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• Grove Music Online
  Comprehensive encyclopedia of Western art music (“classical music”), with general coverage of jazz, non-Western, and folk music. Also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Oxford Companion to Music.

  Also Known As

  • New Grove Music Online
  • Oxford Music Online

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  Contains the full text of the largest and most comprehensive music encyclopedias in the English language, including the twenty-nine-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the three-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition).

  • Grove Music Online has full-text search capabilities and subject classifications for browsing.
  • Articles are written by scholars with subject expertise and include bibliographies pointing to important works of scholarship on the topic.
  • Topics include musical genres and forms, musical instruments; places; organizations and institutions; musicology, theory, and criticism; and people (e.g., composers, performers, scholars, librettists, patrons, publishers, instrument makers, and others who influenced or contributed to the world of music).
  • Many of the composer biographies include detailed lists of works.
  • Many articles include visual examples, Sibelius-enabled musical examples (score and audio clips), and links to Web sites and audio archives.
  • Annual updates include new articles and corrections to older articles.

  Note: Some of the print equivalents are available in the Music & Dramatic Arts Library (e.g., Music Ref. ML 100 .N48 2001 for the twenty-nine volume New Grove). Consult HOMER, the UConn Libraries' catalog for further details.

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• JSTOR
  Essential scholarly journals in many academic fields, especially arts, literature, humanities, and biology. Some back to early 1900s; most recent 2-5 years not available.
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  Subjects include:

  • African American Studies
  • African Studies
  • American Indian Studies
  • Anthropology
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture & Architectural History
  • Art & Art History
  • Asian Studies
  • Botany
  • Business
  • Classical Studies
  • Ecology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Feminist & Women's Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Finance
  • Folklore
  • General Science
  • Geography
  • History
  • History of Science & Technology
  • Language & Literature
  • Latin American Studies
  • Law
  • Mathematics
  • Middle East Studies
  • Music
  • Performing Arts
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Population Studies
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy & Administration
  • Religion
  • Slavic Studies
  • Sociology
  • Statistics

  UConn subscribes to all available JSTOR Collections.

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
  Indexes every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. 1861-present; full-text 1997 to present.

  Also Known As

  • Dissertation Abstracts

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• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
  Indexes scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. Includes citations and abstracts for journal articles, essays, Festschriften, dissertations, books, scholarly reviews, etc. International coverage, including non-English languages. 1967-current.
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  RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (also known as Repertoire International de LittératureMusicale or International Repertory of Music Literature) is produced under the joint auspices of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres at the RILM International Center at the City University of New York. (Learn more about RILM from the publisher's site.)

  • Covers all aspects of music, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments and voice, dance, and music therapy. The database also covers various other fields as they relate to music, including librarianship, literature, dramatic arts, visual arts, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and physics.
  • Offers citations in 202 languages, including original language titles and English translations, full bibliographic information, abstracts in English, and in-depth subject indexes.
  • In includes all formats of scholarly works -- articles (including non-music journals), books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, conference proceedings and more. Concert reviews, recordings notes, and pedagogical manuals are included if they are of scholarly interest. See scope notes for more details.
  • Updated monthly.
  • Online version covers 1967-present. Print equivalent is at Music Ref. ML 118 R48 (1967-1998).

  Tools to Help You Use RILM

  • Journal Titles indexed in RILM
  • RILM Classifications help you limit by category (e.g., musicology, pedagogy, theory).
  • RILM Publication Type Codes Use these to limit by pub type (e.g., article, dissertation).
  • Field Codes (e.g., TI=title, AU=author, SO=source, PY=publication year, etc.) can be helpful when searching. To learn more, consult "Help" in RILM.

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• WorldCat
  Catalog of books, journals, DVDs, CDs, scores, and sound recordings from over 9,000 libraries. 40 million records representing 400 languages. Covers information back to the 11th Century. Includes items at the University of Connecticut Libraries. Request items not at UConn via Interlibrary Loan..
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  WorldCat indicates if UConn owns the item, but it does not have UConn’s specific call numbers for books, music, and scripts, and it does not have any AV call numbers.

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