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Music Periodicals Database
A music periodical resource covering several aspects of music including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, theory, popular music, and more.Music Database provides a combination of full-text and abstract-only... Connect
Naxos Music Library
Offers streaming access to CDs and tracks, standard and rare repertoire. New CDs are added to the library every month. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or... Connect
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series... Connect
Oxford History of Western Music
The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Connect
Oxford Music Online
Encyclopedic content pertaining to all aspects of music performance and scholarship.Oxford Music Online contains content from three prominent music reference resources: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music... Connect
Oxford Music Online
Encyclopedic content pertaining to all aspects of music performance and scholarship.Oxford Music Online contains content from three prominent music reference resources: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music... Connect
Oxford Reference
The full text of over 300 key reference titles from Oxford University Press, including scholarly articles from titles in Oxford Companions series, English and bilingual dictionaries, subject-based encyclopedias covering... Connect
Periodicals Archive Online
A multidisciplinary full-text archive of periodicals pertaining to the humanities and social sciences.Periodicals Archive Online provides electronic access to backfiles of over 700 journals in the humanities and social... Connect
Project MUSE
Project MUSE provides online access to the full text of over 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the... Connect
ProQuest Arts and Humanities
Searches all the arts and humanities databases on the Proquest platform including the following:American PeriodicalsARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsBritish Humanities Index (BHI)... Connect
ProQuest History
Searches all the history databases on the ProQuest platform including the following:American PeriodicalsBritish PeriodicalsCBCA: Reference & Current Events: HistoryCBCA Complete: HistoryCanadian... Connect
RISM: Répertoire Internationale des Sources Musicale
RISM is recognized within the music world as the central place for the documentation of music primary sources. In 34 countries around the world, one or more national RISM working groups participate in this project. In... Connect
Rock's Backpages
Over 23,000 classic articles on artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top, on all genres from rockabilly to hip hop, by the finest music writers of the last 50 years. Rock’s Backpages features the work of many of the world's best-... Connect
Smithsonian Global Sound
Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways this collection of over 2,800 albums provides an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse... Connect
University of Windsor Thesis and Dissertation Collection
Access thousands of digitized theses and dissertations from the University of Windsor, with new materials being added each semester.The University of Windsor is a comprehensive university with 54 Masters and Doctoral... Connect
Victorian Popular Culture
Source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain, and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. Spiritualism, Sensation, and Magic explores the relationship between the popularity of Victorian magic... Connect
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