Resources for MUSIC   Tags: fine_art, music  

Lectures, concerts, documentaries, and other streaming videos from the performing arts.

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Help with searching the online catalog and electronic databases.

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Resources for various citation styles, including MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, etc.

Contains reviews, free previews, bibliographies, and band influences, followers, and similar artists.

Selected music research links from Indiana University's William and Gayle Cook Music Library.

Contains full text articles on all aspects of music including biographies of musicians and thier works. Please use wssurams as the username and password to access Oxford Music Online (formerly Grove Music Online) from off campus.

Contains 50,000 pages 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

A comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores that allows users to cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press.

Contains full-text scholarly articles dating from the 19th century. Most articles appear 2-5 years after publication. Includes all academic subjects including music.

Provides full-text “scholarly” articles from the social sciences and humanities including music.

Lectures, concerts, documentaries, and other streaming videos from the performing arts.

Online videos related to Music and Dance

Online videos related to Art and Architecture.

Listen to classical compositions and get background information on the music as well.

Listen to music from distinctly American music genres.

Access sound files from classical music and other traditions.

Listen to international contemporary music.

Streaming music that includes an encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores.

Includes films on art and music from award winning documentarian Ken Burns, and series such as Scientific American Frontiers, American Experience, and Frontline. Require Adobe Flash Player Version 9.0 or higher.