Music

Multidisciplinary database covering a large range of material in the social sciences and humanities. It includes over 21,000 journals and other publications. Approximately 40% of the journals are full text.

Indexes the contents pages of over 12,000 journals. Subjects covered include business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science and social sciences. Coverage is from 1990 to date.

A digital library of approximately 700,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

A fully searchable classical music resource - a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. Note: It is not possible to download or burn music to CD. Available on Campus only.

The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, with more than 2.3 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses included, covering graduate research from 1861 to the present.

Exam Papers Electronic Retrieval Tool - two databases of examination papers from 1998 onwards for both St. Patrick's College and NUI Maynooth.

Grove Music Online has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a glorious compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations. Including more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world, Grove Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.

Journal Storage Database - full text archival database of covering 900 scholarly journals in the areas of arts & humanities, social sciences and science.

A resource, giving you online access to the entire Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of recordings. It includes Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Naxos streams at near-CD quality (64KB). Note: It is not possible to download or burn to CD any music on Naxos Music Library. Naxos is only available on campus.

The Oxford Companion to Music provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions.

This offers the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations.
Now includes The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and the The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006 )

Project MUSE provides full-text access to over 300 high quality scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.

A fully searchable register of Irish postgraduate theses and dissertations in musicology at PhD, MLitt and MA levels. The Register includes theses which have been submitted or are currently in progress at universities and third-level colleges in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; are by members of the Society for Musicology in Ireland; or which have been submitted or are in progress at universities elsewhere but are directly related to music in Ireland. A number of undergraduate dissertations of original research merit are also included.