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- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Comprehensive online encyclopedia devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
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Comprehensive online encyclopedia devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume has an overview of a geographic region; a survey of the region’s musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of its musical genres, practices, and performances. Detailed photographs show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. This release includes the entire set of ten volumes. Future releases will contain links to the associated audio examples for each volume.
Print version at Music Library: ML 100 G16 1998 Music Ref.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- Classical Music Library
Streamed classical recordings selected from several labels.
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- Alexander Street Press Music
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The service works on Macs and PCs with a browser and requires no special software.
Audio tracks have permanent URLs that can be incorporated into personal playlists and course folders, syllabi, or digital course reserve.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- Contemporary World Music
Streamed audio recordings include reggae, world beat, world fusion, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, fado, flamenco, gagaku, gospel, Indian classical, klezmer, zydeco, etc.
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- Alexander Street Press Music
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The service works on Macs and PCs with a browser and requires no special software.
Audio tracks have permanent URLs that can be incorporated into personal playlists and course folders, syllabi, or digital course reserve.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- Mergent Manuals
The Mergent WebReports provides access to a complete run of the Moody's/Mergent manuals. It covers corporate histories including business descriptions, & information on properties, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long-term debt, financial statements
With the exception of the Municipal and Government volume, the database covers the following manuals:
Industrial Manual (1920-present)
Public Utility Manual (1914-present)
OTC Industrial Manual (1970-present)
OTC Unlisted Manual (1986-present)
Transportation Manual (1909-present)
International Manual (1981-present)
Bank and Finance Manual (1928-present)
To begin, click on Search MergentWebReports. Search for any combination of Company Name, Year, and Manual. For company name, use * as a wildcard. It can be used at the end, middle, or beginning of the name.
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- Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Streamed historical sound recordings from around the world. From Smithsonian/Folkways.
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- Alexander Street Press Music
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Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.
The service works on Macs and PCs with a browser and requires no special software.
Audio tracks have permanent URLs that can be incorporated into personal playlists and course folders, syllabi, or digital course reserve.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
- 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.
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- 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.
Access restricted to University of Connecticut.
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