Databases - RS 3040: History of Christianity - Music Resources - Walker Library at Middle Tennessee State University

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Music Periodicals Database Full-text
Music journal resource with more than 770,000 articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

International bibliography of scholarship in music and related disciplines, 1967 to present. Limited to 8 simultaneous users.

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Music Index with Full Text (EBSCO database)

Indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, and news.

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JSTOR
Complete full text (page images) for back issues of various leading scholarly journals.
Dissertations & Theses Global from ProQuest
Index to dissertations and theses published in the United States and around the world, with many in full-text.

See ProQuest's LibGuide for more information and database help.
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
International, annotated index with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1760 and 1966. Includes full text links.

RIPM indexes the contents of 140 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more. RIPM offers more than 5,000 English-language translations of articles from journals in other languages.
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RIDIM - Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale
An international database of images/artworks depicting music and the arts.

Additional Music Databases

Arts & Humanities Full Text
Full-text journals and magazines covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Part of the ProQuest Art, Design and Architecture Collection. See Detailed Description for more information.
African American Music Reference
Chronicles the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.

• Full text from major reference works
• Biographies and personal narratives from oral histories
• Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources
cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and
blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Full text, primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, 1880-2015. Provides complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines.

Digital copies of complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines, from their inception to 2015. Subject coverage includes film industry, music business, rock and pop, jazz and blues, theater, television, and radio.
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Music Online (from Alexander Street)
Cross-searches several music databases for text, video, and audio.

Searches African American Music Reference, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library and The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online. Includes streaming audio.
Classical Music Reference Library
Comprehensive classical music reference database; includes Baker's music dictionary series.

Title List (Excel file)
Oxford Reference: Music
Online editions of four music reference sources, including The Oxford Companion to Music.