look up the journal information at the same time you are looking at the citations. This will allow you to see if you can get the article in print or in full-text in another database. |
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