CSU Library Music Therapy Subject Guide

Need Help? There are several options for research assistance, including the Ask a Librarian email service and the CSU Chat instant message service

What is Discus?

What is PASCAL?

Music Therapy Subject Guide

Databases and Journal Indexes
Print Sources
Internet Resources
Journals and Magazines

Databases and Journal Indexes

The following databases are only available to faculty, staff, and students of Charleston Southern University:

Academic OneFile (InfoTrac) DISCUS icon

A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOHost) PASCAL icon

A general, multi-disciplinary database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals

EBSCO eBook Collection
A collection of over 21,000 electronic books available in full text online. These titles may be searched in the library's catalog or directly in the EBSCO database. Formerly known as NetLibrary, titles in this collection cover all subject areas.

Expanded Academic (InfoTrac) DISCUS icon

A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals.

General OneFile (InfoTrac) DISCUS icon

A general database that contains full text and indexed articles from magazines, newspapers, books and journals in most disciplines ranging from architecture to biology and history to mathematics.

Grove Music Online
This compendium of music scholarship offers the full texts of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It includes 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world on all aspects of music. Grove Music Online is now part of Oxford Music Online, which also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music.

Naxos Music Library Always remember to click the red LOGOUT button at the top of the NML screen when you are finished using Naxos Music Library to ensure that you clear your connection. Closing the browser or going to another site without clicking the log-out button will keep your user space occupied and can sometimes prevent you or other users from logging in since this subscription allows only 5 users to be logged in at one time. NML is an online classical music library offering streaming access to more than 17,000 CDs with more than 250,000 tracks. On average, 500 new CDs are added to the library every month. Additionally, it provides playing times of individual works or movements, detailed music notes, and opera libretti. NML can be searched by composer, work and label, by keyword search, and by a sophisticated advanced search.

Naxos Music Library Jazz Always remember to click the red LOGOUT button at the top of the NML screen when you are finished using Naxos Music Library to ensure that you clear your connection. Closing the browser or going to another site without clicking the log-out button will keep your user space occupied and can sometimes prevent you or other users from logging in since this subscription allows only 5 users to be logged in at one time. NML-Jazz is an online collection of Jazz music offering streaming access to 22,600 tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums from 500 jazz artists, with new jazz releases continually added. NML-Jazz can be searched by featured artist(s), disc/song title and catalogue number.

Oxford Companion to Music
This fulltext resource includes articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles. Including jazz, popular music, and dance, the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Oxford Companion to Music is now part of Oxford Music Online, which also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Grove Music Online.

Oxford Dictionary of Music
This fulltext resource includes entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, individual works including operas and ballets, musical styles, and much more. Oxford Dictionary of Music is now part of Oxford Music Online, which also includes the Oxford Companion to Music and Grove Music Online.

Oxford Music Online
This fulltext resource offers users the ability to access and cross-search the resources of Oxford's music reference in one location. It includes Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Oxford Reference Online Premium
Combines language and subject reference works together to form a large reference library. It contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works. The section for "Performing Arts" is found under Subjects & Books.

Return to Top

Print Sources

Applications of Music in Medicine (Ref. ML 3920 .A7 1991)

Art and Science of Music Therapy: A Handbook (ML 3920 .A77 1995)

Dynamics of Music Psychotherapy (ML 3920 .D95 1998)

Effectiveness of Music Therapy Procedures: Documentation of Research and Clinical Practice (ML 3920 .E35 2000)

Handbook of Music Psychology (Ref. ML 3830 .H160 1996)

Historical Research in Music Therapy: A Bibliography (Ref. ML 128 .M77 H44 2002)

Music as Medicine: The History of Music Therapy Since Antiquity (ML 3920 .M8964 2000)

Music Therapy & Medicine: Research Compendium (ML 3920 .M8974 1999)

Music Therapy: International Perspectives (Ref. ML3920 .M9 1993)

Return to Top