MSM Library: Introduction to Music Research: Journals

Journals and Periodicals through MSM

Many print journals and periodicals have been made available digitally in the last decade. Manhattan School of Music subscribes to the following databases:

JSTOR
Over 70 journals and 50 ebooks about music: indexing, keyword searching, and full text.
Music Periodicals Database
More than half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from periodicals dating from 1874 to today.

Journals and Periodicals through NYPL

There are several important databases that are available for free through the New York Public Library (with your NYPL library card):

New York Times Archive -- Browse over 150 years of the New York Times from 1851 to 2002.
RILM -- "The online version of the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969-present) is a continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including full text records in over 202 languages from 3,700 journals"
RIPM : Online Archive of Music Periodicals: 1800-1950 --"Full text archive of specialized music journals, daily newspapers, articles in literary periodicals, theatrical journals and magazines, as well as engravings and lithographs in the illustrated press.