Music

Databases A-Z:

Related Subjects:

Dance

Other:

Music Journals

Musicology:

Journal of the American Musicological Society

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1948-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1948-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1948-present.

Publisher: Boston : American Musicological Society,

One of the premier journals in the field, the Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS) publishes scholarship from all fields of musical inquiry: from historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and organology, to performance practice, aesthetics and hermeneutics, ethnomusicology, gender and sexuality, popular music and cultural studies.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Journal of musicology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1982-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1982-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1982-present.

Publisher: St. Joseph, Mich. : Imperial Print. Co.,

The widely-respected Journal of Musicology enters its third decade as one of few comprehensive peer-reviewed journals in the discipline, offering articles in every period, field and methodology of musicological scholarship. Its contributors range from senior scholars to new voices in the field.
Its reach is international, with recent articles by authors from North America, Europe and Australia, and circulation to individuals and libraries throughout the world.
The Journal publishes essential reading on long-standing problems and issues in musicology, on new ideas and approaches, and on directions in the field itself.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Journal of the Royal Musical Association

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1986-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1874-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1874-present.

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

The Journal of the Royal Musical Association was established in 1986 (replacing the Association's Proceedings) and is now one of the major international refereed journals in its field. Its editorial policy is to publish outstanding articles in fields ranging from historical and critical musicology to theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and popular music studies.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Music & letters

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1920-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1920-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1920-present.

Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

Music & Letters is a leading international journal of musical scholarship, publishing articles on topics ranging from antiquity to the present day and embracing musics from classical, popular, and world traditions. Since its foundation in the 1920s, Music & Letters has especially encouraged fruitful dialogue between musicology and other disciplines. It is renowned for its long and lively reviews sections, the most comprehensive and thought-provoking in any musicological journal.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Musical quarterly

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 2002-present except most recent 1 year(s), 1915-1999.
(Haverford College) Available from 1915-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1915-present.

Publisher: New York : G. Schirmer,

The Musical Quarterly, founded in 1915 by Oscar Sonneck, has long been cited as the premier scholarly musical journal in the United States. Over the years it has published the writings of many important composers and musicologists, including Aaron Copland, Arnold Schoenberg, Marc Blitzstein, Henry Cowell, and Camille Saint-Saens. The journal focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Music theory:

Journal of music theory

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1957-2002.
(Haverford College) Available from 1957-2005.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1957-2005.

Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Yale School of Music,

The Journal of Music Theory is the oldest music-theory journal now published in the United States. It fosters conceptual and technical innovations in abstract, systematic musical thought and cultivates the historical study of musical concepts and compositional techniques. The journal publishes research with important and broad applications in the analysis of music and the history of music theory as well as theoretical or metatheoretical work that engages and stimulates ongoing discourse in the field. While remaining true to its original formalist outlook, the journal also addresses the influences of philosophy, mathematics, computer science, cognitive sciences, and anthropology on music theory.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Music theory spectrum

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1979-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1979-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1979-present.

Publisher: Berkeleg, Calif. : University of California Press.

Music Theory Spectrum is the official print journal of the Society for Music Theory and includes feature articles and book reviews on all topics that intersect with music theory and analysis, such as aesthetics, the history of theory, linear analysis, atonal theory, transformational networks, and narratology. Periodic special issues encourage contributors to delve deeply into one area of musical study.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Perspectives of new music

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1962-2002.
(Haverford College) Available from 1962-2002.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1962-2002.

Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Published by Princeton University Press for the Fromm Music Foundation,

Perspectives of New Music is directed to a readership consisting of composers, performers, scholars, and all others interested in any kind of contemporary music. Published material includes theoretical research, analyses, technical reports, position papers by composers, sociological and philosophical articles, interviews, reviews, and, for special purposes, short musical scores or other creative productions.
» journal's homepage

Special interest:

American music (Champaign, Ill. : Online)

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1983-2005.
(Haverford College) Available from 1983-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1983-2006.

Publisher: Champaign, Ill. : Sonneck Society and the University of Illinois Press,

Now in its 25th year, American Music publishes articles on American composers, performers, publishers, institutions, events, and the music industry, as well as book and recording reviews, bibliographies, and discographies. Article topics have included the lyricism of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell's "sliding tones," Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Henry Brant's "Spatial Music," the reception and transformation of pop icons such as Presley and Sinatra, and the history and analysis of blues, jazz, folk music, and mixed and emerging musical styles.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Black music research journal

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1980-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1980-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1980-present.

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : Institute for Research in Black American Music, Fisk University,

Begun in 1980, BMRJ is published twice yearly and includes articles about the philosophy, aesthetics, history, and criticism of black music.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Cambridge opera journal

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1989-2002.
(Haverford College) Available from 1989-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1989-present.

Publisher: Cambridge, England ; Cambridge University Press,

The Cambridge Opera Journal has been the preeminent forum for scholarship on opera in all its manifestations. The Journal publishes essays not only on all aspects of the European operatic tradition, but also on American opera and musical theatre, on non-Western music theatres, on contemporary opera production, and on the theory and historiography of opera. Carefully researched and often illustrated with music examples and pictures, articles adopt a wide spectrum of critical approaches. As well as major articles, each issue includes reviews of recent important publications in the field.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Early music

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1973-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1973-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1973-present.

Publisher: London : Oxford University Press,

Early Music is a stimulating and richly illustrated journal, and is unrivalled in its field. Founded in 1973, it remains the journal for anyone interested in early music and how it is being interpreted today. Contributions from scholars and performers on international standing explore every aspect of earlier musical repertoires, present vital new evidence for our understanding of the music of the past, and tackle controversial issues of performance practice.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Ethno-musicology

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1953-2003.
(Haverford College) Available from 1953-2003.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1953-2003.

Publisher: [S.l. : s.n.],

Ethnomusicology, is a refereed journal published three times each year by the University of Illinois Press. It features scholarly articles representing theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields from an international perspective, as well as book, record, and film reviews. In addition, a current bibliography, discography, and film/videography is published on this website in conjunction with each journal issue.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Music perception

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 2002-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 2001-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 2002-present.

Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press.

Chart the ongoing scholarly discussion and study of musical phenomena with Music Perception. Publishing original empirical and theoretical papers, methodological articles and critical reviews from renowned scientists and musicians, Music Perception is a repository of insightful research. In a range of disciplines from Psychology, Psychophysics, Linguistics , Neurology, Neurophysiology, Artificial intelligence, Computer technology, Physical and architectural acoustics, and Music theory.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

19th-century music

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1977-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1977-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1977-present.

Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

19th-Century Music covers all aspects of Western art music between the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries and includes considerations of composers and compositions, styles, performance, historical watersheds, cultural formations, critical methods, musical institutions, and ideas.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage

Women & music

Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 2001-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1999-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1999-present.

Publisher: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press.

Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture is a scholarly publication. Representing a wide range of disciplines and approaches, the referred journal seeks to further the understanding of the relationship among gender, music and culture, with special attention given to the concerns of women.
» browse current issue » journal's homepage