Music Resources
Bibliographies
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature — A primary database of hundreds of thousands of articles, books, and dissertations. [Available at UM]
- Oxford Music Online (Grove) — Includes extensive bibliographies within its biographical and topical articles. [Available at UM]
- MLA Index and Bibliography Series — Published by A-R Editions, this series covers diverse areas including American music, new musicology, and ethnomusicology. [Available at UM]
Theses
- Theses Canada—Index from 1965 to present; full text from 1998.
- EBSCO Open Dissertations — Search millions of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)
e-Books
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Alwes, Chester L. A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 2. A History of Western Choral Music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 1289395. View eBook.
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Briley, Ron. Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics. Charles K. Wolfe Music Series. [S.l.]: University of Tennessee Press, 2024. 4135955. View eBook
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Burgess, Richard James. The History of Music Production. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. View eBook.
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Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. Music and International History in the Twentieth Century. Explorations in Culture and International History Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. View eBook.
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Gray, Cecil. History Of Music. London: Routledge, 2004. View eBook.
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Hunt, Jeremy. From Chaos to Ambiguity: A Theology of Noise Rock. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2024. View eBook.
- Oxford History of Western Music -- Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3 / Volume 4 / Volume 5.
- Schulze, Hans-Joachim. Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: A Selective Guide. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. View eBook.
Journals
Academic Music Journals
- Asian Music
- Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute
- Brahms Studies
- British Journal of Ethnomusicology
- Canadian Folk Music / Musique folklorique canadienne
- Current Research in Jazz
- Early Music History
- Folk Music Journal
- Fontes Artis Musicae
- General Music Today
- And many more...
Online Academic Music Articles Databases
- Academic Search Premier (many full-text scholarly articles)
- Atla Religion Database (many academis articles about religion and music)
- Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ; peer-reviewed, open access research articles)
- Google Scholar (links to research articles—some full-text—and books)
- JSTOR (archive of scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects)
- Research Resources
- Reference Works
- Subject Resources
- Other Libraries
- Newspapers
- Writing Assistance
- New Materials
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