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New to our collection: Silk Theatre Handbill

Fryer Library was delighted to recently add to its collection a silk theatre handbill. With black print on cream silk and a fringed edging, it is a very early example of this genre in Brisbane.

Ethnomusicology

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Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

RILM abstracts of music literature

A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics..

Arts & humanities citation index

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

JSTOR

Provides full text articles from music journals. All volumes of each title are availble except for the last few years.

Other databases

APAIS

A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from a wide range of periodicals, newspapers, scholarly journals, conference papers and books in the social sciences and humanities

Anthropology Plus

Provides indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies

America: History and Life

Comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries, providing a research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. The database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide

Bibliography of Asian Studies

The online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies contains records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features

Ingenta Select

Ingenta Select, formerly CatchWord, hosts over 1100 journals for 65 publisher clients. The University of Queensland Library provides online full text access to over 250 of these journals

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Related Guides
Related Guides: 

You can also browse the Catalogue, or the shelves at the following call numbers -
ML 3798+ Ethnomusicology - history and criticism
ML128.E Ethnomusicology - bibliography
ML3544 - 3799 National music

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Women in Music

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

The Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more than 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

RILM abstracts of music literature

A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics.

Classical music library

Classical music library is a classical music service that enables listening and learning at selected library and home computers. It includes recordings, program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.

Naxos music library

Collection of digital music. Comprised of the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, including classical music, historical and nostalgic recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists.

Other databases

JSTOR

Provides full text articles from music journals. All volumes of each title are available, except the last few years.

Current contents connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features.

Arts & humanities citation index

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

Browse all databases for Music

Related Guides
Related Guides: 

You can also browse the Catalogue, or the shelves at the following call numbers -
ML82 Women in music
ML3838 Music and psychology

Specialised Resources
Web Sites

Music Therapy

Getting Started

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Encyclopaedias: 
Handbooks: 

Clinicians' manual for music therapy in acute psychiatry

The art and science of music therapy : a handbook

Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the sheves at the following call numbers:

ML3920 Music therapy
ML3830 Music psychology

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

CINAHL

Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals. Also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. The database includes literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. The sources include professional journals, chapters, books, reports, theses and dissertations, published internationally.

Medline

Contains citations and abstracts covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

A bibliography of music literature which covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology,instruments and voice, dance and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they realte to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics.

Other databases

Cochrane Library

A source of reliable and up-to-date information on the effects of interventions in health care, designed to provide information and evidence to support decisions taken in health care and to inform those receiving care.

PubMed

Includes citations for biomedical articles and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.

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Web Sites

Music of Ireland

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Encyclopaedias: 
Handbooks: 

Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call number:

ML 3654 Irish Music

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

The Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more than 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

Humanities Index

Humanities Index provides information in the following areas: art, archaeology and classical studies, dance, drama, film, folklore, history, journalism and communications, language and literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology. More than 345 English-language periodicals are indexed.

Other databases

America: History and life

Comprises over 450,000 bibliographic entries, providing a research tool for students and researchers of US and Canadian history. The database covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features.

Browse all databases for Music

Specialised Resources
Web Sites

Music Education

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 
Handbooks: 

Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers -

MT Music Teaching
L General works on education
LB Theory and practice of teaching

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

The Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more than 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries

RILM abstracts of music literature

A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics..

ERIC

A national bibliographic database covering the literature of education. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, ERIC consists of two files: Resources in Education (RIE), covering the document literature, and Current Index to Journals in Education (CIJE), covering the published journal literature from over 775 periodicals. The database also includes the full text of ERIC Digest records.

Other databases

Australian Education Index

Indexes and abstracts articles from published material at all levels of education and related fields. Subject coverage includes curriculum, educational research, information science, librarianship, management, policy administration, psychology, sociology, teaching and training.

Proquest Education Journals

ProQuest education journals links to the full text of 400 journals on education, including primary, secondary, and university-level topics. Formerly known as ProQuest education complete.

PsycINFO

PsycINFO database covers the academic, research and practice literature in psychology from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. It includes materials from related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social science, and organizational behavior. PsycINFO provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports.

