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Song Indexes

BMI Songview
a combined view of ASCAP and BMI musical works -- search by title, performer, writer/composer, publisher, BMI Work ID or ISWC
ASCAP Repertory Search
a searchable database that contains information on musical works in the ASCAP Repertory, plus certain works controlled by Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)

Popular Music (1980-2002)
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- ML 120.U5 S5
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Popular Music, 1920-1979: A Revised Cumulation
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- ML 120.U5 S5 1985
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Popular Music, 1900-1919 : an annotated guide to American popular songs, including introductory essay, lyricists and composers index, important performances index, chronological index, and list of publishers
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- ML 120.U5 S5 1988
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Articles

Music Index (EBSCOhost) (1976+) This link opens in a new window
Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to the present. Formerly The Music Index Online provided by Harmonie Park Press, this database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. It covers more than 880 indexed and abstracted journals, more than 375 of which are peer-reviewed.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides active full text for more than 3,100 journals, including active full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals.
Humanities Source (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Humanities Source is designed to meet the needs of students, researchers and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
See also the print indexes, Reference Collection AI 3 .R493 (1907-2004) - International Index to Periodicals / Social Sciences & Humanities Index / Humanities Index -- and the online version: Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (1907-1984)
formerly Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson) (1983+)

Biographical Sources

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive resource on all aspects of music, including text from several Grove titles
- Grove Music Online
- Oxford Dictionary of Music
- Oxford Companion to Music
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music
- Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
- New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
- New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
- New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Biography (Gale In Context) This link opens in a new window
combines Gale biographies with related full-text articles from magazines and newspapers, thousands images, and links to vetted websites.
People included are from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas. Search by name, birth and death years and places, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
- List of Sources included, such as the Dictionary of American Biography is available on the Gale Support - Title Lists for the database "Gale in Context: Biography"
Biography and Genealogy Master Index (Gale) This link opens in a new window
UCF ARC Main General Collection -- CT 213 .B53
Identifies 12.7 million biographical sketches in more than 3,400 current and retrospective reference books, covering contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
"indexes current, readily available reference sources, as well as the most important retrospective works that cover individuals, both living and deceased, from every field of activity and from all areas of the world.... BGMI indexes only reference works containing multiple biographies; it does not index periodical articles or books of biography about a single individual. Sources...are of several types:
- Biographical dictionaries and who's whos, which supply information on a number of individuals.
- Subject encyclopedias, which include some biographical entries.
- Volumes of literary criticism, which may contain only a limited amount of biographical information but give critical surveys of a writer's works.
- Indexes, which refer the user to a body of information found elsewhere."