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Locating Music Articles

The best indexes for articles about Music are:

Music Index

Music Index Online includes more than 655 international music periodicals on topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music. A broad range of subjects are indexed, covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.

Canadian Music Periodical Index

CMPI is an index to Canadian music periodical literature which provides bibliographic sources for information on all aspects of musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly, the database currently includes entries indexed from Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

JSTOR

JSTOR has created a full text digital archive of core scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. The Ryerson University Library has access to two of JSTOR's archival journal collections, including Arts and Sciences I, Arts and Science III.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

A comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world. From hip hop to Handel, from ethnomusicology to music therapy, from elementary music education to advanced music theory, RILM provides bibliographic information, fully cited, abstracted, and indexed.

Factiva

As Canada's newspaper of record for more than 150 years, The Globe and Mail (via Factiva) and its daily Report on Business section are the definitive source for Canadian news and business reporting. Includes Report on Business magazine, published monthly.

Grove Music Online

Includes the full text with ongoing updates of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
In March, 2008, after two years of development, Grove Music Online was relaunched as part of Oxford Music Online, a new gateway for online music resources.

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