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Key Electronic Resources for Music

Music Index
Journal articles on classical and popular music
The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. Formerly The Music Index Online provided by Harmonie Park Press, this database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. The comprehensive coverage of the music field and every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music makes Music Index an invaluable resource for both novice and scholar.

Music Index cites: • Book Reviews • Obituaries • News Periodicals • News and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry
Oxford Music Online
Music encyclopedia online (formerly known as Grove Dictionary of Music)
*Oxford Music Online is the electronic version of Grove Music (the definitive music encyclopedia) made up of over 29,000 articles drawing on the expertise of over 6,000 international contributors.

*It contains the information found in both the print New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, (2001, 30 volumes), the print New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992 and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2002.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library
Free access to over 350,000 music scores and 40,000 music recordings.
The International Music Scores Library Project (IMSLP) was created in 2006 by Edward W. Guo.

Based in Canada, the project seeks to make public domain musical scores freely available on the internet through the Petrucci Library. The digital library holds 350,000 scores, from works by well-known masters such as Sibelius and Verdi, to exciting new compositions shared by the IMSLP community; the library also holds 40,000 recordings that stream on the site.

IMSLP follows Canadian copyright laws because the two main IMSLP servers are physically hosted in Canada.

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General Article Databases (All Subjects)
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Featured eBook

Master Singers: Advice from the Stage
ISBN: 9780199324170
Publication Date: 2015-02-12
There is often a dichotomy between the academic approach to singing that voice students learn in the studio and what professional singers do on the operatic and concert stage. Contains interviews with some of today's most accomplished and renowned concert and operatic singers.

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Art Song Transpositions
Digital sheet music database of more than 13,000 art songs and arias, available in any key.
Founded by Dr. Jonathan Edward Mann, who holds degrees in piano performance from University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Indiana University, Art Song Transpositions offers professionally crafted scores of public domain art songs, arias, and musical theatre titles in any key, edited by professional musicians. The institutional version of the website includes PDF access to scores which have already been transposed by AST as well as the ability to request new transpositions.
Dissertations and Theses: Global
Doctoral dissertations and master’s theses in full-text from universities in 88 countries
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.

More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.

Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.

Subject coverage
• Business and Economics
• Medical Sciences
• Science
• Technology
• Agriculture
• Social Sciences
• Arts
• Humanities
Education Full Text
Education
*lists citations, summaries, and full-text of journal articles and books

*covers education topics

*covers items published from 1983, summaries since 1994, and full-text since 1996
ERIC
Authoritative index for education research with links to full-text resources
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the world's most widely used index to educational-related literature. Established in 1966, ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

The U.S. Department of Education provides a free version of the ERIC index at eric.ed.gov. Please use this version if you are not affiliated with ASPU or if the subscription version provided by EBSCO is unavailable.
ERIC contains records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents. It includes records for a variety of source types, including journal articles, books, conference papers, curriculum guides, dissertations and policy papers.
Further, researchers can limit search results by education level such as Early Childhood Education as well as on the intended audience such as Counselors or Teachers.
ERIC also includes an education-specific thesaurus containing over 11,800 terms. It covers items published from 1907 - Present.
Fine Arts (Gale OneFile)
Infotrac Journals and eBooks on Fine Arts and Music
Covers such topics as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking with emphasis on full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.

Gale InfoTrac Power Packs are subsets of periodicals found in the Academic OneFile and General OneFile Databases. Each subject specific PowerPack Collection has the content needed by a unique category of researcher. This collection also contains some unique content not available within the databases listed above.
International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library
Free access to over 350,000 music scores and 40,000 music recordings.
The International Music Scores Library Project (IMSLP) was created in 2006 by Edward W. Guo.

Based in Canada, the project seeks to make public domain musical scores freely available on the internet through the Petrucci Library. The digital library holds 350,000 scores, from works by well-known masters such as Sibelius and Verdi, to exciting new compositions shared by the IMSLP community; the library also holds 40,000 recordings that stream on the site.

IMSLP follows Canadian copyright laws because the two main IMSLP servers are physically hosted in Canada.
IPA Source
Phonetic transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts
IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 11826 titles! The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content.

IPA Source was developed to benefit singers, teachers, and all those interested in the correct and knowledgeable performance of vocal literature. To further the comprehension and correct pronunciation of foreign language texts, IPA Source provides IPA transcriptions and literal translations for immediate download. MP3 recordings of various song and aria texts in Latin, Italian, German, and French are also included.
JSTOR
Multiple Subjects including history, literature, biology, political science, communication, business, and African-American studies
*Contains the full text of articles from scholarly journals

*Articles published from early 1900s to 2 or 3 years ago.

