Guides: Music: Articles

Journal & Magazine Articles

LibrarySearch
Middlebury library's search engine. It searches for everything we own or have access to, including books, CDs, printed music, articles, and reference materials. It's also multidisciplinary, so you can find information about, for example, music AND psychology (go/LibrarySearch/)
Billboard Online
News and info about the popular music scene.
BMS Online (Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums)
Provides bibliographic data from 1986 to the present. It includes monographs and articles from journals, Festschriften, congress proceedings, yearbooks, anthologies, critical reports and interdisciplinary writings as well as reviews.
Canadian Music Periodical Index
CMPI is an index of articles from Canadian Periodicals. Texts of articles are not available through this site but can be obtained by interlibrary loan.
Note: citations only
Etude Magazine 1883-1957
The publication includes a wealth of information on musical pedagogy in the late 18th century and early 19th centuries and presents first-hand accounts of composers and performers of the period. With permission from representatives of Carl Fischer/Theodore Presser, they are now available through the Digital Commons of Gardner-Webb University.

JSTOR All Collections This link opens in a new window
Middlebury's access includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR, spanning more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections (Global Plants, 19th-century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom in southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa). Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off campus).

Periodicals Archive Online (PAO)
Searchable archive of hundreds of digitized journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences from 1665 - 2000. PAO is searchable with the British Periodicals I & ll collection.
ProQuest Arts: Journals & Dissertations
Includes these databases: American Periodicals; British Periodicals; CBCA Complete: The Arts; Ethnic NewsWatch; Index Islamicus; International Index to Music Periodicals; MLA International Bibliography; ProQuest Career and Technical Education: The Arts; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Arts; ProQuest Research Library: The Arts

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts for music journals and magazines, 1969 - current. Includes abstracts of scholarly articles and books. Especially good for finding resources related to ethnomusicology.

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni is the new platform for LexisNexis Academic. It offers a streamlined, unified search of more than 15,000 news, legal and business sources. Resources include the full text of national and international newspapers; magazines; wire services; business and financial information; U.S. laws, regulations, and legal cases. Designed to meet student needs, it allows individual customization along with collaboration tools for creating shared work space for group projects.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
Search the digitized full-text and images of several major newspapers including New York Times (1851-2018); Wall Street Journal (1889-2010); Los Angeles Times (1881-1997); Washington Post (1877-2006); Chicago Tribune (1849-1998); Boston Globe (1872-1990); Christian Science Monitor (1908-2009); Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945). Black Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909-1975); Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003); Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
Newspapers Research Guide
Browse for titles of local, national and international newspapers available in the Middlebury Library and beyond. Link to the publications online, or find their library locations.