Music Research: Journals and Databases
Includes a wide range of online library resources for music research.
Music Journals List
NOTE: The links in this guide do not work; they are in the process of being updated. However, the library most likely does have all of these resources. Just search for them by title in the library catalog to place holds or access ebooks. We apologize for the inconvenience.
- Music Journals 2020 Rev.A printable, annotated list of journals related to music, music education, and music therapy, with Pacific access information. Direct links to these resources are also found below.
Music Journals Links
Links to library catalog to access the journal titles from the Music Journals List. The library provides access to a wide range of journals online and/or in print. For issues without full-text access, you can usually still find article information through the library databases by following the links below, and then request access through Interlibrary Loan. Please contact Santha Zaik (zaiks1@pacificu.edu), Library Music Specialist, for research assistance.
- Australian Journal of Music Therapy : the Journal of the Australian Music Therapy Association Inc. (Electronic)Includes research by music therapists or about music therapy practices, as well as relevant research papers from other related fields.
Access to 1990-present.
ISSN: 1036-9457 - British Journal of Music Therapy (Print)A peer-reviewed journal for music therapists and other professionals interested in all aspects of music therapy. Continues: Journal of British Music Therapy.
Print holdings: volumes 2014-2019.
ISSN: 1359-4575 - British Journal of Music Therapy (Electronic)A peer-reviewed journal for music therapists and other professionals interested in all aspects of music therapy. Continues: Journal of British Music Therapy.
Access to 1987-present.
ISSN: 2059-9773
- Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music EducationThe Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education provides a forum where contemporary research is made accessible to all with interest in music education. The Bulletin contains current research, and reviews of interest to the international music education profession.
Access to 1963-
- Canadian Journal of Music Therapy = Revue canadienne de musicothérapie (Electronic)A bilingual, peer-reviewed publication that aims to raise international standards of music therapy knowledge and practice.
Access to 2004-2016.
ISSN: 1199-1054 - Ethnomusicology (Electronic)Features scholarly articles representing theoretical perspectives and research in ethnomusicology and related fields, as well as book, sound recording, film, video, and multimedia reviews.
Access: 1997-2001
Indexing: 1952-present (ProQuest Central, JSTOR)
ISSN: 2156-7417 - General Music Today (Electronic)Contains articles on emerging trends, effective teaching ideas, & new material for teaching general music at all levels.
Access to 1999-present.
ISSN: 1931-3756 - The Instrumentalist (Print)The magazine for school band and orchestra directors.
Print holdings: 1951-present.
ISSN: 0020-4331 - International Journal of Music Education (Electronic)Peer-reviewed journal published by the International Society for Music Education (ISME). Focuses on the teaching and learning of music with a special interest toward an international constituency.
Access to 1999-present.
Indexed: 1983-present.
ISSN: 1744-795X - Journal of Band Research (Print)A scholarly publication devoted to band music, band history and band methodology.
Print: 1983-1993, 1998-present
Indexed: Google Scholar, openmusiclibrary.org (1964-2015)
ISSN: 0021-9207 - Journal of Music TheoryPublishes research with important and broad applications in the analysis of music and the history of music theory as well as theoretical or metatheoretical work that engages and stimulates ongoing discourse in the field.
Access to 2012-2018.
Indexed: 1999-present.
ISSN: 1941-7497 - Journal of Music TherapyCurrent music therapy research and theory, including book reviews and guest editorials.
Access to 1996-present.
ISSN: 2053-7395 - Journal of Research in Music EducationOriginal research related to music teaching and learning. Includes music pedagogy, history, and philosophy, and addresses vocal, instrumental, and general music at all levels.
Access to 1999-present.
Print: 1953-2012.
ISSN: 1945-0095 - Journal of Historical Research in Music EducationFocuses on the diverse international history of music education.
Access to 2003-2015.