Austin Peay State University currently participates in the following JSTOR Collection(s):
Biological Sciences Collection
Life Sciences Collection
Arts & Sciences I Collection
Arts & Sciences II Collection
Arts & Sciences III Collection
Arts & Sciences IV Collection
Arts & Sciences V Collection
Arts & Sciences VI Collection
Arts & Sciences VII Collection
Arts & Sciences VIII Collection
Arts & Sciences IX Collection
Arts & Sciences X Collection
Arts & Sciences XI Collection
Arts & Sciences XII Collection
Arts & Sciences XIII Collection
Arts & Sciences XIV Collection
Arts & Sciences XV Collection

Austin Peay State University also subscribes to the following individual journal(s):
19th-Century Music
The American Biology Teacher
The American Mathematical Monthly
The College Mathematics Journal
Ethnomusicology
Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
Mathematics Magazine
The Mathematics Teacher
Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
Nineteenth-Century Literature
Social Problems
Teaching Children Mathematics
Music Index
Journal articles on classical and popular music
The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. Formerly The Music Index Online provided by Harmonie Park Press, this database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. The comprehensive coverage of the music field and every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music makes Music Index an invaluable resource for both novice and scholar.

Music Index cites: • Book Reviews • Obituaries • News Periodicals • News and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)
Full-text graduate-level theses and dissertations
*OATD is an index of over 1.6 million electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). To the extent possible, the index is limited to records of graduate-level theses that are freely available online.

*The full text of all papers lives on the original hosting site, usually the repository of the university that granted the degree.
Oxford Music Online
Music encyclopedia online (formerly known as Grove Dictionary of Music)
*Oxford Music Online is the electronic version of Grove Music (the definitive music encyclopedia) made up of over 29,000 articles drawing on the expertise of over 6,000 international contributors.

*It contains the information found in both the print New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, (2001, 30 volumes), the print New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992 and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2002.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
Search libraries around the world
*WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries near your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos—all of the physical items you're used to getting from libraries. You can also discover many kinds of digital content.

*This edition of WorldCat, provided through OCLC FirstSearch, enables users to search multiple terms in specific fields (title, author, subject, etc.) and limit by characteristics such as format, date, or audience level.

A free version is available at http://www.worldcat.org/

IDAGIO
Streaming, reinvented for classical music (sign up for free account)
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Audio streaming is becoming the predominant way of listening to music. But the well-known all-genre services are pop-driven, and their structure only allows for three search categories: song, artist, and album. Classical music is available on these major streaming services, but the criteria that make classical music so special – composer, work, conductor, orchestra, soloist, and more – are missing from the structure. For this reason, classical music lovers who use these services struggle with a lack of user-friendliness and search options as well as confusing and sometimes incorrect search results. Musicians and their recordings can thus only be found with difficulty or not at all, drastically reducing visibility for classical musicians on these platforms.

At IDAGIO, we have developed a proprietary data model and our own unique technological solution to structure and display classical music in a clear, clean way. That is why users, musicians, and labels alike affirm that IDAGIO has developed the very best interface for classical music.

Spotify
Search for classical artists, works, and playlists (sign up for free account)
Pandora
Search for artists, works, and playlists (sign up for free account)

Academic Video Online: Premium
Streaming video for all subjects
Academic Video Online (AVON) delivers more than 66,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, history, business, counseling, dance, ethnic studies, gay and lesbian studies, film, opera, religion, theatre, and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. Publishers include A&E, Bullfrog Films, HISTORY®, Sony Pictures Classics, BroadwayHD™, 60 Minutes, PBS, BBC, Milestone Films and many more.

*Complete details for Academic Video Online: Premium including a full bibliography can be found at www.alexanderstreet.com/avon . A guide is available at http://proquest.libguides.com/AVON
Opera in Video
Opera performances: Music, Theatre
Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

Streaming Audio

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Featured Open Access Journal

Journal of Beatles Studies
The Journal of Beatles Studies establishes a scholarly focal point for critique, dialogue and exchange on the nature, scope and value of The Beatles as an object of academic enquiry and seeks to examine and assess the continued economic value and cultural values generated by and around The Beatles, for policy makers, creative industries and consumers. The journal also seeks to approach The Beatles as a prism for accessing insight into wider historical, social and cultural issues.

It is the first journal to establish The Beatles as an object of academic research, and publishes original, rigorously researched essays, notes, as well as book and media reviews. Its inaugural issue was published in September 2022.