The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. It covers leaders from A to Z and as of January 2008 contains: 34,861 leaders; 181,392 recording sessions; 1,030,109 musician entries and 1,077,503 tune entries.

The period covered by TJD Online is from 1896 to 2008 inclusive. – Publisher’s blurb.

Music Educators Journal offers scholarly and practical articles on music teaching approaches and philosophies, instructional techniques, current trends and issues in music education in schools and communities and the latest in products and services. – Publisher’s blurb.

IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 3775 texts including 550 opera-aria texts.   The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. Translations into English from multiple languages.

(Access restricted to the Evanston campus)

The Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa aims to combine ethnomusicological, musicological, music educational and performance-based research in a unique way to promote the musical arts on the African continent. The journal provides practical suggestions for music teachers as well as general arts and culture practitioners on instrumental and vocal training. – publisher’s blurb.

Black Music Research Journal is published in the spring and fall of each year and includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music. BMRJ is an official journal of the Center for Black Music Research.

Earlier issues available via JSTOR.

Covers all aspects of global health, including physical and mental health entries, biographies of major doctors and researchers, profiles of medical institutions, organizations, and corporations, descriptions of drugs and operations, articles on national health policies, and thematic health topics in the humanities. – Publisher’s blurb.

The quarterly Journal of Research in Music Education comprises reports of original research related to music teaching and learning. The wide range of topics includes various aspects of music pedagogy, history, and philosophy, and addresses vocal, instrumental, and general music at all levels, from early childhood through adult. – Publisher’s blurb.

Grove Music Online has now become the cornerstone of Oxford’s online music reference collection, Oxford Music Online. Over the past few years, Grove Music Online has undergone extensive technical work to improve functionality and to create a site that meets the highest possible accessibility standards.

Oxford Music Online also includes two of Oxford’s outstanding single volume reference works on music: The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition Revised. Searched independently or together with Grove, these will offer a new short reference dimension to Grove’s extensive coverage.

African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Research into the music of Africa has for many years been concentrated in the American and European diaspora. It has further been characterised by the same divisions as music research elsewhere, be they between ethnomusicologists and musicologists, or theorists and historians. The journal wishes to establish a unified African voice for African music research. Through its juxtaposition of the historical and the theoretical, the indigenous, the popular and the ‘Western’, it intends to reflect the diversity of African musics and the research that they inspire.