Music Resources
All music related databases available through ASU Library
Academic Search Ultimate
Access popular press magazines, newspapers, and peer-reviewed scholarly journals across various academic disciplines. Also includes historic Associated Press videos.
Alexander Street
Streaming access to documentaries, films, and primary sources in arts, health, history, music, psychology, and social sciences for educational and research purposes.
Analecta hymnica medii aevi digitalia
Contains the texts of hymns of the early Catholic Church. The complete digital edition allows for searching the full text of the hymns, including the bibliographic references to manuscripts and prints in Latin.
Anthropology Plus
Search for journal articles, reports, and materials in anthropology and archaeology from the 18th century to the present, covering 50+ languages with monthly updates.
Artstor Collections on JSTOR
Explore millions of high-quality, curated images from global museums, archives, and artists. Includes publicly accessible files from JSTOR’s journals and primary sources.
ASU Library Repository Services
Arizona State University's institutional repository, housing scholarly outputs and other administrative, creative, and cultural materials.
ASU School of Music Performance Archive
Devoted to the preservation and dissemination of recordings of performances offered by the School of Music, Dance and Theatre from 1985 to the present day. Content is derived from undergraduate and graduate student recitals, faculty performances, and concerts given by the School’s various ensembles. It provides streaming access to a wide range of music, some of which has never been available on commercial sound recordings. In creating this archive, it is the intent of the ASU Library to provide a freely available, valuable, electronic resource for the scholarly study of music.
ASU Sheet Music Collection
Consists of approximately 30,000 pieces of uncataloged sheet music ranging from the late 1800s through the 1980s. Pre-1928 titles will be made available in digital format.
The sheet music in the digital repository is presented as part of the historical record. The topics, illustrations, and language reflect the attitudes and beliefs of earlier times. Arizona State University does not endorse the views expressed in these materials that may contain images and text that are offensive to some users.
ASU Song Index
Index of songs and musical compositions held by Arizona State University Music Library.
Brepolis Medieval and Early Modern Bibliographies
Indexes articles, notes, and similar literature on medieval subjects in journals, Festschriften, conference proceedings, and collected essays. Covers all aspects of medieval studies within the date range of 400 to 1500 for the entire continent of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa for the period before the Muslim conquest and parts of those areas subsequently controlled by Christian powers. Includes more than 300,000 articles published 1967- , all of which are fully classified by date, subject and location.
Dance Online: Dance in Video
Streaming access to performances, documentaries, and instructional videos featuring influential dance companies and performers from the 20th century to today, covering diverse styles such as ballet, modern, and jazz, as well as experimental dance.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
Coverage: Varies
A streaming online database providing access to licensed commercial and archival recordings of American musical works. In addition to high quality sound files, DRAM provides full liner notes, scholarly articles and other research materials.
Digital Theatre+
A digital streaming collection of over 1000 full-length films of Shakespeare plays, modern dramas, classical music, dance, musicals, opera and adaptations of classic novels. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts. Learning resources include a detailed introduction, plot summary, character biographies, a relationship map, language analysis, scene study, performance background and historical context for each play.
Disability in the Modern World
This multimedia collection covers the 20th-century Disability Rights Movement, focusing on disability theory, arts, advocacy, politics, independence, accessibility, and intersectionality. Includes e-books, e-journals, streaming video, and more.
Dissertations & Theses @ Arizona State University
Coverage: 1954-1979 (index only), 1979+ (full text of the dissertations included)
A searchable database for full text, citations and abstracts of ASU dissertations
Dissertations & Theses Global
Coverage: 1861+
A comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses that includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and provides strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (American Musicological Society)
Full text is not provided!
An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Drama Online
Explore by: Genres and forms: Musical theatre
Explore by: Themes: Music
A research database that combines playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations and audio plays. This database is intended for drama and literature students, professors and teachers.
Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English in 1473 to 1700, the EEBO contains over 125,000 titles printed in the British Isles and British North America.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Includes every significant English and foreign-language title printed in the UK, along with important works from the Americas between 1701 and 1800, comprising over 32 million pages of text across 180,000 titles and 205,000 volumes.
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online
Surveys the origins and development of the Bible in Judaism and Christianity, and other Western and non-Western religious movements; and documents its reception and influence through diverse cultural, textual, literary, musical, and cinematographic manifestations.