Indexed: openmusiclibrary.org (1980-2015)
ISSN: 2328-2525 - Journal of Singing : The Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (Print)Current information regarding the teaching of singing as well as results of recent research in the field.
Print: 1995-present
ISSN: 1086-7732 - Journal of Singing : The Official Journal of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (Electronic)Current information regarding the teaching of singing as well as results of recent research in the field.
Access to 2007-present
ISSN: 1086-7732 - Journal of the American Musicological Society (Electronic)Scholarship from a broad array of musical inquiry: historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and organology, pedagogy, and more.
Access to 2000-present.
ISSN: 1547-3848 - Music Education ResearchCovers all aspects of music education.
Available from 1999.
Most recent 1 year(s) 6 month(s) not available. - Music Educators Journal (Print)Scholarly and practical articles on music teaching approaches and philosophies, instructional techniques, and current trends and issues in music education.
Print: 1949-2014.
ISSN: 0027-4321 - Music Educators Journal (Electronic)Scholarly and practical articles on music teaching approaches and philosophies, instructional techniques, and current trends and issues in music education.
Access to 1990-present
ISSN: 1945-0087 - Musical America (Electronic)Classical music magazine.
Issues for 1987-1992 called v. 107-112 continue the numbering of a publication with the same title, published 1898-1964, and include the years published within High Fidelity
Access to 1988-1992.
ISSN: 1042-3443 - Musical Quarterly (Electronic)Focuses on the merging areas in scholarship where much of the challenging new work in the study of music is being produced.
Access: 1915-1922, 2012-2017)
ISSN: 1741-8399 - Musical Record (Print)This journal ran from 1868-1919 under various titles.
Print: 1892, 1894, 1896.
Select issues also available digitally through HathiTrust.
ISSN: 0737-1519 - Nineteenth-Century Music Review (Electronic)Locates music within all aspects of culture in the long nineteenth century (c.1789-1914), covering the widest possible range of methods, topics and concepts.
Access to 2004-present.
ISSN: 2044-8414 - Notes (Electronic)A journal published by the Music Library Association that covers issues concerning music librarianship for the academic and professional audience.
Access to 1993-present.
Indexed: Gale (1965-present).
ISSN: 1534-150X - Opera News (Electronic)News and reviews of opera companies worldwide, productions, hi-fi equipment, performers, records, travel and information on telecasts and radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera.
Access to 1996-2017.
Indexed: EBSCO (1983-present)
ISSN: 1938-1506 - Opera Quarterly (Electronic)Fundamentally interdisciplinary, Opera Quarterly addresses both historical and contemporary developments on the stage and in the academy.
Access to 1997-1999, 2002-present.
ISSN: 1476-2870 - Perspectives of New Music (Print)A journal discussing contemporary music and its analysis for the academic audience.
Print: v.2-v.54 (1963-2016)
ISSN: 0031-6016 - Perspectives of New Music (Electronic)A journal discussing contemporary music and its analysis for the academic audience.
Access to 2003-2018.
Indexed: 1989-present.
ISSN: 2325-7180 - Rolling Stone (Print)Rock & roll, national affairs, feature stories, reviews, classified ads, and the music charts.
Print: Last 12 months.
ISSN: 0035-791X - Rolling Stone (Electronic)Rock & roll, national affairs, feature stories, reviews, classified ads, and the music charts.
Access to 1990-present.
Indexed: 1984-present.
ISSN: 0035-791X - Teaching Music (Electronic)A bimonthly professional magazine covering all levels of music education, focusing on practical articles in specialty categories, including General Music, Band, Orchestra, Chorus, Early Childhood, Technology, Advocacy, Research, and more.
Access to 1999-present.
ISSN: 1069-7446 - Update : Music Educators National Conference U.S. (Electronic)Brings research in music teaching and learning close to everyday practice to help teachers apply research in their music classrooms and rehearsal halls.
Access to 1998-present.
ISSN: 1945-0109
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