Primary Music E-Journals

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [see all resources in this collection]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [see all resources in this collection]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
Supplemental URLs
    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)
    JSTOR on Mobile devices

Music Periodicals Database
Also Known as: International Index to Music Periodicals, Full Text Edition (IIMP), Music Database,
IIMP Full Text is a music information resource with indexing, abstracts and selected full text from many sources, covering the scholarly to the popular. Offering the widest span of scholarship availab...   [see all resources in this collection]
Holdings: Dates vary.

Important Music E-Journals

19th-Century Music
Also Known as: Nineteenth Century Music, 19th Century Music
- from JSTOR
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Holdings: 1977-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

21st century music
21st Century Music publishes articles on analysis, composition, criticism, interdisciplinary studies, musicology, and performance practice and reviews of books, concerts, music, recordings, and vid...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Absolute Sound
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Access to the Music Zone (AMZ)
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Acta Musicologica
- from JSTOR
continues Mitteilungen der Internationalen Gesellschaft fur Musikwissenschaft / Bulletin de la Sociiti internationale de musicologie (1928-1930)...   [more]
Holdings: 1931-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

African Music
- from JSTOR
Continues The African Music Society Newsletter...   [more]
Holdings: 1954-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

African Music Society Newsletter
- from JSTOR
Continues Newsletter. African Music Society; Continued by African Music...   [more]
Holdings: 1952-1953

Africultures
- from CAIRN Bouquet General
[more]
Holdings: 2003-2014

Amazing Sounds
[more]
Unrestricted Access

American choral review
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

American Music
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1983-
Moving Wall: 2.00 year moving wall

American music teacher
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

American record guide
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

American recorder
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

American string teacher
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Analytical Approaches to World Music
Nos. 1-2, 2011 are available....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Annual review of jazz studies
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Anuario
- from JSTOR
1965-1969; continued by Anuario Interamericano de Investigacion Musical (1970-1975)...   [more]
Holdings: 1965-1969

Anuario Interamericano de Investigacion Musical
- from JSTOR
1970-1975; continues Anuario (1965-1969); continued by Latin American Music Review / Revista de Musica Latinoamericana ...   [more]
Holdings: 1970-1975

Anuario musical
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Arane: Archaeomusicological Review of the Ancient Near East
1st issue (2009) only available. In English....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft
- from JSTOR
continues Sammelbande der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft (1899-1914) ...   [more]
Holdings: 1918-
Moving Wall: 4.00 year moving wall

Ars lyrica
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

ARSC journal
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Arts and Letters Daily
[more]
Unrestricted Access

ASCAP Playback magazine
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Asian Music
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1968-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Australian Humanities Review
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Bass player
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Black Music Research Journal
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1980-

Black Perspective in Music
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1973-1990

Book World (Washington Post)
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Boston Review
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Unrestricted Access

Bouwsteenen
- from JSTOR
continued by Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis....   [more]
Holdings: 1869-1881

British Journal of Ethnomusicology
- from JSTOR
Continued by Ethnomusicology Forum...   [more]
Holdings: 1992-2003

Bulletin de la Societe Francaise de Musicologie
- from JSTOR
continued by Revue de Musicologie ...   [more]
Holdings: 1917-1921

Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education
Also Known as: The Bulletin of Historical Research in Music Education
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1980-1999

Bulletin of the American Musicological Society
- from JSTOR
continued by Journal of the American Musicological Society ...   [more]
Holdings: 1936-1948

Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1963-

Bulletin of the International Council for Traditional Music
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Cambridge Opera Journal
- from Cambridge Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Cambridge Opera Journal
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1997-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Cambro-Briton
- from JSTOR
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Holdings: 1819-1822

Canadian music educator
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Canadian musician
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

CHINOPERL
Also Known as: Journal of Chinese Oral and Performing Literature
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Choral journal
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Chronicle of Higher Education
Also Known as: Academe this Week
[more]
Holdings: 1989-

