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Academic Search Complete
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Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
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A-Z Lyrics Universe
Over 50,000 lyrics from more than 1,500 artists. Browse by artist/band or enter artist/album/song to search the lyrics.
- Aaron Copland Collection Includes about a thousand items selected from Copland's correspondence, writing, photographs, and musical sketches; a timeline of important events in his life, and several previously published articles on his life and work.
- All Music Guide
- Aaron Copland Collection Includes about a thousand items selected from Copland's correspondence, writing, photographs, and musical sketches; a timeline of important events in his life, and several previously published articles on his life and work.
- Search by artist, album, song, style, or label. Most popular artists, albums and songs have reviews and commentary.
- African American Sheet Music
- 1,305 images of African-American sheet music from 1850 through 1920
- American Music Resource (Frank McCarty, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro)
- Books, articles, and dissertations on aspects of American music and American musicians and composers arranged by topic and musician/composer's name.
- Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music (Geoffrey Chew and Andrew Dell'Antonio)
- Abstracts of completed and in-progress dissertations, arranged by author and searchable by keyword.
- Bach Bibliography (Yo Tomito, School of Music, Queen's Univ. of Belfast)
- A searchable database of over 14,000 items about Bach.
- Beethoven Bibliographic Database (San Jose State Univ.)
- A searchable catalog of over 6,200 articles, books, and scores related to Beethoven. When you connect, press O (to select Other Databases), then B.
- Border Cultures: Conjunto Music
- Essays on conjunto music, audio excerpts from conjunto artists, a photography exhibit of conjunto accordion players, and a survey of the Arhoolie record label (a proponent of conjunto music) from the Benson collection at the University of Texas
- Broadcast.com
- Hundreds of live radio station and television station feeds.
- CAIRSS for Music (Institute for Music Research, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio)
- A bibliographic database of research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine with citations from 1,354 different journal titles.
- Canadian Music Periodical Index (National Library of Canada)
- A searchable index of over 25,000 items from Canadian music journals, newsletters, and magazines
- Classical Composers Database
- Short biographical information on more than 800 composers with links to online information.
- Composer Biographies
- Short biographical sketches and images of famous composers
- Creative Music: Music Box
- Online dictionary of musical terms, composer and artist biographies, classic music sheet covers, and a beginner's guide to classical music.
- Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers
- Brief biographical information about composers with links to recordings of their music.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online (American Musicological Society, School of Music, Indiana Univ.)
- Citations to completed and in-progress dissertations reported but with no abstracts.
- Early American Secular Music and its European Sources, 1589-1839: An Index
- More than 75,000 pieces of music are described as found in about 1200 sources.
- Eric'c Treasure Trove: Music
- Short descriptions of musical terms including explanations of musical notation, chords and notes, intervals, scales, and time signatures.
- Google Scholar Remote Access
Access to some full text restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines
- Grammy Awards
- Lists of Grammy winners
- GuitarLessons.net
- 22 free guitar lessons on the web
- Hi Fi-Do High Fidelity Digitization Online
- " offers sheet music and recordings that date from jazz's beginnings in the early 1910s through Chicago Jazz's heyday in the 1920s up to the Great Depression. " From the Chicago Jazz Archive at the University of Chicago Library.
- Hispano Music and Culture of the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collection
- From the Library of Congress, this is an " online presentation of a multi-format ethnographic field collection documenting religious and secular music of Spanish-speaking residents of rural Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. "
- Historic American Sheet Music
- " The Historic American Sheet Music Project provides access to digital images of 3042 pieces from the collection, published in the United States between 1850 and 1920. "
- I Hear America Singing
- From the Music, Theater and Dance Collections of the Library of Congress, sheet music and recordings are available online.
- Inventions of Note
- About 75 pieces of sheet music from the Lewis Music Library published between 1890-1920
- JSTOR Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
- Launch.com
- Album and concert reviews as well as upcoming concerts and releases.
- Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
- This Johns Hopkins University online collection of sheet music contains popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1923.
- Lyrics World
- Popular song lyrics database
- mp3.box
- Searches many mp3 sites
- mp3.com
- More than 5 million legitimate song downloads from this site that also explains and provides MP3 software, used to compress CD-quality song files to manageable sizes.
- MP3 Search
- Search and download a half million CD-quality MP3 format songs.
- Music for the Nation
- From the Library of Congress, images of tens of thousands of pieces of sheet music from the late 1800's. Search by author, title or subject. No special image viewer needed.
- Nineteenth Century California Sheet Music
- Images of 2,000 pieces of sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900.
- Online Guitar Archive
- Guitar tablatures, chord files, and lyrics
- Pollstar
- Search by artist, city, or venue for concert tours.
- Project Muse Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
- Red Hot Jazz Archives
- Searchable information on artist biographies and discographies as well as some downloadable recordings.
- RISM Online
- Four comprehensive databases: Music Manuscripts after 1600, the U.S. RISM Libretto Database, the RISM Online Libraries Directory, and a database of bibliographic references for thematic catalogs and other secondary sources cited in the first two databases.
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Biographical information on inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Google Scholar Remote Access
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