Music Research Guide: Home
What Do You Need?
If you're writing, you need reference databases and print/e-books! If listening or viewing, you need streaming databases or CDs/DVDs!
Use databases anywhere with internet! Print books are in the library to check out or use here. Some major reference books are now also databases.
Look for the additional info button (blue "i") beside a title to learn more!
Resources that publishers have made available during COVID-19
Popular limited time resources are listed below.
Note: You may need to be using TCU VPN to access them.
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Free textbooks online from VitalSourceSeveral publishers are distributing free online copies of textbooks online through Vitalsource. Some of the publishers include Cengage, Elsevier, Kendall Hunt, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and several others.
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Free textbooks online from RedShelfRedShelf is providing free online access to many academic textbooks from a variety of publishers.
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ProQuest eBook CentralCoronavirus-Impacted Libraries get Unlimited Access to current Ebook Central Holdings.
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Cengage EbooksStudents on US campuses get a free subscription to Cengage Unlimited through the remainder of the term, which gives them access to all Cengage ebooks and platforms.
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Bloomsbury Digital ResourcesLaunched in 2017 by Bloomsbury Publishing, the division is focused on providing essential and cutting edge scholarly content in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Kanopy - Great Courses OnlineThanks to the support of The Great Courses team, we're opening up free access to all of The Great Courses available on Kanopy for 30 days. The TCU Library will not be invoiced for any courses viewed in this period.
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Paris Art MuseumParis Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others.
WHAT'S NEW?!?!?! COVID-19
In response to COVID-19, steps we're taking:
1) The entire library building is closed. Physical materials are unavailable. Contact me if you need something and we can check on arrangements.
2) Lots of full text and streaming databases. Look at the database tabs for online resources! Scroll down for "Best of" lists.
3) We are unable to put commercial DVDs into course shells due to copyright and encryption coding. Please see the Video Resources LibGuide https://libguides.tcu.edu/video for alternatives.
4) Lots of ebooks available. Limit catalog search to "ebooks".
5) Contact me if you have issues, need or can't find something.
6) Due dates for materials have been moved to 4/15/20 or 5/15/20. Check your account to see the new due date. If you have a DVD or CD, wait to return it until we reopen. The book drop is murder on those fragile materials.
The Best Music Research Databases!
These are some of the most often used music databases starting with every researcher's first stop: Grove/Oxford Music Online.
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Oxford Music Online (Grove)The "Encyclopedia Britannica" of music. This is the starting point for almost any music research topic. It is NOT journal articles, but a multi-volume database of topics about music like an encyclopedia. Use the bibliographies at the end of the articles to further your research!
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JSTORA great full text, multi-discipline database containing back issues of many journals.
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Music Periodicals DatabaseFull text and abstracts for articles from over 400 international music journals.
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Music OnlineMain interface to navigate all Alexander Street Press databases including Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library and all "** in Video" databases.
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RILM Abstracts of Music LiteratureRILM was a print index of journal article citations. It is now an online database index of citations and abstracts. This database doesn't always have full-text, but it does have many citations of print resources not covered in other databases like conference proceedings, festschriften, reviews, liner notes and other off the beaten path formats.
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Rock's BackpagesArchive of music journalism and writing from 670 of the best music writers from over 4,500 publications (Rolling Stone, NME etc etc), representing over 2,500 artists from all genres of music. Coverage dates: 1950 - present
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Don't Panic! Streaming Options in Troubled Times
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Met Opera on Demand: Student AccessStreaming video or audio of full-length Metropolitan Opera performances including HD theater transmissions, classic telecasts and early radio broadcasts. Included English synopsis and subtitles.
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Music Online: Classical Music LibraryLarge ASP streaming database (over 130,000 tracks) of Western art music from Gregorian Chant to 21st Century. This database supports mobile device download using QR code and playlist creation with free registration.
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Naxos Music LibraryStreaming audio of the Naxos sound recording catalog and other labels.
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Music Online: American Music (formerly American Song)It has been said that music is the soundtrack of our lives. This ASP database contains the soundtrack of American history including Civil War tunes, anti-war protest songs, Civil Rights, Prohibition, American Revolution... the list goes on of the tunes that have marked America's triumphs and tragedies.
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Films on DemandFoD is a growing repository of on-demand video for multiple subject disciplines. Content is from sources such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, PBS, History Channel, National Geographic, TED and television networks such as BBC and CBC. Embedding or linking to videos is possible and transcripts are available.
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KanopyMultidisciplinary educational video database that includes popular, Hollywood and foreign film as well. Performance rights are included with videos in this database. Clips, playlists and embedding are possible. Links are available from "Share/embed" within each video record.