Research Guides: MUSI 002A: Music and Asian American Experiences (SC): Research Tools

Recommended Music Research Tools

Oxford Music Online
Covers all topics related to music, including musical instruments, compositional forms and scientific topics. Biographical entries cover composers, performers and writers. Offers links to related sites including sound archives.
Oxford Bibliographies Online - Music
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)
Covers material published in music and various other fields as they relate to music. Records appear in over a hundred languages. The majority of citations include abstracts. Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, Festschriften, films, and videos are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest.

ProQuest Music Database
This database, formerly known as "International Index to Music Periodicals" provides abstracts to music titles. Offers articles in full-text for over 80 periodicals. Covers all aspects of music including education, composition, theory and ethnomusicology. Covers 1874-present. Full-text begins in the mid-1990s-present.
ProQuest Performing Arts Database‎
This database, formerly known as "International Index to the Performing Arts" provides abstracts and full-text to journal articles. Covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry including dance, film, television, theater, opera, and broadcasting. Covers 1864-present.

The Music Index
Print index covering 1949-2002. Good to use as a supplement to online indexes for finding materials from the mid 20th-century.
RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales
This International Inventory of Musical Sources contains some 700,000 entries describing mostly historical music manuscripts with the majority originating before 1800. The original sources are available from libraries, music archives, and private collections world wide. Obtaining sources is possible as these institutions can often be approached for reproductions. You will want to work with your music librarian and give yourself plenty of lead time.

Alexander Street Press Music and Dance Online
Music and Dance Online delivers the largest, most diverse catalog of music content in the world for students, scholars, and patrons of the arts. The multimedia resource features works from thousands of respected partners, covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.

WorldCat
A catalog of the materials held by libraries worldwide. Includes books, scores and recordings.
JSTOR
Articles from the top journals in most disciplines. Coverage is through 3 to 5 years ago.
ProQuest Research Library
Citations & full-text articles in a variety of disciplines.
Web of Science
The Social Sciences Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index.