Library & Internet Resources for Music

JCU Resources | Electronic Databases | Organisations | General Resources
|Specialised Resources | Electronic Journals

JCU Resources

• JCU School of Creative Arts
• Library and Computing Services

Electronic Databases

• JCU Electronic Databases
  Links to all databases subscribed to by JCU Library. Access to these is only available to students and staff of James Cook University.
  
  If you are off campus login via Remote access.
  
  
• Music Index Online
  A subject-author guide to music periodical literature covering over 800 international music periodicals and offering the researcher access to a wealth of historiographic, ethnographic, and musicological data. A broad range of subjects is indexed, including musicians, the history of music, forms of music, musical instruments from the earliest times to computer produced music. In addition, book reviews, reviews of music recordings, tapes, and performances are indexed. First performances and obituaries are noted.
  
  
• Naxos Music Library This database provides access to over 5,000 CDs of music recordings which can be played online. You can search for music by genre, composer, title of piece, and other variables listed in the 'advanced search' option. Notes on the works and biographical information on composers and performers are also available. (Nb. You need Internet Explorer 6.0 and Media Player 9.0 to play the recordings.)
  
  
• Grove Music Online
  "Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). Articles that have been updated since their appearance in print are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen".
  
  
• Informit
  Informit provides access to a range of Australian databases including APAIS and Australian Education Index
  
  
• Infotrac
  Expanded Academic ASAP International on Infotrac includes a number of fulltext articles.
  
  
• Proquest
  Proquest provides articles in abstract as well as full text across a range of subjects in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities - including music. Use the search box to find articles, or browse the broad subjects Music & musicians, Musical instruments and Types of music. The full-text journals include: The American Music Teacher, American Record Guide, Billboard, Downbeat, Guitar Player, The Instrumentalist , Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Keyboard, Music Educators Journal, Musical Times, Opera News, Perspectives of New Music, Rolling Stone, Strings, Teaching Music and Variety.
  
  
• Web of Science
  Includes Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
  
  
• Xrefer This online, full text, reference library includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject specific titles from art, to literature, to law.
  
  

Organisations

• Access Arts A Queensland based non-profit community professional arts organisation which assists people experiencing disability and disadvantage to pursue their ambitions in the arts.
• Arts Nexus A non profit, member-based regional arts development and cultural industry association providing services for the arts, entertainment and cultural sector in Far North Queensland. Based in Cairns.
• Arts Queensland
• Australia Council for the Arts
• APRA - Australasian Performing Rights Association
• Australian Music Centre
• Culture & Recreation Portal Directory of Australian cultural organisations and resources.
• Music Centre North Queensland (Formerly Townsville Community Music Centre).
• Music Council of Australia
• Queensland Arts Council
• Queensland Conservatorium of Music
• Queensland Music Network

General Music Resources

• All-music Guide
• Online Resources for Music Scholars
  Harvard's Music Library maintains a list of links to more than 300 scholarly music resources on the Internet.
• Intute: Music and Performing Arts Websites selected and evaluated by subject specialists.
• MusicAustralia "Provides access to descriptions of 143790 resources, 10511 of them available online, and 4385 people associated with Australian music." Developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive.
• The Music Pages Resources for the study, composition, and enjoyment of music.
• Music Resources From the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki.
• Musician's Health
  Cause and prevention of injuries commonly suffered by musicians
• The Muze Includes biographies, sound clips, and more for rock, jazz and classical music.
• National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources From the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.

Specialised Music Resources

• Andante Major site devoted to classical music
  
• Atlas of Plucked Instruments 'An encyclopedia of the plucked instruments of lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin type'.
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation Online ABC Classic FM
  
• Classical Net Reviews of more than 1650 CDs, 5500 files and nearly 4000 links to other classical music web sites
  
• Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
• Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net Collection of music theory tutorials and interactive exercises.
• DW3 Classical Music Resources
  Comprehensive collection of non-commercial sites in over a dozen languages arranged in over one hundred searchable pages.
  
• Music History 102: A Guide to Western Composers and their Music from the Middle Ages to the Present
• The Symphony: An Interactive Guide
  Biographical and musical information on the great symphonic composers of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries
  
• Welcome to the Wonderful World of Baroque Music
• BluesNet
  
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive
  History of jazz before 1930
  
• A Jazz Improvisation Primer An online version of the text by Marc Sabatella.
• A Passion for Jazz
• Smithsonian Global Sound From the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Aims to preserve and disseminate a broad range of the world's music.
• Choral Public Domain Library
  Large amount of choral music downloadable as PDF or MIDI files
  
• Operabase Opera resources on the web
  
• Aria Database Information on over 1000 operatic arias.
• Musicals101.com: the Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre, TV and Film
• Instrument Encyclopedia "A sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments"
• Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
• Virtual Instrument Museum
• WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists From the American Musicological Society.

Electronic Journals

• JCU Library Electronic Journals Find journals by title or browse by subject.
• MikroPolyphonie Online journal which aims to encourage analysis and discussion in any genre of contemporary music making and research.
• Music Theory Online

 

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