Music Subject Guide: Find Articles

The CMPI database includes over 37,000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines are represented here, almost 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed.

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One of the premier journals in musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society publishes scholarship from a broad array of musical inquiry: from historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and organology, to pedagogy, performance practice, aesthetics and hermeneutics, ethnomusicology, gender and sexuality, popular music, and cultural studies. Recognized for the breadth of its intellectual scope and its penetration in the field, JAMS informs musicological scholarship with articles, book reviews, and other communications.

Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, formerly Canadian University Music Review, a bilingual journal, was founded in 1980 by the Canadian University Music Society. An open-access and digitally published journal, it is the principal Canadian outlet for refereed scholarly research. The global aim of the journal is to publish research by scholars from around the world. Its particular mandate is to represent Canadian research to other Canadians, and thus to support awareness and interaction among Canadians interested in music research, as well as to represent Canadian research and Canadian music to the world.

19th-Century Music publishes articles on all aspects of music having to do with the "long" nineteenth century. The period of coverage has no definite boundaries; it can extend well backward into the eighteenth century and well forward into the twentieth. The journal is open to studies of any musical or cultural development that affected nineteenth-century music and any such developments that nineteenth-century music subsequently affected.

On-line peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal of research on conceptions of music and the notion of meaning through the study of musical phenomena.

A refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century including historical and archival studies, performance practice, music theory, aesthetics, dance, and theatre as well as reviews and listings of recently published materials.

"Performance Practice Review (PPR) is a blind, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of Western musical performance practices. It is not confined to any historical period." (website)

News magazine from the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). Paper issues in Music Library: ML 1 .W94. Last print issue is v. 21, no. 4 (Winter 2015). Also available online through CBCA database (ProQuest).

"...an interdisciplinary forum for the study of sacred music in all of its ritual, artistic, and cultural contexts. This peer-reviewed, open access, semiannual journal publishes substantial scholarship on religious music of all traditions across a range of methodologies, situating it within the worlds of beliefs and practices." (Website: About This Journal.)