Research Guides: Music Therapy: Find Background Info

Bibliographies from the American Music Therapy Association

Music Therapy with Specific Populations: Fact Sheets, Resources & Bibliographies
Bibliographies list available resources based on a particular aspect of music therapy research, and are a good place to start your research. The American Music Therapy Association has a series of bibliographies covering music therapy research in areas such as autism, rehabilitation, mental health and special education.

Tests

Find Tests and Measurements
This guide is designed to offer a set of resources to assist in identifying and finding tests, measurements, assessments, rating scales on particular subjects as well as resources for further information on testing in general.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) [via EBSCOhost] This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 5
HaPI is a bibliographic database produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, and is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health and psychosocial sciences. It provides information about behavioral measurement instruments, including those from Industrial Organizational Behavior and Education.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 4
Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides a guide to contemporary testing instruments and contains information for evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. User guides are available on the publisher site.

Search Music Online!

Music & Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Music & Performing Arts (formerly Music Online) combines all of Temple's Alexander Street Press music resources: streaming audio, video, scores, and reference material. This includes the following resources: African American Music, African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, Jazz Music Library, Opera in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound.
Classical Scores Library This link opens in a new window
Note: Access to Volume V is guaranteed through May 2027
Classical Scores Library contains classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material. Temple has access to Volumes I, II, III, IV, and V. This collection covers classical musical genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 10
Naxos Music Library has audio tracks from the complete Naxos Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues. Genres include Classical, Jazz, World, Folk, and Chinese. Biographical information on composers and artists, and album liner notes are also included.
Naxos Music Library Jazz This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 5
Naxos Music Library Jazz provides music from labels such as Naxos Jazz as well as the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz.

Reference Tools - find background info on any topic

Take a look at these databases of encyclopedias, dictionaries, companions, and guides to find general overviews, quick facts, dates, and events, and sources for further study.

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: unlimited
Credo Reference provides access to a large number of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and other reference books. Subjects covered include art, biography, history, literature, music, religion, and science and technology.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: unlimited
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library [GVRL]) is a database of encyclopedias and reference sources for multidisciplinary research. Because each library creates its own eBook collection, the content you see may vary if the database is accessed from different libraries.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
Oxford English Dictionary (OED), published by the Oxford University Press, is a descriptive dictionary of the English language. Included is the complete text of the 2nd. ed. of the Oxford English dictionary with quarterly updates, including revisions not available in any other form.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Concurrent user limit: 12 users on the platform
Oxford Reference Online includes subject and language reference sources from Oxford University Press, including many titles from the Oxford Companions Series. Browse or search single titles, specific subject areas, or the entire collection.