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Music Subject Guide
Learn how to search for music in our collection, access streaming media, begin basic research, and more!
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Music-Specific Databases
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowFull-text articles from scholarly and popular journals and magazines on music. Covers materials published 1874-present.
- Music Index This link opens in a new windowMagazine 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 1970-present. Also available in print.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowRILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a bibliography of music articles, collections, and books, offers researchers and music scholars thousands of records in music research. Records are added and updated on a monthly basis.
*****Consult the List of Journal Titles on the Library Homepage for access to our holdings.*****
Remember to use Bibliographies!
Look at what the experts who write the articles in New Grove, etc. suggest for further reading. Bibliographies are your friend (really!). Starting here, evaluate what other scholarship has to offer via databases.
General Databases
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowArticles 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.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull-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.
*****Consult the List of Journal Titles on the Library Homepage for access to our holdings.*****
Journals List
For up-to-date information about journal holdings at St. Olaf and Carleton, consult the journals list on the Libraries Homepage:
