LibGuides: Music Education: Databases

Databases

Use the links below to access databases that are appropriate for conducting research on topics related to Music Education.

If an article listed in these resources is not available electronically or owned by a BW Library in print, you can request a copy using the interlibrary loan request form.

OhioLink Databases -- Education
ERIC
ERIC indexes education-related literature, beginning in 1966. The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information, containing abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.
Education Full Text
Education Full Text (EBSCO interface) comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles, with indexing cover to cover. Coverage includes about 79 journals (37 with full text).
Music Index Online
A subject-author guide to music periodical literature. Covering over 700 periodicals in all styles and genres of music, the Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
An attempt to index all significant music literature from 1967 to the present, supplemented by selected records going as far back as the 16th century, RILM provides a citation and usually an abstract for over 1,000,000 books, articles, dissertations, and other writings.
Academic Search Complete
A very large, multi-disciplinary periodical index with lots of full text available. Valuable for music research, particularly because of its currency, which is much better than either Music Index or RILM Abstracts.

Dissertation Abstracts (UMI Dissertations Express) This link opens in a new window
Index to doctoral dissertations and master's theses from North America and Europe. Purchase print or electronic copies via credit card. Also see Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center for the OhioLINK repository for the State of Ohio.

WorldCat
An enormous database of library holdings in all formats from around the world. Very helpful for locating items that are not in OhioLINK.

Music Reference

Oxford Music Online
Grove is the premier English-language encyclopedia of music. It includes signed articles, works lists, and bibliographies on 20,000 composers, locations, periods, instruments, terms, and other subjects.
Music Online: Classical Music Reference
Search the full-text of music reference titles including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
Music Online: African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages of text and 17,000 pages of liner notes that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
IPA Source
A service that provides translations and phonetic (IPA) transcriptions of thousands of songs and arias.

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