College Music Symposium
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1961-
Moving Wall: 2.00 year moving wall

Computer Music Journal
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Computers in Entertainment (CIE)
- from ACM Digital Library
[more]
Holdings: 2003-

Contributions to music education
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Critical Musicology
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Critical Quarterly
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
1998-2002...   [more]
Holdings: 1997-2002

Critical Quarterly
- from Wiley Online Library
[more]
Holdings: 1997-
Supplemental URLs
    previous provider - OCLC ECO - 1998-2002

Critical Studies in Improvisation
Critical Studies in Improvisation/Etudes critiques en improvisation is an open-access, peer-reviewed, electronic, academic journal on improvisation, community, and social practice housed at t...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Cultural Studies
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 1997-
Supplemental URLs
    Previous Provider OCLC ECO

Current musicology
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Discourses in Music
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Early music America.
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Early Music History
- from Cambridge Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Early Music History
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1981-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

ECHO: A music-centered journal
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Electronic Book Review
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Electronic musician
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Esoterica
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Ethnomusicology
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1953-
Moving Wall: 4.00 year moving wall

Ethnomusicology Forum
Also Known as: British Journal of Ethnomusicology
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Ethnomusicology Forum
- from JSTOR
Continues British Journal of Ethnomusicology...   [more]
Holdings: 2004-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Ethnomusicology Online
[more]
Unrestricted Access

European Music Journal
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Fanfare
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Film Music Magazine
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Film score monthly
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Flamenco World
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Galpin Society Journal
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1948-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Gamut: Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic
Gamut is the peer-reviewed online journal of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic. Like Music Theory Online, the online journal for the Society for Music Theory, Gamut is intended to be a jou...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

General Music Today
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1991-

Goldmine
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Guitar and Lute Issues
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Guitar player
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

H-Net Review Project
Book reviews in history....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Horn call
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 28, no. 2 (February 1998)-

IAJRC journal
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 35, no. 4 (fall 2002)-

Integral
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1987-
Moving Wall: 2.00 year moving wall

International journal of music education
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: No. 27 (May 1996)-

International Journal of Music Education
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1983-

International musician
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 101, no. 1 (January 2003)-

International Review of Music Aesthetics and Sociology
- from JSTOR
continued by International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music ...   [more]
Holdings: 1970-
Moving Wall: 7.00 year moving wall

International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
- from JSTOR
continues International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (1970)...   [more]
Holdings: 1971-

Jahrbuch fur Volksliedforschung
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1928-1999

Jazz education journal
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 30, no. 4 (January 1998)-

Jazziz
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 19, no. 1 (January 2002)-

Jelly Online
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Journal of Cultural Economics
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1977-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Journal of Experimental Music Studies
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Journal of Historical Research in Music Education
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1999-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Journal of Music Teacher Education
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1991-

Journal of Music Theory
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1957-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Journal of Music Theory
- from Duke University Press Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1999-

Journal of music therapy
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 40, no. 1 (spring 2003)-

Journal of Music Therapy
- from Oxford University Press Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1996-

Journal of Musical Arts in Africa
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 2004-

Journal of Musicology
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1982-

Journal of New Music Research
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 1997-2009
Supplemental URLs
    Previous Provider OCLC ECO

Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1946-1947

Journal of research in music education
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 47, no. 1 (spring 1999)-

Journal of Research in Music Education
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1953-

Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music
[more]
Holdings: 1995-
Unrestricted Access

Journal of singing : the official journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 52, no. 1 (September/October 1995)-

Journal of Synagogue Music
- from publisher website
[more]
Holdings: 2010-
Unrestricted Access

Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 22 (1996)-

Journal of the American Musicological Society
Also Known as: JAMS
- from JSTOR
continues Bulletin of the American Musicological Society (1936-1948)...   [more]
Holdings: 1948-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Journal of the International Folk Music Council
- from JSTOR
continued by Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council (1969-1980)...   [more]
Holdings: 1949-1968

