Databases
Quick Links
The following music-related resources represent only a small subset of the databases available at St. Olaf. Please consult the St. Olaf Libraries' Databases page for a complete listing.
For off-campus access to online indexes and databases, consult this guide.
Quick Links
- Music Index
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
- Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online)
- WorldCat
| Academic Search Premier | |
| Articles on virtually every topic, drawn from scholarly journals, professional journals, trade magazines, news publications, and lifestyle magazines. Provides full-text access to over half of its 8000+ publications. Covers materials published 1975-present. | |
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| African American Music Reference | |
| Full-text reference resource on African American music, covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other genres. Includes biographies, chronologies, lyrics, sheet music, liner notes, images, and discographies. | |
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| African American Song | |
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| American Song | |
| Streaming audio of diverse US music, past and present, plus liner notes. Includes a significant collection of African American music. | |
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| Cambridge Histories Online | |
| Includes the full-text of over 280 volumes from the Cambridge Histories series. Searchable and browsable by key areas, including American History, British History, Literary Studies, and Religious Studies. | |
| Classical Music Library | |
| Streaming audio of classical music written from the earliest times through the contemporary period. | |
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| Classical Music Reference Library | |
| Full-text reference resource on all genres of classical music, medieval to contemporary. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedia articles, biographies, histories, and other materials. | |
| Classical Scores Library | |
| Classical scores and manuscripts, Renaissance to contemporary. | |
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| Contemporary World Music | |
| Streaming audio of contemporary world music, plus liner notes. | |
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| Dance in Video | |
| Streaming video of dance performances and documentaries. Includes materials recorded 1955-present. | |
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| Dissertations & Theses | |
| Doctoral dissertations and masters theses in all academic fields, from universities in the US and Canada. Provides full-text access to most dissertations since 1997 and some earlier. Covers dissertations and theses completed 1861-present. | |
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| Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online | |
| Dissertations and dissertations-in-progress in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, and related disciplines. | |
| DRAM | |
| Streaming audio (plus liner notes and cover art) from independent record labels and sound archives. Emphasis on American music in many genres. | |
| Films on Demand | |
| Streaming video from the Film Media Group's collection. Covers a wide variety of subject areas. | |
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | |
| Full-text encyclopedia covering music around the world and throughout history. Includes regional overviews, information on musical genres and practices, and images (photographs, drawings, maps, and musical examples). | |
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| Grove Music Online | |
| now Oxford Music Online | |
| International Index to Music Periodicals | |
| Full-text articles from scholarly and popular journals and magazines on music. Covers materials published 1874-present. | |
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| International Index to the Performing Arts | |
| Full-text articles from scholarly and popular journals and magazines on the performing arts. Covers materials published 1864-present. | |
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| IPA Source | |
| International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias, art songs, and Latin sacred texts. | |
| Jazz Music Library | |
| Streaming audio of jazz recordings throughout the twentieth century, plus liner notes. | |
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| JSTOR | |
| Full-text scholarly journals articles in many disciplines. Dates of coverage vary by title, typically from the journal’s first issue (sometimes in the eighteenth century or earlier) through about five years ago. | |
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| Music Index | |||
| Magazine and journal articles, book reviews, performance reviews, news items, obituaries, and other materials on classical and popular music, musicians, and the music industry. Covers materials published 1952-present. | |||
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| Music Online | |
| A single cross-search of the Music Online databases: African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, Jazz Music Library, and Opera in Video. See individual titles in this list for more information. | |
| Naxos Music Library | |
| Streaming audio of classical music, plus some world music and jazz. Includes brief discussions of the works and biographical information on composers and artists. | |
| New York Times (1851 - 2006) | |
| see Historical Newspapers | |
| Opera in Video | |
| Streaming video of opera performances, interviews, and documentaries. Covers operas composed from the Baroque to the contemporary periods; includes materials recorded approximately 1933-present. | |
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| Orchestral Music Online | |
| Full-text reference work on orchestral music. Users can search by composer, title, keyword, duration, instrumentation, chorus type, or soloist. | |
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| Full-text collection of reference works on music across genres and eras. | |||
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| Percussion Orchestrations | |
| Timpani and percussion requirements for orchestral, operatic, and contemporary works, broken down by movement.
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| Proquest Research Library | |
| Articles on virtually every topic, drawn from scholarly journals, professional journals, trade magazines, news publications, and lifestyle magazines. Includes 5,000 titles - over 3,500 in full text. Covers materials published 1971-present. | |
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| RILM Abstracts of Music Literature | |||
| Journal articles, books, catalogues, reviews, electronic resources, and other materials on music across historical periods and cultures. Covers materials published 1967-present. | |||
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| Smithsonian Global Sound | |
| Streaming audio of music, spoken word (including speeches and readings of literary texts), and sounds. Coverage crosses geographic areas and historical periods. | |
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| VAST | |
| A cross search of all the streaming video provided by Alexander Street Press. | |
| WorldCat | |
| Books and other print and multimedia materials in libraries around the world. | |
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