Electronic Databases
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- Academic Search Elite Abstracts and full text journal articles in all subject categories.
- African American Music Reference 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. A comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
- Arts & Humanities Citation Index A citation index can be searched by author, topic and citation.
- Humanities Full TextCovers the fields of art, history, communications, language and literature, literary and political criticism, philosophy and religion. Full text.
- Humanities International Index A comprehensive database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
- Music Index Online An index of 640 international periodicals concerned with every aspect of classical and popular music.
- Naxos Music Library Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music, it includes the catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
- Oxford Music Online A gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products which include, but are not limited to The Oxford Dictionary of Music; Grove Music Online database and The Oxford Companion to Music.
- Readers' Guide Full Text
Indexes and abstracts from more than 400 popular journals, from as far back as 1983. Also available in print, Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, 1900 - 1982 (Reference Area)
- General Electronic Databases
Print Resources
- Music Index (Reference Storage)
Comprehensive Sites on Music
- Abridged Dictionary of ComposersBrief biographical information about composers with links to recordings of their works.
- Classical ComposersBiographical information about classical composers offered from Homo Ecumenicus, a music publishing firm.
- The Classical Music NavigatorA classical music resource from Western Kentucky University.
- Genres and Types of MusicCatagories include 20th Century music, Ambient music, Bluegrass, Blues, Choral music, Ethnic music, Folk music and more.
- Music Sites ListA Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management Site.
- Musicals101.comHistory of the musical theater from the operetta to the 1990's.
- Worldwide Internet Music ResourcesThe William and Gayle Cook Music Library of the Indiana University School of Music provides this web site of organized links to music resources on the World Wide Web, including: composers and composition, research, and performance sites.
Classical Music
- Classical Net Excellent, comprehensive site maintained by Dave Lampson.
Jazz
- World Wide Jazz WebThis award-winning site has links to jazz musicians, jazz groups, jazz festivals, jazz magazines, and more jazz sites.
Related Sites at UW-Platteville/Karrmann Library
Department of Fine Arts - Music at UW-Platteville
- The Music Office is located in 180 Doudna and the contact person is Dan Fairchild. For a listing of courses or for more information on this program, call (608) 342-1143.
- John Berg is the Karrmann Library's liaison to the Music program. Contact John at (608) 342-1355 for individualized consultations and/or library instruction sessions in Music. His email address is bergjo@uwplatt.edu