Journal of the Royal Musical Association
- from JSTOR
continues Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association (1944-1985) ...   [more]
Holdings: 1986-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Journal of the Society for Musicology in Ireland
"JSMI is a peer-reviewed journal established in 2005, published exclusively online. Its full-text articles and other content are free to access by all persons who register as users."...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Keyboard
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: 2002-

Kurt Weill Newsletter
Published twice a year, the Kurt Weill Newsletter features articles and reviews (books, performances, recordings) that center on Kurt Weill but take a broader look at issues of twentieth-century music...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Latin American Music Review
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Latin American Music Review / Revista de Musica Latinoamericana
- from JSTOR
continues Anuario Interamericano de Investigacion Musical (1970-1975)...   [more]
Holdings: 1980-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Leonardo
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Leonardo Music Journal
- from Project Muse
The companion annual journal to Leonardo...   [more]
Holdings: 2000-

Leonardo music journal
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1991-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

London Review of Books
[more]

Maynooth Review / Revieu Mha Nuad
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1975-1989

Medieval Review, formerly the Bryn Mawr Medieval Review
[more]
Holdings: 1993-
Unrestricted Access

Mitteilungen der Internationalen Gesellschaft fur Musikwissenschaft / Bulletin de la Societe internationale de musicologie
- from JSTOR
continued by Acta Musicologica ...   [more]
Holdings: 1928-1930

Modern drummer
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Modern drummer
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Music & Letters
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1920-2001

Music Analysis
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
1999-2002...   [more]
Holdings: 1999-2002

Music Analysis
- from Wiley Online Library
[more]
Holdings: 1999-
Supplemental URLs
    previous provider - OCLC ECO - 1999-2002

Music Analysis
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1982-1999

Music and Letters
- from Oxford University Press Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1996-

Music and the Moving Image
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2015-

Music Business Journal
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Music Education Research
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 2005-2007

Music educators journal
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Music Educators Journal
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1914-

Music Perception
- from University of California Press
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Music Perception
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 2007-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Music Sound and the Moving Image
Also Known as: Music Sound and the Moving Image
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2007-

Music Theory Online
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Music Theory Spectrum
- from Oxford University Press Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1996-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Music therapy perspectives
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Music Therapy Perspectives
- from Oxford University Press Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1996-

Musica Disciplina
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1948-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Musicae Scientiae
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Musical opinion
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Musical opinion supplement
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Musical Quarterly
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1915-1999

Musical Times
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1903-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Musicus
- from Sabinet African Journals
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Musurgia
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1994-
Moving Wall: 10.00 year moving wall

Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa
Also Known as: Muziki
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 2004-

New York Review of Books
Also Known as: nyrb
- from publisher website
"Access to some of the contents of the Review is limited due to copyright restrictions."...   [more]
Holdings: 1963-
Supplemental URLs
    NYRB Archive

NewMusicBox
Web magazine of the American Music Center...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Newsletter. African Music Society
- from JSTOR
Continued by The African Music Society Newsletter...   [more]
Holdings: 1948-1951

Nineteenth-Century Music
Also Known as: 19th Century Music , 19th-Century Music , Nineteenth Century Music
- from University of California Press
[more]
Holdings: 1977-

Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Also Known as: Nineteenth Century Music Review , 19th Century Music Review
- from Cambridge Journals
[more]
Holdings: 2004-

Notes
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1934-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Opera Canada
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Opera news
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Opera Quarterly
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2002-

Opera Quarterly
- from Oxford University Press Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1996-

Opera quarterly
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Operanet
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Organised Sound
- from Cambridge Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1996-

PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 1996-

Performing arts & entertainment in Canada
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Performing Arts and Entertainment in Canada
- from Literature Online Full-Text Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1995-2002

Perspectives of New Music
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1962-

Philosophy of Music Education Newsletter
- from JSTOR
Continued by Philosophy of Music Education Review...   [more]
Holdings: 1988-1992

