Scope & Content Note
This page is designed to help you find scholarly articles, journals, article databases with music-related information. Use this as a starting point or browsing tool. As always, consult Databases A-Z list for complete holdings information, and when uncertain, ask at the Music and Dramatic Arts Library service desk. Remember: This is merely a selection of featured scholarly resources. Visit the catalog or ask a librarian for more choices.
Scholarly Literature Databases
- Music Index
Includes articles covering classical, jazz, popular, folk, and world music, including musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, music education, and the music industry
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Includes citations and abstracts for journal articles, essays, Festschriften, dissertations, books, and scholarly reviews on music and related disciplines.
- RIPM with Full Text
Includes articles, biographies, and various primary source materials covering the study of music and musical life from 1760 to 1966.
- RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)The Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) documents extant musical sources worldwide: manuscripts, printed music editions, writings on music theory, and libretti that are found in libraries, archives, churches, schools, and private collections.
- RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale)A cross-genre index of visual sources of music, dance, and theatre. Database records contain descriptions and images of visual objects featuring music, dance, theatre and opera-related topics or content. The content includes depictions of instruments, musicians, performers, music patrons, music notation, performance venues and more.
- Recent Researches in Music OnlineFull text access to Recent Research in Music series from 2018 to the present
- Oxford Music Online
Comprehensive encyclopedia of Western art music (classical music), with general coverage of jazz, non-Western, and folk music. Access for 10 users at a time.
- JSTORScholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology.
- Academic Search Premier
Includes articles from scholarly journals and popular magazines covering a wide variety of disciplines with the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Select Scholarly Journals
Select Scholarly Journals in Music
- Journal of the American Musicological SocietyJournal of the American Musicological Society publishes scholarship from a broad array of musical inquiry: from historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and organology, to pedagogy, performance practice, aesthetics and hermeneutics, ethnomusicology, gender and sexuality, popular music, and cultural studies.
- Journal of Research in Music EducationJournal of Research in Music Education comprises reports of peer-reviewed original research related to music teaching and learning. The wide range of topics includes various aspects of music pedagogy, history, and philosophy, and addresses vocal, instrumental, and general music at all levels, from early childhood through adult.
- Journal of Music TheoryThe Journal of Music Theory fosters conceptual and technical innovations in abstract, systematic musical thought and cultivates the historical study of musical concepts and compositional techniques. The journal publishes research with important and broad applications in the analysis of music and the history of music theory as well as theoretical or metatheoretical work that engages and stimulates ongoing discourse in the field. While remaining true to its original structuralist outlook, the journal also addresses the influences of philosophy, mathematics, computer science, cognitive sciences, and anthropology on music theory.
- Popular MusicPopular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject - from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global music industry, to how particular pieces of music are put together. The journal includes all kinds of popular music, whether rap or rai, jazz or rock, from any historical era and any geographical location.
- EthnomusicologyThe journal's scholarly articles represent current theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields, while playing a central role in expanding the discipline in the United States and abroad. This journal is intended for a diverse audience including musicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, cultural studies scholars, musicians, and others.
