Research Databases for Music
To find a magazine or journal by a known title, use our ECSU Journal Locator.
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| Grove Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
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| Smithsonian Global Sound (on campus only) | This database is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. It includes over 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds. The collection also encompasses world music archives, topics in history, readings, and a children’s collection. |
| General Databases (which include information on music) | |
| AcademicSearch Premier (EbscoHost) | An interdisciplinary database which covers the humanities,
and includes full-text articles to over 4,595 periodicals.
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| American National Biography | Contains biographies of almost 18,000 deceased men and women,
whose lives have shaped America. Search music personalities by
choosing "Occupations" - "Performing Arts".
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| Communication & Mass Media Complete | Covers journals in communication and mass media. Some
coverage of music primarily as it relates to mass media.
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| Encyclopedia Britannica | Online version of the familiar work. A good source for introductory music research.
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| iCONN Newsstand | A collection of 6 major newspaper titles including the New York
Times, the L.A. Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington
Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Hartford Courant.
Newspapers include current news about the music industry and
performances.
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| In the First Person | An index to English language personal narratives allowing users to perform in-depth field and keyword searches across all letters, diaries, oral histories, memoirs, and autobiographies within scholarly materials that are freely available on the Web and Alexander Street databases. Includes various comments about music personalities.
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| JSTOR | JSTOR is an archive of core scholarly journals in cross-disciplinary fields such as anthropology, economics, mathematics, and the arts and sciences. Our collection includes the Music Collection, containing the complete back runs of thirty-two titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music, searched seamlessly from the initial JSTOR search box. |
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For questions about this page, contact Sandy Brooks at brookss@easternct.edu
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