Philosophy of Music Education Review
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Philosophy of Music Education Review
- from JSTOR
Continues Philosophy of Music Education Newsletter...   [more]
Holdings: 1993-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Piano today
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]

Plainsong and Medieval Music
- from Cambridge Journals
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Polish Music Journal
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Popular Music
- from Cambridge Journals
[more]
Holdings: 2000-2003

Popular Music
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1981-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Postmodern Culture
- from Project Muse
Available in electronic format only. "Interdisciplinary thought on contemporary culture."...   [more]
Holdings: 1990-

Proceedings of the Musical Association
- from JSTOR
continued by Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association ...   [more]
Holdings: 1874-1944

Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association
- from JSTOR
continues Proceedings of the Musical Association (1874-1944); continued by Journal of the Royal Musical Association ...   [more]
Holdings: 1944-1985

Record News
Also Known as: The Record News
- from publisher website
[more]
Holdings: 1991-
Unrestricted Access

Reference Reviews Europe
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Research Studies in Music Education
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1993-

Revue de Musicologie
- from JSTOR
continues Bulletin de la Sociiti frangaise de musicologie (1917-1921)...   [more]
Holdings: 1922-
Moving Wall: 7.00 year moving wall

Rock & rap confidential
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: No. 129 (December 1995)-

Rock Music Studies
- from Taylor & Francis Online
[more]
Holdings: 2014-

Rolling Stone
[more]
Holdings: No. 678 (March 1994)-
Unrestricted Access

Rolling stone
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: No. 678 (March 1994)-
Supplemental URLs
    
    
    
    
    

Romana Repertoria
Online publications of the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

RootsWorld
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Sacred music
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 122, no. 3 (fall 1995)-

Salon
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Sammelbande der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft
- from JSTOR
continued by Archiv fur Musikwissenschaft ...   [more]
Holdings: 1899-1914

SAMUS : South African journal of musicology
- from Sabinet African Journals
[more]
Holdings: 2000-

Sing out!
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 40. no. 3 (November 1995-January 1996)-

Sound & vision
- from Music Periodicals Database
[more]
Holdings: Vol. 63, no. 1 (January 1998)- -

Stanford Electronic Humanities Review
[more]
Unrestricted Access

Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1961-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Tempo
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1939-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

The Journal of Film Music
- from publisher website
[more]
Holdings: 2002-

Theory & Event
- from Project Muse
[more]
Holdings: 1997-

Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis
- from JSTOR
continued by Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis ...   [more]
Holdings: 1882-1959

Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
- from JSTOR
continues Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis (1960-1994)...   [more]
Holdings: 1995-
Moving Wall: 5.00 year moving wall

Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
- from JSTOR
continues Tijdschrift der Vereeniging voor Noord-Nederlands Muziekgeschiedenis (1882-1959); continued by Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis ...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-1994

Transcultural Music Review
[more]
Unrestricted Access

UPDATE: Applications of Research in Music Education
- from Sage Publications
[more]
Holdings: 1989-

Yearbook for Traditional Music
- from JSTOR
continues Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council (1969-1980) ...   [more]
Holdings: 1981-
Moving Wall: 4.00 year moving wall

Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council
- from JSTOR
continues Journal of the International Folk Music Council (1949-1968); continued by Yearbook for Traditional Music ...   [more]
Holdings: 1969-1980

Related Music E-Journals

Critical Inquiry
- from University of Chicago Press
[more]
Holdings: 2002-

Critical Inquiry
- from JSTOR
[more]
Holdings: 1974-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [see all resources in this collection]

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- from JSTOR
The American Society for Aesthetics ...   [more]
Holdings: 1941-
Moving Wall: 3.00 year moving wall

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- from Wiley Online Library
[more]
Holdings: 2001-

Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive
Also Known as: tls, Times Literary Supplement, Times (London) Literary Supplement, TLS Historical Archive
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly book review journal of international stature that has been published in London since 1902. Though it focuses on current British publications, its coverage is ...   [more]
Holdings: 1902-2019