LibGuides: Music: Find Articles

Article Databases and Indexes

These are the best places to start looking for articles related to Music. You can also see our full list of Electronic Resources.

Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
>3,000 scores (includes both in-copyright and public domain content) from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Major composers as well as many lesser-known composers & works.
ProQuest One Academic This link opens in a new window
Four core multidisciplinary products (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Ebook Central, Academic Video Online, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global), cross-searchable together on the ProQuest platform. Provides unified access to journals, e-books, dissertations, news, and video.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
This is the previous 'ProQuest' database in this list. As of March 2021, it is also included in the larger ProQuest Central database.
Periodicals Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text back issues of key academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. International in scope, with 500 full-run titles spanning 200 years.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text collection of scholarly journals in multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections.
Tip: Use 'Advanced Search' to limit to the subject collections appropriate to your search.
Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles in >150 Oxford University Press journals, covering a broad range of subject areas.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to articles in over 250 scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 40 university and society presses.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Huge multidisciplinary index of articles in over 8,500 journals, from 1989 to the present. (Includes: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index)
Taylor & Francis Journals Online (informaworld) This link opens in a new window
Full-text articles from journals in: Arts & Humanities; Business & Management; Economics & Econometrics; Education; Geography; Social Sciences.

The Music Index

STFX Macdonald Library Reference Collection

ML118 .M84

INDEX AREA

Summary Holdings v.1 (1949-)

Print Journals and Magazines

You can browse the most recent issues of our print music journals and magazines in the Main Floor Reading Room of the Library. Back issues are on the second floor.

Cadence (ML 3505.8 C3)
Downbeat
Jazz Journal International
Jazz Times
Down Beat
Modern Drummer
Canadian Musician
Saxophone Journal
Acoustic Guitar
Bass Player
Coda Magazine

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