Music
Queenslanders have access to a number of authoritative, subscription-only databases that are not available through Google or other free search engines.
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hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores.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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Encyclopedia of Popular Music
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Gale Virtual Reference Library Offers encyclopaedias and reference sources for research on many topics. You can access them from home twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, at the State Library or your local public library. We have selected 75 titles from all subject areas, such as Ancient civilizations reference library, Novels for students and Customs of Australia. Use them for quick look ups or doing homework assignments. |
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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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Jazz Music Library
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JSTOR
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MasterFILE Premier Provides full text for more than 2,050 journals with information covering virtually every subject area of general interest. Includes hundreds of full text reference books, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. |
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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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Opera in Video
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Oxford History of Western Music
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Oxford Music Online
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Oxford Reference Online Premium Collection A comprehensive resource that contains over 175 dictionaries and reference titles covering the complete subject spectrum: from general reference and language to science and medicine, and from humanities and social sciences to business and professional. |
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Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
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Last updated: 28th November 2011
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