Databases by Subject -- Music & Theatre

Find Articles in Databases

Use the following databases to find articles in scholarly journals, magazines, conferences, etc.

Classical Music Library (Audio, Full-Text)
Searchable classical music resource which includes tens of thousands of recordings you can listen to over the internet. Includes biographies and images of select composers, a glossary of musical terms, and a history of historical musical periods from medieval to contemporary.

Theatre in Video (Videos)
1930s - 1990s
This database contains videos of 279 full-length plays and documentaries and will eventually increase to 350. The 141 plays were recorded while performed before a live theatre audience, and the 138 documentaries cover various aspects of theatre. Additional works will be added to the collection in the future to cover a wide range of twentieth century theatre history. Works by well-known playwrights, directors, actors, and acting companies are represented in Broadway and off-Broadway productions for each decade from the 1930s through the 1990s.

Academic OneFile (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
Comprehensive database with millions of articles from journals and other reference sources. Includes articles on a variety of subjects such as: business and small business, communications and mass media, computers, criminal justice, diversity, education, environmental studies, health and medicine, landscaping and horticulture, military and terrorism, pop culture, psychology, religion and philosophy, and science. Includes the full-text coverage of The New York Times from 1995 to present.

General OneFile (Partial Full-Text)
1980 - present
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

OmniFile Mega (Partial Full-Text)
1982 - present
A one-stop multidisciplinary database covering many subjects such as: education, sciences, humanities, social sciences, etc. Contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full-text) in the six other Wilson databases: Education Index, Science Index, Humanities Index, Readers' Guide Index, Social Sciences Index, Business Index.

SIRS (Full-Text)
Current
Provides access to full-text articles and internet resources on a variety of subjects such as economics, health, history, business, science, literature, the arts, philosophy, film, etc. An excellent source for government information and U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

Find an e-Journal

If you are looking for a list of journal or magazine titles about Music, go to the Full-Text online versions of these titles.

Useful Books Located in the Library

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (20 Vols.)
Sadie, Stanley, Ed.
Washington, DC: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1980.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] ML100 .N48

New Oxford History of Music. (10 Vols.)
New York: Oxford University Press, 1954-1990.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] ML160 .N44

Encyclopedia of Popular Music. (8 Vols.)
Larkin, Colin.
New York: Groves Dictionaries of Music, Inc., 1998.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] ML102.P66 G84 1998

New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. (3 Vols.)
Kernfeld, Barry, Ed.
New York: Groves Dictionaries of Music, Inc., 2002.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] ML102.J3 N48 2002

New Grove Dictionary of Opera. (4 Vols.)
Sadie, Stanley, Ed.
New York: Groves Dictionaries of Music, Inc., 1998.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] ML102.O6 N5 1998

Heritage of Music. (4 Vols.)
Raeburn, Michael and Alan Kendall, Eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] ML160 .H527 1989

Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance. (2 Vols.)
Kennedy, Dennis, Ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Reference Room (3rd Floor) - [Ref] PN2035 .O94 2003

Call Numbers for Browsing

M 5-1490 - Instrumental Music	M 1495-5000 - Vocal Music
ML 1-3930 - Literature of Music	MT 1-960 - Musical Instruction and Study
PN1720-1861 - Drama History	PR621-739 - English Drama History

Selected Web Sites

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

Yahoo! Directory for Music

Theatre Archive Project