LibGuides: Music: Home

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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes The Encylopedia of Popular Music, Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Millersville University Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Search for printed and electronic books in our library catalog!
EBSCOHost ebooks This link opens in a new window
Over 20,000 fully accessible books on topics ranging from acting to zoology and everything in between!

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Features thousands of full-text databases and covers a broad range of topics including music and entertainment.
JSTOR Journal Archive This link opens in a new window
A full-text archive of over 1,000 of the best scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, mathematics, life sciences, etc. Full-text is available from the first issue, but does not include the most recent 2-5 years.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals. It is especially useful for finding academic journal articles relevant to music. Includes both full-text materials and links to items that can be requested from other libraries.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Full-text of 300+ peer-reviewed journals. Covers literature, history, the arts, culture, education, political science, gender studies, etc.

ChoralWiki, home of the Choral Public Domain Library
"Here you will find free choral/vocal scores, texts, translations, and other useful information" spanning 2,067 composers and 14,601 score pages. More than 10,840 texts and 2,560 translations are also available.
Cambridge History of Music
Provides information on music history from the 17th to 20th Centuries and includes volumes dedicated to the history of music performance, the history of Western musical theory and the history of American music.

International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions ( aka IPA Source ) This link opens in a new window
IPA Source is a library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Access the full-text for more than 400 newspapers and other sources. Includes: USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Times (London); plus transcripts from CNN, National Public Radio, CBS News, Fox News, CNBC, etc.
US Major Daily Newspapers This link opens in a new window
US Major Daily Newspapers provides indexing to and the full text of the following nationally oriented newspapers:
Chicago Tribune ( Full Text: 1996 - Present; Citations/Abstracts: 1989 - Present )
Los Angeles Times ( 1985 - Present )
New York Times ( 1980 - Present )
Wall Street Journal ( 1984 - Present )
Washington Post ( 1987 - Present )
Readers Guide Retrospective ( 1890 - 1982 ) This link opens in a new window
Great for finding primary source materials dating back to 1890!

Use these after trying Oxford Music and Music Online (Alexander Street Press)

Biography Reference Source This link opens in a new window
Offers more than 461,000 full-text biographies of actors, authors, composers, explorers, figures relevant to U.S. & world history, inventors, musicians, Presidents of the United States, current world leaders and more.

Classical Net
"Classical Net features more than 9,000 pages and 20,000+ images." The Composer Index/Master Composer Index is particularly useful for basic biographical information.