Music: Music History and (Ethno)musicology

• Eighteenth Century Music
• Seventeenth Century Music
• Fifteenth Century Music
• Medieval Music
• Musical Performance
• Western Music Theory

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO)

• Music - over 250 music-related bibliographies, including:
  • Music and Medievalism
  • Global Music History
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Gender and Sexuality in Music
  • Postcolonialism

Sometimes it is hard to narrow down results in Omni. Consider the following databases that provide direct access to scholarly articles in just music

• RILM abstracts of Music Literature
  • international coverage of music publications. 
• Music Periodicals Database
  • articles from popular music publications.

For more detailed searching, and/or for more obscure topics, try searching across the full text through these databases:

• JSTOR
  • full text collection of ejournals, searchable across all the full text; you can also limit to music journals
• Periodicals Archive Online
  • another full text collection of ejournals, searchable across all the full text; you can also limit to music journals

Think outside the box, you may find journal literature in other databases, e.g,

• ATLA Religion Database
  • Church music, etc.
• Historical Abstracts
  • musical issues related to historical and political events
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • includes extremely obscure citations​​​​​​