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features

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Browse all databases for Education

Web Sites

Popular Music

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Facts behind the songs : a handbook of American popular music from the nineties to the '90s

ARIA yearbook / Record Industry Association

Australasian music industry directory

Books

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue or the shelves at the following call numbers:

M1627 - 1844 Popular and folk music (Scores and recordings)
ML3469 - 3541 Popular music - general
ML3506 Jazz music
ML3521 Blues music
ML3534 Rock music

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Rock & Roll, counterculture, peace and protest

Contains materials about popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950 to 1975.

Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

JSTOR

A database established to convert back issues of paper journals into electronic format in core fields. The JSTOR archive of digitised full text journals does not include current issues.

Rock's backpages library

An online database of rock music writing, with material dating from the early 1960s to the present day. The library of articles includes reviews, interviews and features, which are fully searchable and presented in full-text.

Academic Research Library

Includes journals, magazines and newspapers on a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Includes two subsets: Academic research newspapers (including the New York Times and the Wall Street journal) and Academic research periodicals.

Current Contents Connect

The database provides cover to cover indexing of 6,600+ scholarly research journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The service also incorporates auto alerting features.

Browse all databases for Music

Specialised Resources
Web Sites

Music

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Handbooks: 

Books can be found by browsing the Catalogue, or the shelves at the following call numbers:

M Music (scores)
ML Literature on music
ML159 - 197 History of music
ML 460 - 1354 Instruments and instrumental music
MT Musical instruction and study

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

Key databases

Music Index Online

Index of journal articles about classical and popular music from more that 690 international music periodicals. Includes musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries

RILM abstracts of music literature

A bibliography of music literature which cover all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. It also includes other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy and physics.

RISM online

RISM Series II/A is an annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. It brings together over 380,000 works by more than 18,000 composers into one database.

Classical music library

Classical music library is a classical music service that enables listening and learning at selected library and home computers. It includes recordings, program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.

Naxos music library

Collection of digital music. Comprised of the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues, including classical music, historical and nostalgic recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists.

Other databases

Arts & humanities citation index

A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities. It indexes 1,144 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 6,800 major science and social science journals.

JSTOR

Provides full text articles from music journals. All volumes of each title are available except the last few years.

Academic Research Library

Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

Browse all databases for Music

Multimedia
Multimedia: 

Academic Video Online (Select Opera database)

Music
Music: 

Online scores

Classical Scores Library

Alexander Street Press' Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of classical scores from both in-copyright and public domain editions. The major composers output is represented, as well as many lesser known composers and works. Content includes in-copyright material from Boosey and Hawkes and selected material from the University Music Editions microfilm series.

University of Washington Digital Scores Project

Music Library Digital Scores Collection contains manuscript musical scores dating from the 17th through 19th centuries. The majority of the collection is comprised of 17th and 18th century operas, opera excerpts, and other vocal music.

UCLA Music Scores & Sheet Music Online

From the UCLA Library Collection. Includes jazz and popular scores as well as classical music scores and printed early editions and manuscripts.

Music Australia

Hosted by the National Library of Australia, Music Australia contains Australian scores prior to 1930.

Digital Scores & Libretti, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University

The scores and libretti in the Loeb Music Library Virtual Collection include early editions and manuscript copies of music from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It includes works by J.S. Bach and Bach family members, Mozart, Schubert and other composers, as well as multiple versions of nineteenth century opera scores, seminal works of musical modernism, and music of the Second Viennese School.

IMSLP Petrucci Music Library

The International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores based on the wiki principle.

Early Music Online

Early Music Online has digitised 300 of the world's earliest surviving volumes of printed music, held in the British Library. This project has digitised about a half of the British Library's holdings of 16th-century anthologies of printed music, as listed in RISM B/I (Recueils imprimés XVI-XVII siécles). The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments.

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Not your average jukebox

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The Library of Congress has digitised a huge collection of recordings which users can access via the National Jukebox. If you have ever wondered what Caruso sounded like, or you love Irving Berlin, or you'd like to take a walk down Tin Pan Alley, then this is the place for you. The site contains more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. It brings you the sounds of another era, including performances of opera.