Music 308: Music in Vienna 1875-1925: Articles/Databases
About articles
Articles are collected into journals, magazines, newspapers, and other types of "periodicals" that are produced on a regular basis, or "periodically." Most databases let you select or limit to scholarly or academic articles or publications, as well as dissertations, conference reports, etc.
- Find Articles in RILM music databasePowerPoint Tutorial: Click the speaker icon in the upper right of each slide for audio.
Music-specific databases
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new windowClick: Choose Databases and include:
Academic Search Ultimate, Biography Index, Historical Abstracts, & Jewish Studies Source.
Look for:
Vienn* OR wien (change drop-down to Subject)
AND fin-de-siècle
and/or more specific keywords.
Limit Language to English. - Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowLook for:
Vienn* OR wien
AND fin-de-siècle
Click: Exclude Reviews
Select Language: English
General Databases
- HathiTrust This link opens in a new windowUse this database to find specific historical books or music
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR provides the searchable full text of the backfiles of many of the core research and academic society published journals in almost all subject areas, but its emphasis is in the humanities and social sciences. The majority of JSTOR's content is academic and peer-reviewed.
Artstor content will be migrated to JSTOR prior to the site's retirement on August 1st, 2023.
Search tips for finding articles
- use "quotation marks" around phrases
- truncate - shorten a word to its trunk or root to get alternate endings - with an asterisk * (shift 8), e.g., truncat* finds truncate, truncated, truncation
- apply Boolean connector AND to combine unlike ideas, e.g., dance AND promotion
- apply Boolean connector OR to connect synonyms, e.g., advertisements OR campaigns
Put it all together:
- "hip hop dance" in one box
- AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns) in the next box
- use parentheses in single-box searching - when you don't have another set of boxes, e.g.,:
- "hip hop dance" AND (promot* OR advertis* OR campaigns)
Use the left or right menus to narrow your results, e.g., by language, date, subject, etc.
Databases have a citation (information about an article such as the title, author, name of the journal or magazine, volume and issue (which correspond to the date), date, and pages) and sometimes they will also contain an abstract, or summary, of the article.
Databases also often cite multiple types of resources - books, essays or chapters, government documents, etc.
Some databases will also have the complete item (called the full text): you should see a link to an HTML or PDF document. Or click on - this will check the other library databases for the full text of the article.
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