Subject Guides: Music: Journals & Articles

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Scholarly Journals

There are hundreds of peer-reviewed scholarly journals on music spanning topics in performance, history, ethnomusicology, theory, music therapy, and many others. The list below includes some of the most influential journals in these fields, but it is only a small sample. If you wish to undertake a more thorough search, consider using one or more of the databases listed to the right.

Journal of the American Musicological Society

Journal of Music Theory

Journal of Musicology

Journal of Musicological Research

Early Music

Early Music History

19th Century Music

Perspectives of New Music

Journal of the Society for American Music

American Music

Ethnomusicology

Opera Quarterly

Popular Music

Popular Music and Society

Popular Music History

Black Music Research Journal

Notes (Music Library Association)

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Arranged by topic, also including dance, drama, and film.

Databases for Music Research

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Over 275,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes. Coverage: 1969-present.
Contains records in over 100 languages; entries include original-language titles, title translations in English, full bibliographic information, and abstracts in English, as well as author, journal, and in-depth subject indexes.
Fine Arts and Music OneFile This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and film-making. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location, searching more than 8000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works. Includes Grove Music Online.
Also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition.
IPA Source This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 11,000 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. IPA Source is searchable by composer, poet, title, opera aria and Latin text. Texts are available as downloadable PDFs.
Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO) This link opens in a new window
Critical performing editions and partbooks of music in seven series (Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th and Early 20th Centuries, American Music (including MUSA), Oral Traditions, and Yale University’s Collegium Musicum. Includes the Legacy and Ongoing collections. Scores can be downloaded.

Multidisciplinary Databases that Include Music

Best bets for finding scholarly articles, reviews, conference papers, and more. These databases are not devoted specifically to music, but they include a wide variety of music resources that may not be found in the music-specific databases.

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Covers over 11,000 journals in all fields of study.
Peer-reviewed, full-text journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Humanities Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Full text for many of the most important academic sources in the humanities. Humanities Source provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas and more.
Humanities Source provides coverage of feature articles, interviews, bibliographies, obituaries, and original works of fiction, drama, poetry and book reviews, as well as reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, radio and television programs, plays, operas and more. Includes full-text. Coverage: 1910 - present.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is primarily a journal archive. The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of 33 titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music. The collection includes journals published in the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, and France. Only some current content is available here. If you are looking for current information, you may want to try other databases as well.
JSTOR has a "moving wall," which represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. Publishers determine the moving wall length in their license agreements with JSTOR. Moving walls may range from zero to ten years, and those with walls from zero to seven years participate in our revenue sharing program. In calculating the moving wall, the current, incomplete year is not counted.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Through the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, this provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information and cited references found in nearly 1,130 of the world's leading arts & humanities journals (1988-present).
Also includes BIOSIS Citation Index, Data Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Derwent Innovation Index. Medline (1950-present), Current Chemical Reactions, Index Chemicus, and Zoological Records.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
NexisUni provides access to 15,000+ news, business and legal sources.
Includes full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; articles and data on businesses, corporations, industries and markets in the U.S. and abroad; magazines and trade journals; biographical information and special directories; legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.

Best bets for finding Dissertations and Theses.

Dissertations & Theses @ Binghamton University This link opens in a new window
Full text of all BU dissertations from 1997 to the present. Citations and abstracts of all BU dissertations published by UMI.
For earlier dissertations and thesis, the Libraries might have copies available in print.
Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
International in scope, this database offers indexing and text for dissertations and thesis spanning from 1743 to the present day. Full text for some dissertations prior to 1997, full text for most works added since 1997.
With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.

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