Music Performance and Research: Finding Journal Articles About Music
Music Periodical and Literature Indexes
Use these databases to find books and articles about music by topic.
- Music Index This link opens in a new windowThe Music Index Online contains citations from more than 640 international music journals including history, theory, performance, ethnomusicology, education, and popular music. It also includes citations for dissertations, reviews, and obituaries. (1969-)
- RILM - Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowIndexes books, articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, theses and other literature in the field of music, from 1969 to present.
The RILM contains over 560,000 citations on international music corresponding to the printed RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. Approximately 30,000 new records are added every year, covering all document types: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more. - Music Periodicals Database (formerly International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)) This link opens in a new windowThis database draws its current content from nearly 400 international music periodicals from over 30 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post.
Indexes to Early Music Periodicals
Music periodicals, 1722-1840, from the Musikbibliothek der Stadt
American Periodical Series.
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Pt. 1 18th century, AP2 .A2 A81
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Pt. 2 1800-1850, AP2 .A38
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Pt. 3 1850-1900, AP2 .A381
Issues of American periodicals published during the above time periods. All subject areas are covered. Indexes many early music periodicals. Guide and index at Gov-Micro AP2 .A38, and in Reference at Ref Z6951 .H65. Also online as part of C19: The Ninteenth Century Index.
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index This link opens in a new windowC19 Index is the bibliographic spine of 19th century research, providing integrated access to the most important finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers and archives. Within Series I are the main multi-title, periodical indices, spanning nearly all Anglo-American periodicals of the late eighteenth through early twentieth century. PP reproduces the indexing from: Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Index to Periodicals (1890-1902) (Ed. William T. Stead), Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals, Nineteenth Century Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature (1890-1899), ... and many more. Series V provides online access to the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U.S., 1774-1882, Compilation of the Message and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897), Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Commons (1803-1830) and Hansard's Index to Debates, House of Lords (1803-1830).
Important Early Periodicals
Critica Musica (Johann Mattheson): ML4 .M41 Gov't Publications Microform
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Leipzig, 1798/9–1848): ML5 .A43 Gov't Publications Microform (print copy in LSC, same call number)
Le ménestrel
(Paris, 1833/4–1914, 1919–1940): ML5 .M46 Music Stacks
The Musical Times
(London, 1844/5–): ML5 .M85 Music Stacks (1844-1930 Gov-Micro; 1959-1990 LSC; 1903-1996 online via jstor)
Dwight’s Journal of Music (Boston, 1852-1881): ML1 .D83 Music Stacks
