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Music Periodicals Database

The Music Periodicals Database – formerly International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP+IIMP Full Text) – supports music scholarship, theory, and practice with access to about 220 full-text titles and citations sourced from more than 600 international music periodicals.

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Publications in Music Periodicals Database

Music publications indexed and coverage in Music Periodicals Database.

What is Music Periodicals Database?

MUSIC PERIODICALS DATABASE is a citation index with some abstracts.

COVERAGE is from 1874 to the present.

FORMATS INDEXED are international musical periodicals.

SUBJECTS focus on classical and popular music.

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Tips for Search Music Periodicals Database

Search Strategy

Form/Symbols Used

Sample Search

Retrieves---

Boolean Operators

AND   OR   NOT

mozart AND requiem

 

records with both terms

 

 

 

opera OR musical

records with at least one of the terms

 

 

jazz NOT blues

records that contain “jazz” but exclude “blues”

Truncation retrieves 1 or more characters at the end of a search term

*

symphon*

symphony, symphonic, symphonisches, etc.

Wild Card retrieves 1 character at the end or inside a search term

?

despre?

despres, desprez

 

 

sch??nberg

schonberg, schönberg, schoenberg

Phrases

“   ”

“figured bass”

the EXACT phrase; good for song titles

Nesting/Parentheses

(   )

(nijinsky AND ballet) NOT stravinsky

items that exclude Stravinsky, but contain both nijinsky and ballet

Proximity

NEAR/#

palestrina NEAR/5 mass

results within 5 words of each other, any order

 

PRE/#

palestrina PRE/5

results within 5 words of each other, in order specified

Music Periodicals Database Basic Search Tutorial