A.C. Buehler Library: MUS 343 / 344 History and Literature of Music: Articles

What's on this tab?

Use this tab to find articles from scholarly journals. Scholarly articles in music can cover music history or theory, performance practice, and biographical information.

Besides library databases, you can find references to scholarly articles in Oxford Music Online in the bibliographies, as well as in published book bibliographies of certain kinds of music, composers, etc.

Library Databases

The library recommends several databases that cover music as well as history and culture. Be sure to evaluate the sources in these databases before using them.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Contains over 700,000 entries pertaining to vocal and musical instruments; historical and ethnomusicology; notation, theory, criticism, and analysis; pedagogy; liturgy, dance, and other interdisciplinary studies of music and related areas from over 11,000 journals in 200 languages.
Music Online This link opens in a new window
Browse or search this comprehensive database of streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. More than 515,000 albums, over 6 million audio tracks, over 24,000 books, documents and music scores, and over 1700 hours of video are included.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
An electronic archive of journal titles in a variety of disciplines, often going back to the first issue of a journal's existence. In addition, a collection of over 1.8 million digital images of paintings, photos, architectural works, sculptures, and design pieces from around the world from all time periods.
Humanities Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Presents a rich collection of full-text humanities journals, surpassing any other database of its kind in terms of peer-reviewed content.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An online library of over 325 journals from 120 scholarly publishers. Some full text dates back to 1993. Journals in this collection cover primarily the arts and humanities, and the social sciences.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts from over 12,500 periodicals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, and others, with full text articles from 8,500 titles, including more than 7,300 that are peer-reviewed. Almost every topic of study is covered. The database is updated daily, and includes searchable cited references from more than 1,400 journals.

How Can I Find Articles That Are Not Full-Text?

Citation Linker - Bluejay Search
Elmhurst University's Citation Linker - Bluejay Search allows you to input a citation, DOI or PMID and retrieve the item if it is available in full text.
Interlibrary Loan Article Request Form
Use this form to request articles not available through the A.C. Buehler library's databases.

Other Places to Find Musical Analyses

UT Analysis Index
from the University of Tennessee Knoxville; the Analysis Index provides access to program notes and descriptions or analyses of musical compositions in books owned by the UT Music Library. This index does not duplicate the indexing available in Harold Diamond's book, Music Analyses: An Annotated Guide to the Literature, 1991.

Music Analyses by Harold J. Diamond
Call Number: R 781.016 D537M
ISBN: 0028701100
Publication Date: 1991
Analyses of Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000 by D. J. Hoek
Call Number: 780.9034 H693A 2007
ISBN: 9780810858879
Publication Date: 2007
Available as an e-book or in the library's main collection.