Library Research Guides: MUS / REL 219: Christian Liturgy and the Sacred Arts: Home

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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Includes full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001, 29 vols.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992, 4 vols.), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002, 2 vols.), plus audio clips and links to authoritative music sites.
Oxford Music Online has updated its platform. Please see The New Oxford Music Online guide for more information about the changes.

Oxford Music Online Tutorial
A brief video showing the basic features and functions.

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.), continually updated, with links to museum-quality images.

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials This link opens in a new window
Index to articles, books, and essays on all aspects of religion, 1949 to present, with full text of more than 80 major religion and theology journals.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Citations and abstracts for significant writings on music: journal articles, conference proceedings, Festschrifts, books & dissertations, 1967 to present
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Classical and world music in streaming audio. Comprehensive, including most of the classical repertoire—over one million tracks from Naxos, Chandos, EMI, Nonesuch, and hundreds of other labels. Free mobile app available.

This resource allows a limited number of simultaneous users. Please log out via the log-out button at the top left of the screen when you are finished.

Naxos Music Library Tutorial
A brief video showing how to find recordings in Naxos.

Art Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on all aspects of art, 1984 to present (abstracts), 1995 to present (full text). The database covers fine, decorative and commercial art, folk art, photography, film, and architecture.
Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works, dating from B.C.E. to present.

Requires creation of an Artstor account to download images. This account also grants you off-campus access for 60 days. If your account is inactivated or you need to create an account, make sure to use a library link (such as this one) to get to Artstor so that you will be recognized as a Wellesley user.

SuperSearch is a great place to start for journal articles, books and almost everything else the library has, in one easy to use interface.

For searching with more focus and precision, try one of the databases recommended on this guide.