Research Guides: Music: Find Articles

Essential Music Sources

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Database featuring content from publications about music and related subjects in all document types from around the world.
Music: Oxford Bibliography
Over 200 hundred peer-reviewed articles on music.
Oxford Music Online (Grove Music)
More than 8,000 articles about composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres.

Opera in Video
Offers hundreds of hours of streaming video of and about the most important opera performances, including full staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Coverage from 1933 to 2011.
Films on Demand
Streaming video service that provides access to more than 24,000 full-length educational films and over 250,000 film and news segments.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and news magazine content.
JSTOR
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.
Project MUSE
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Oxford Reference
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
CQ Researcher plus Archive
Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for locating scholarly literature. Searches scholarly articles, books, and other technical or research content. Often helpful for locating specific articles when you already know the title.