Music
Queenslanders have access to a number of authoritative, subscription-only databases that are not available through Google or other free search engines.
Onsite access at your public library or State Library
Onsite access is easy - visit your local Queensland public library or the State Library of Queensland and connect using one of the onsite computers. You may also be able to access these databases using the library's wireless service.
Offsite access
To access these databases away from the library - from any computer connected to the internet (eg home or office) - you must be a Queensland resident and:
Click the 
button beside the database to begin searching. You will be asked to login using your e-services card or QPL account. Terms and conditions apply.
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African American Music Reference Offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 4,300 essays and images from 125 sources, over 34,497 pages. You can also access African American Music Reference through the Music Online interface. |
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American Song
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Classical Music Library
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Classical Music Reference Library Brings together more than 40,000 pages of essential reference materials, including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music. Comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century, with definitions of musical terms and extensive biographical information. In addition there are biographies, chronologies, primary source readings, critical texts, full text from other major reference works, biographical information, score and lyric excerpts, musical and notational terms, and photographs and images of people, instruments, and ensembles. |
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Classical Scores LibraryContains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both collections can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score. Classical Scores Library allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods.Coverage: variable Access: onsite@slq + offsite access for e-services members and Queensland public library (QPL) account holders Licence: 20 users |
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Contemporary World Music
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Dance in Video
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E-Music QuestOnline version of the Music-In-Print series, which seeks to index all music currently in print throughout the world. Provides publisher and price details. Searchable by composer, title or keyword. Search online volumes on Sacred Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, Piano, and Miscellaneous Music In Print. Coverage: updated regularly |
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. This is the online version of 10 print volumes first published in 1997. It comprising more than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, with hundreds of audio examples. This is the most complete body of work focused on world music. |
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Grove Music Online: Now Oxford Music OnlineSee Oxford Music Online. |
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Jazz Music Library
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JSTOR
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MasterFile
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Music Index OnlineIndexes an extensive range of international music journals. A broad range of subjects is covered, including past and present personalities, the history of music, forms and types of music, computer produced music and musical instruments from the earliest times to modern electronic instruments. Coverage: updated quarterly |
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Music Online The search platform through which you can cross-search the Alexander Street Press range of music databases, including Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and African American Music Reference. It also searches various audio and video libraries: Classical Music Library, American Song, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, Dance in Video, Opera in Video. |
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Naxos Music Library
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Opera in Video
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Oxford History of Western Music Covers the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. The database includes 69 chapters, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples from the updated paperback edition. v.1. Music from the earliest notations to the sixteenth century -- v.2. Music in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- v.3. Music in the nineteenth century -- v.4. Music in the early twentieth century -- v.5. Music in the late twentieth century. |
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Oxford Music Online
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
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Last updated: 28th November 2011
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