Research Guides: 18th-19th c. Performance Practice: primary sources: Music periodicals

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Periodicals / magazines

These are more helpful for “who - what - why - when and where” than “how”, but they aren’t devoid of performance practice information either. For CWRU-available historical journals in one place, see the Research Guide linked below.

Historical Music Periodicals at CWRU

Newspapers

Newspapers are good sources for reviews. See options below:

KSL A-Z Databases: Newspaper Resources
Listing several newspapers and news aggregator resources, including historical archival collections of the New York Times, The Economist, and others.
Intro to searching with Nexis UNI
These and other tutorials are available from the LexisNexis YouTube channel.

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
Features more than 15,000 news, business, and legal sources - including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Registration is not required for campus and VPN access, but to take full advantage of personalized features, you must create a profile.

Training resources:
New York Times Historical
This historical newspaper (1851 - 2016) provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
NewsBank - All News and Newspaper Resources
Access to subscribed collections and historical archives.