Pfeiffer Library: Music: Search Options

Find Library Materials

Are you looking for a specific database? Try our A to Z list.

These library provided databases are your best bets! Again, make sure you know your university credentials to utilize these resources off-campus.

Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage plus indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals, including Harvard Business Review.
Music Center This link opens in a new window
Streaming music database of international works in a variety of genres from classical to spoken word with over 78,000 tracks.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

These free web resources may also prove useful.

Teoria: Music Theory Web
Peer reviewed website with music theory tutorial, ear training exercises, and music theory references.
National Jukebox
Historical Recordings from the Library of Congress.
Avant Garde Project
A series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today.
AfriClassical
A nonprofit educational venture promoting awareness of African Heritage in Classical Music.
Monterey Jazz Festival Collection
The festival's archive - preserved by the Stanford University Archive of Recorded Sound - contains recordings of live festival performances throughout the history of this enduring American cultural institution.
RoJaRo Index
Rock, Jazz, Roots, etc. Find information about artists, festivals, magazine, labels, and more.
IMSLP Petrucci Music Library
International Music Score Library Project sharing the world’s public domain music.

Sometimes finding the right keywords can be a struggle. Here is a list of a few ways your can start your search.

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