Music

Subject Librarian
email Gerald Burke

emailgburke@albany.edu
phone(518) 442-3592
location_onUniversity Library: LI-305

Key Databases

Oxford Music Online

Database that comprises Grove Music Online, which includes the full text of over 80,000 entries in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed.), and selected articles from The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. Oxford Music Online also has full text coverage of over 8,000 entries in The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed., rev. (2006). Includes more than 3,000 related links, including sound archives and illustrations.

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Coverage:
N/A
Updated:
Quarterly, annually
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
Limited to 6-8 concurrent users
Music Index

This database covers every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music, with indexing and abstracts for more than 480 periodicals and selective coverage for more than 200 more.

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Coverage:
1970 - present
Updated:
Quarterly
Fulltext:
Selective
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 99,760 CDs with more than 1,447,500 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. It also includes other genres such as Jazz, Folk, Pop and Rock, and more.

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Coverage:
n/a
Updated:
Daily
Fulltext:
n/a
Access limitations:
5 simultaneous users
Classical Music Library

Database is a streaming audio collection of classical music. It currently provides access to more than 648,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI. Over 1,800 composers are represented from the earliest times to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

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Coverage:
Various
Updated:
Continually
Fulltext:
N/A
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Music Online: Listening

Music Online: Listening is a comprehensive audio collection providing coverage in breadth and depth across all the key musical genres: American, Classical, Smithsonian Global, Jazz, Popular, and Contemporary World. Browsing can be done by collections or subjects, and searching can be done in each individual collection or through multiple collections at once.

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Coverage:
Various
Updated:
Continually
Fulltext:
NA
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
WorldCat Classic

Collection of all the FirstSearch databases subscribed to by the University Libraries including ArticleFirst, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, World Almanac, WorldCat, and some subject databases.

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Coverage:
Varies
Updated:
Varies
Fulltext:
No
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users

Other Databases

Academic Search Ultimate

Scholarly, multidisciplinary database. Includes more than 9,000 full-text periodicals (7,900+ are peer reviewed) in the social sciences, humanities, and science and technology.

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Coverage:
Many from 1990, some indexed as early as 1887
Updated:
Daily
Fulltext:
Yes, selected
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Humanities Source

Humanities Source provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing for the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities. Includes feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, book reviews, reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures, musicals, operas, plays, and much more. Humanities Source is a valuable collection for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. Full text for over 1,520 journals. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
1907 - Present
Updated:
continually
Fulltext:
Yes, selected.
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
JSTOR

Image backfiles of journals in humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. Includes the following collections: Arts & Sciences I through X, Arts & Sciences XII; Life Sciences, Iberoamerica and JSTOR Asia collection. User guide/tutorial

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Coverage:
Varies
Updated:
Varies
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
Project MUSE

400 Scholarly journals in literature humanities, social sciences, mathematics, cultural and gender studies from Johns Hopkins University Press. The journal list is available for browsing.

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Coverage:
1993 +
Updated:
Varies
Fulltext:
Yes
Access limitations:
No limitation on concurrent users
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