Kent Library

A database that provides full text/images of American periodicals from the late 17th through early 20th century covering a broad spectrum of topics.

The Arts Resource Center provides access to special collections in art, music, theatre, and dance. Materials may be obtained at SEMO’s River Campus or requested for pick up at Kent Library.

This database features hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library, provides online access to over 225,000 pages of scores. In addition to new works from contemporary composers, Volume II includes a range of important composers not represented in the first volume and alternative editions of many of music’s most studied composi...

Provides previously unpublished historic audio recordings and their supporting field materials, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context. The collection brings together 2,000 hours of audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s throug...

Public domain musical scores, sheet music and audio recordings

JSTOR is a multidisciplinary archival database with the full-text and full page image scholarly journals from the first issue up until the last 2-7 years. A recent expansion of content brings the total number of journals to 1306.

The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present.

Offers streaming audio of musical works with access to more than 98,490 CDs with more than 1,429,800 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. The library offers the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues plus the complete catalogues or selected titles from over 650 record labels, along with cl...

Streaming audio of nearly 19,000 jazz CDs, with over 200,000 individual tracks.

This sheet music library offers 100,000 titles/works, including music from the catalogs of BMG, Alfred, EMI, Mel Bay among others. In contrast to the Classical Scores library, most of the works here are geared toward solo and ensemble performance sheet music, as opposed to study scores.

Oxford Music Online offers users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location, providing more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works, as well as more extensive articles wi...

Project MUSE offers nearly 200 journal titles from some 30 scholarly publishers, covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

Provides nearly 3,000 albums and more than 40,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and humanmade sounds, as well as the published recordings owned by the nonprofit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label together with the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records...