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Coverage: 1880 – 2015
A digitized collection of primary source American and British periodicals focused on broadcasting, film, music, radio, television, theater and video games. With content dating back to 1880, it is the definitive source for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies to the present.
Ethnic NewsWatch
Provides articles from minority presses, including African American, American Indian, Arab, Asian, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, and Jewish sources, with coverage starting from 1990.
Filmakers Library Online
Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Films on Demand
A collection of high-quality educational streaming videos organized by subject. Each title features Individual earning Objects that break down the content into smaller segments.
Additional Info: Faculty, please note: When linking to or sharing a hyperlink for a specific video: When connected to an individual video recording, copy and paste the Title URL (located under the film description). For off campus use, URLs must include the “ezproxy” information.
Godey's Lady's Book: 1830-1898
Full-text collection from a leading 19th-century women’s magazine includes fiction, poetry, essays, reviews, music, and fashion illustrations, along with digital images of advertisements and artwork, offering a rich resource for studying women's history and culture.
Google Scholar (with Library Links)
Identify and access scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed journal articles, books, theses and dissertations, conference papers, pre-prints, technical reports, and other publications for all research disciplines. Using this hyperlink instead of the general scholar.google.com enables ASU affiliates to include ASU Library’s full text and InterLibrary Loan Services in a search.
Grove Music Online
Maximum Concurrent Users: 11
Written and edited by nearly 9,000 subject experts, Grove’s 52,000 articles offer clear overviews of topics from a scholarly perspective and include extensive bibliographies, which are curated to guide users through existing scholarship. Grove’s 33,000 biographical articles provide life information and detailed works lists for composers, performers, and other important musical figures. Grove Music Online also features more than 5,000 images, musical examples, and links to audio and video examples.
Hemispheric Institute
Houses a vast collection of invaluable materials related to performance in the Americas, including online archives of hundreds of hours of video footage; a series of multimedia casebooks devoted to specific artists, companies or themes; as well as curated pedagogical modules that include scholarly texts, course syllabi, interviews, image galleries, and more. Materials are in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective: 1907-1984 (H.W. Wilson)
Bibliographic database that provides citations to articles in a wide range of English language journals in the humanities and social sciences for the period 1907-1984.
Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes articles in the fields of archaeology and classical studies, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, communications,language, literature, literary and political criticism, performing arts, philosophy, religion, etc.
JSTOR
Access millions of articles, books, and primary sources, focusing on back issues of scholarly journals; an essential resource for research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes AI assistant: JSTOR's interactive research tool.
JSTOR Daily
A free daily magazine contextualizes current events and features articles that explore the hidden depths of newsy topics. All stories link to free, publicly accessible research on JSTOR.
Judaica Sound Archives
Please note that to gain full access to this resource requires registration at RSA Research Station Registration.
An online searchable archive of Judaica sound recordings. Includes recordings of Yiddish, Hebrew and Sephardic music in any language from the various countries where Jews have lived, both secular and religious. The music is provided in a non-downloadable streaming audio format.
Kanopy
Browse: Subjects: Music, Theatre & Dance
Streaming video service, which provides access to titles covering various educational topics and feature films for various producers including Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS, and others.
MGG Online
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart is a German-language encyclopedia featuring scholarly articles on music and related fields such as literature, philosophy, and the arts.
Music ID
An academic research tool that utilizes powerful analytics to compile global music industry data into three, easy-to-use platforms: Music ID Data, Music ID Revenue, and Music ID Impact. Music ID Data gathers download and stream information as well as contemporary and historical data from Billboard, the Official Charts Company and Germany's GfK Entertainment. Music ID Revenue provides information about the highest earning recordings of the 21st century, and with data going back to 1900, Music ID Impact covers the history of popular music and provides data on top artists, songs, and albums for every year.
Music Index
Covers a variety of music, from classical to popular. Includes topics on music, book and recording reviews, highlights of new performances, and obituaries, spanning from 1979 to 1998.
Music Online: African American Music Reference
A comprehensive reference collection chronicling the rich history of African American music. It provides access to a variety of sources including anthologies, biographies, chronologies, discographies, encyclopedias, and textbooks.
Music Online: American Music
A streaming online music database and fully searchable resource. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Liner notes to all the albums are included in PDF format.
Music Online: Classical Music Library
A streaming online classical music database providing access to licensed recordings sourced from many major music labels. The site also includes program notes.
Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
A comprehensive music reference database. It features content found in Baker's Dictionary of Music and includes coverage of all classical genres, definitions of musical terms, and biographical information on the major composers and artists.
