Music databases

AES (Audio Engineering Society) E-Library

  • Over 13,000 fully searchable PDF files documenting the progression of audio research from 1953 to the present day.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

British Library Sounds

  • Contains over 12,000 recordings from the British Library's Sound Archive of the spoken word, music, interviews and sound effects.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Choral Public Domain Library

  • Charity run database providing access to public domain choral scores, texts, translations and other related content.
  • Users are responsible for checking the copyright terms of the work as displayed on the site due to variance between UK and US legislation.
  • Included in the main library search.

Education & Bass

  • An online music production school giving students free access to online music education videos, over 1000 courses, tutorials and lectures for all electronic genres.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Grove Music Online

  • A dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition.
  • Sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

Independent Local Radio

  • Audio files from four archives of Independent Local Radio from 1973 to 1996.
  • NOT included in the main library search.

JSTOR

  • UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
  • A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.

Open Score

  • A crowd funded/sourced collection of public domain works and original works.
  • Users are responsible for checking the copyright terms of the work as displayed on the site due to variance between UK and US legislation.
  • Included in the main library search.

Petrucci Music Library (International Music Score Library Project)

  • A community wiki allowing the archiving and access of public domain music scores and performances.
  • Users are responsible for checking the copyright terms of the work as displayed on the site due to variance between UK and US legislation.
  • Included in the main library search.

Project Muse

  • Online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.
  • Included in the main library search.

Routledge Handbooks Online Music Collection

  • Routledge Music handbooks and companions revolve around current topics such as Music and Cognition, and evolving areas of study like music and visual culture, and popular music analysis.
  • Included in the main library search.

Taylor & Francis

  • Provides access to over 2,500 full-text journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.
  • Included in the main library search.