LibGuides: Music: Key Resources

Key Resources for Music

The following databases contain a variety of material, including journal articles, for your specific subject area. The brief descriptions beneath the titles will explain what each hold. To access, click on the title.

Alexander Street Press Video Collection
Access to a large number of videos across a wide range of subject areas. The University does not subscribe to all the content within the collection.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
A streaming service for UK higher education, containing a searchable archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts dating back to the 1990s. New broadcasts added daily. Record from 75+ channels, create clips, search transcripts, compile playlists and more.
You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list. (New users will need to register their Sussex email address.)
Humanities Index
An international research database for arts and humanities, indexing articles from over 370 scholarly journals, weekly magazines, and quality newspapers from the UK, the US, and other English-speaking countries. Updated monthly, with coverage from 1962.
Subjects: Architecture, Art, Cultural Studies, Film, Gender studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Religion.
British Periodicals
Access to the searchable full text of hundreds of periodicals from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth, comprising millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the social sciences, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
Gramophone
A magazine devoted to classical music, particularly recordings. This resource is being cancelled at the end of the year and will not be avaialble from 2025.
JSTOR
Provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Also includes: 34,000 research reports from more than 140 policy institutes on climate change, cybersecurity, energy policy, international relations, terrorism, and various public health issues. Primary sources from important and rare collections from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world including Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets and Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. Thematic collections focusing on emerging areas of research includes Lives of Literature, Security Studies, and Sustainability.
Kanopy (now via Library Search)
You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
Notes from the Podium
A unique quarterly online journal that publishes in-depth interviews with conductors from all over the world and all areas of the profession. Requires an additional login to access the full text. Click here for information about logging in.
Oxford History of Western Music
A landmark study on western music by musicologist Richard Taruskin. Links to Oxford Music Online. Covers centuries of musical invention and its interaction with culture, politics and art.
Oxford Music Online (Includes Grove Music Online)
Enables users to access and search Grove Music Online, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Periodicals Archive Online
Access to the full text of hundreds of journal archives. Database spans more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas and multiple languages.
Rock's Backpages
Archive of music journalism covering all genres of popular music; 1950s to the present day. Articles, video interviews, concert and album reviews from major magazines and newspapers.
Scopus
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.

Classical Scores

Classical Scores Library
This five-volume digital collection features works from more than 4,600 classic and contemporary composers. It covers all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century, and includes full, study, piano, and vocal scores.