Subject Guide
Finding Music Articles
For everything from the latest research to classic musicological studies, start here to find articles on your music topic.
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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)Search scholarly journals, professional and trade association journals, general and specialty interest magazines, and newspapers
Find a Topic
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Oxford Music Online (Grove Music)Browse this extensive (and extensively referenced) music resource in order to develop or focus a music research topic.
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Journal of the American Musicological SocietyResearch journal covering all areas of music, from critical theory to performance practice.
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Classical NetFree online music source exploring the world of classical music, from basic repertoire to obscure and unknown composers. Includes a buying guide and recent news from the world of classical music.
Encyclopedias and Background Resources
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Oxford Music Online (Grove Music)Composer, performer and librettist biographies, encyclopedic coverage of music genre and form, works lists. Combines the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music. Your professor told you to "use Grove". This is it.
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Oxford History of Western MusicRichard Taruskin's classic and exhaustive study of the Western classical tradition, from the earliest musical notation to the late twentieth century.
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Credo ReferenceAn online tool that provides access to hundreds of background sources covering every major subject.
Accessing and Downloading Articles
There are three main ways that you can access articles in full text through the library. Most of our journals are in digital format, but these methods work for print, too.
Directly from the database you're searching: Look for a PDF or HTML link.
Via "Check the PLU Library for full text": If you see this link, click it. The Article Linker will show you all the ways that article is available, including whether it's part of our print collection.
Via Interlibrary Loan: If this is the only option the Article Linker offers you, don't worry! We can get almost any article, at no charge to you. Most are delivered online within a few days of your request. (It works for books, too!)