University of Canterbury Subject Guides - Music

All music journals

If you have a journal article reference already: search for the journal title on our Journals page. There may be a choice of print or electronic.

To find articles on a specific topic search in one or more of the specialised databases to which we subscribe. See below...

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
The world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature. Search journals and edited books for articles on any aspect of music or music history.
Oxford Music Online
Full-text, authoritative and detailed information on all aspects of music. Includes Grove Music Online, which has journal article references in the bibliography section for each subject entry.

These databases cover many other subjects as well as music and are useful for cross-disciplinary topics.

JSTOR
All the journals on JSTOR are searchable full-text. Does not contain articles from the 3-4 years.
ERIC
Education database -use to find locate articles on all aspects of music teaching and learning.
Web of Science

This is a great way to locate older articles, and discover who has cited key articles since they were written.

Search a number of journal article databases simultaneously.

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