Music: Find Articles
Find Articles
Use online databases to find electronic articles in journals, newspapers and magazines. You can search for periodical articles by the article's author, title or keyword by using databases in your subject area.
To access the A-Z list of journal titles, click here.
Online Databases
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Here are some useful guides for you to start off. You may also opt to view the tutorial videos related to some of the databases recommended above.
Free Online Access
- The Aria DatabaseA diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias. Designed for singers and non-singers alike, the database includes translations and aria texts of most arias as well as a collection of MIDI files of operatic arias and ensembles. Please note that this resource is no longer updated.
- Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO)The world's largest freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections. The MIMO database now contains the records of more than 60000 instruments.
- MusRefMusRef is a guide to more than 11000 print and internet music reference resources, including eJournals, eBooks, digital collections and composer websites.
- Open Music LibraryThe Open Music Library brings together peer-reviewed journal articles, books and music scores from the world’s digital collections by making use of shared ontologies, linked open data and principles of the semantic web. This platform includes both free and for-fee content.
- The Opera DatabaseA database of operas and aria PDFs, as well as a list of operatic resources, including libretti, scores, and synopses.
- RISM CatalogThe Répertoire International des Sources Musicales offers the most comprehensive documentation available for music manuscripts and printed music for the time between 1600 and 1800. The RISM Online Catalog documents manuscripts, printed music, libretti, and treatises.
- ViFaMusik Virtual Library of MusicologyViFaMusik allows you to access an extensive digital library on music and musicology containing the latest scholarly research and online resources.