UMGC Library: Music: Resources

Recommended Databases for Music

Academic Search Ultimate
Arts, humanities, science, social sciences, business, and technology journals, ebooks, and other resources from 1887 - present.
MasterFILE Premier
Full-text articles, reference book entries, primary source documents, and more, in a variety of subject areas, from 1975 - present.
JSTOR
Articles and books from many subject areas (anthropology, art, business, education, history, literature, science, etc.) from the 1900s - present.
Humanities Source Ultimate
Subjects include archaeology, the arts, communications, gender studies, history, journalism, literature, philosophy, and religion.
OmniFile Full Text Mega
Multi-disciplinary resource that covers several core subjects, including art, education, ethnic studies, history, humanities, law, social sciences, technology, and women's studies.
Scopus
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.
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Oxford Music Reference
More than 69,000 concise definitions and in-depth, specialist encyclopedic entries on the wide range of subjects within the broad field of music.

Petrucci Music Library - International Music Score Library Project
A collection of musical scores and recordings in the public domain.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
The nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution with spoken word, instruction, and sounds from around the world.
National Jukebox
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress
Library of Congress - Performing Arts Encyclopedia
Music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress
The Society for Ethnomusicology
The Society for Ethnomusicology's website.

Enthnomusicology Review
A student-run journal on topics related to musical practice. Articles are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including ethnomusicology, musicology, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
Empirical Musicology Review
An open access peer-reviewed music journal.
The Journal of Music and Meaning
A peer-reviewed journal for multidisciplinary research on music and meaning.
Music and Practice
A peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of practices in music.
Sound Effects
An international, interdisciplinary journal of sound and sound experience.
Current Research in Jazz
Original jazz research that is informed by musical and historical knowledge.
Journal of Jazz Studies
An open-access online journal published by the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers.

For more OER Resources (including multidisciplinary and textbooks), see the Open Educational Resources LibGuide