Music Online: Classical Scores Library, Volume I
Explore important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material in digital format, spanning music from the Renaissance to the 21st century.
Music Online: Contemporary World Music
Genres include world, folk, Latin, contemporary, traditional, hip-hop/rap, reggae, dance, jazz, instrumental, and vocal + choral. Offers Basic and Advanced search options as well as multiple Browse options: Cultural Groups. Genres. Instruments. People. Performers / Ensembles. Places. Publishers. Titles..
Music Online: Jazz Music Library
Offers the largest collection of streaming jazz music available online, with recordings from key genres, artists, and labels spanning the history of jazz. It’s essential for studying jazz history, performance, and appreciation.
Music Online: Listening
Explore a vast collection of streaming music across multiple genres, supporting music research, teaching, and personal discovery with millions of tracks and continuously updated albums.
Music Online: Opera in Videox
A streaming video database containing important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's leading performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.
Music Online: Popular Music Library
Explore a vast collection of popular music from all genres and eras. Ideal for studying the development of popular music and its cultural impact through high-quality streaming audio.
Music Online: Reference
Comprised of four resources -- African American Music Reference, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, and The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Produced in partnership with and including the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, this streaming database provides access to a variety of resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. It also includes field recordings recorded around the African continent, the South Asian subcontinent and North America.
Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. In addition to articles by expert contributors, it provides streaming access to audio recordings.
Music Periodicals Database
Coverage: 1874+
Maximum Concurrent Users: 4
A specialized online index of popular and scholarly music journals. It includes articles found in international music periodicals, and features music articles and obituaries appearing in prominent newspapers and other publications.
Naxos Music Library
A comprehensive streaming library of classical, jazz, and world music tracks, along with educational materials and playlists.
Naxos Sheet Music
Digital sheet music in all classical genres from Medieval to the 21st century, allowing users to download and print scores using the Solero viewer, which enables transposing, tempo adjustment, and listening to selections.
Naxos Video Library
A streaming video collection of classical music performances, opera, ballet, theater productions, and documentaries from major performing arts companies worldwide.
Neue Mozart Ausgabe Online
Find digitized scores and critical commentaries of Mozart's complete works, offering searchable access by Köchel number, key, editor, and more.
Nexis Uni
Identify and locate full text of various newspapers, trade publications, legal periodicals, and journals. Includes company directories, financial reports, biographies, federal/state laws, regulations, court opinions, and news transcripts.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources)
Global digitized primary source collections from the long nineteenth century, including rare monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, photographs, and more in Western and non-Western languages, curated by international experts.
Oxford Bibliographies: Music
Provides expert-curated, annotated citations covering music history, theory, ethnomusicology, performance, and related fields.
Oxford Music Online
Maximum Concurrent Users: 11
An integrated music resource including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.); The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed.); The Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.); The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (2nd ed.); The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd ed.; and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference
Brings together into a single cross-searchable resource encyclopedias and scholarly reference titles from many of Oxford University Press language and subject reference works.
PBS Video Collection
A collection of over 1,600 streaming videos, including documentaries and series covering a wide range of topics such as science, history, art, and business from one of television’s most trusted networks.
Periodicals Index Online
Coverage: 1700-1995
An electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1995
Project MUSE Journals and Books
A collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and e-books from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers, and scholarly societies, offering full-text content in literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
The Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is one of the richest and most comprehensive full-text resources of scholarly music research.
RILM Music Encyclopedias
It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important disciplines, fields, and subject areas, among them popular music, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries and languages--English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek.
RIPM - With Full Text
Provides annotated indexes to the content of complete runs of music journals published in 17 countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. RIPM = Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals.
Rock's Backpages
The world's most comprehensive online database of pop music writing -- a unique resource unavailable elsewhere online. It contains an ever-expanding collection of primary-source full-text articles from the music and mainstream press from the 1950s to the present day.
Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance 1889-2013
Explore the history of a major theater company through prompt books, production records, costume designs, photographs, and music files, highlighting over a century of iconic productions.
Theatre in Video
Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video.
Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (Gale Primary Sources)
Covers books, plays, films and exhibitions. Weekly book reviews discuss fiction, poetry, history, politics, philosophy, travel, archaeology, classics, music, etc. Special issues cover the U.S.A., China, Japan, the Middle East, France & Germany.