While Music Periodicals Database does not have a thesaurus, the Broad Subject Headings and Narrow Subject Headings can be used to enhance your search by topic.
Broad Subject Headings broadly describe what an article is about (e.g., Country and Western Music) while Narrow Subject Headings focus in more precisely on the content of the article (e.g., Alternative country). The broad and narrow subject lists are created by ProQuest’s indexing team and are revised occasionally. The broad subject list is revised as new broad subject areas are investigated by researchers, while the narrow subject list grows more readily. Each article in Music Periodicals Database receives both broad and narrow subjects.
Music Periodicals Database offers seven Look ups or browsable indexes, so you can easily find spelling or format variations of, for example, an author's name or a journal title. You can find the Look up links in the advanced search page and they are available for the following searchable fields:
For a description of these fields, please see the searchable fields table to the right.
Note: Look ups are also available from the Command Line search (through the Look up terms link).
To use and locate a Look up or browsable index, select the field from the advanced search pull-down menu. If a Look up is available, under the search row you will see a link to the Look up. Other Look ups and browsable indexes will be listed in the Limit To section of the advanced search page.
Select the Look up link and then you will see a browsable and alphabetical index for that field. There are some indexes that will not display an alphabetical list before searching for the term, rather you will have to enter a term first, and then the alphabetical list of matches will display.
Once you locate the index term that you would like to add to your search, mark the item, and then click the Add to search button. The index term will now appear in the advanced search form along with the appropriate pull-down menu selection.
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Field Name |
Label |
Search Examples & Explanation |
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Abstract |
AB |
AB(swing jazz) Members from our editorial team write an abstract from scratch, drawing on the article’s text and concepts. Our team’s goal is to make the article’s point as clearly and succinctly as possible. |
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Accession Number |
AN |
AN(1191505) Search the unique database ID for articles and documents. |
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All Fields |
ALL |
ALL(orchestra) ALL searches for keywords in the citation and abstract. It is a full record search, but does not include a search on the full text. |
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Author |
AU
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AU(Armitage-Smith, Julian) Use to find documents written by a particular author. Try searching on both the full first name and initials in order to retrieve all publications by a specific author. |
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Broad Subject Headings |
BSU |
BSU(music history) Use to search for a broad subject heading that has been applied to an article. |
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Character |
CHR |
CHR(Figaro) Use to search for a character from an opera or other artistic work. |
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Country of Publication / Place of Publication |
CP |
CP(United Kingdom) Use to search for where a publication was produced. |
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Company |
ORG
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ORG(Greek National Opera) Search for a company or other organizations featured prominently in an article. |
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Digital Object Identifiers |
DOI |
DOI(10.1007/s00180-010-0212-6) Search for documents with DOIs using the DOI search. |
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Document Feature |
DF |
DF(Chart) Use to search for features in an article such as charts, diagrams, musical scores, and photographs. |
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Document Number |
AN |
AN(1153476) Searches both the ProQuest document ID (applied to all documents) and the 3rd party document ID (applied to some databases, such as PsycINFO). |
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Document Text |
FT |
FT(cello sonatas) Search for keywords in the body of the article. |
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Document Title |
TI
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TI(rock) Locates the occurrence of search words in the title of the article. |
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Document Type |
DType |
DType(performance review) |
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ISSN |
ISSN
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ISSN(00014788) This search field looks for the eight digit International Standard Serial Number (ISSN), where available. Hyphens are optional. |
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Issue |
ISS |
ISS(5) Use to search the issue number of a resource. |
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Journal Subject |
JSU |
JSU(opera) This field searches for the subjects assigned to the journals themselves. |
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Language |
LA |
LA(Spanish) Use to locate the original language of the document. |
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Location |
LOC |
LOC(Austin) Search for a specific geographic area or location. |
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Narrow Subject Heading |
NSU |
NSU(18th century) Use to search for a narrow subject heading that has been applied to an article. |
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Person |
PER |
PER(Frank Sinatra) Use to find articles about a person. |
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Publication Date |
PD |
PD(19871001) Use to find a specific publication date. |
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Publication Title |
PUB
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PUB(rolling stone) Use to search by a specific publication or publications. |
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Publication Year |
YR |
YR(2009) Use to find a specific publication year. |
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Publisher |
PB |
PB(Cambridge University Press) Use to search by a specific publisher. |
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Source type |
SType |
STYPE(newspapers) Use to find a specific source type such as trade journals, newspapers, and scholarly journals. |
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Subject Heading(All) |
SU |
SU(music) Use the subject search field to look for articles about a specific subject. A search for the subject heading “music,” will find articles with the broad subjects "music history" and "popular music", as well as the narrow subjects "jazz musicians" and "musical works". To run an exact subject search where only “music” is retrieved and not subject terms that contain additional terms, search using EXACT. SU.EXACT(music) |
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Tags |
TAG |
TAG(sax transcriptions) Use to search for Tags attached to articles. This field is user generated and only searches Tags that were made public by ProQuest users. |
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Volume |
VO |
VO(100) Use to search for the volume of a resource. |
Exclude: Reviews
The Exclude: Reviews limit allows you to remove all documents marked as a review - Article Review, Audio Review, Book Review, etc. - from your results without having to select all of them from the Document type limit.
Database Specific Limits and Fields
Broad subject heading, Narrow subject heading, and Person are part of the subject field search. They are defined as types of subjects and can be located by searching the subject field, but also are indexed separately and in addition to the subject as specific subject types. When a subject from a record happens to be a broad subject heading, a narrow subject heading, or a person, you will find a separate indexed subject field for these types. Subjects are also known as descriptors, subject headings, controlled vocabulary and sometimes classification terms.
See the list of the Broad Subject Headings here in the box on the right
Country of publication is the country where the publication was produced. Use the look up link next the to Country of publication search box to browse the list of countries and add them to your search.
To learn more about the look up feature, please visit the Searchable Fields section of this guide.
The Document type limit is used to refer to the format of the document. This includes journal articles, bibliographies, film reviews, musical notation, and many others. All are unchecked by default and if you leave them as such when you run your search, all document types will be included in your search. Limiting your search by marking any of the document types will then only run your search to include those document types you selected.
The Reference work limit is used to restrict your search to entries from the Naxos Music Library reference works that are integrated with the Music Periodicals Database. This includes the Music Glossary, Opera Synopses, Music Fundamental Terms, and Pronunciation Guides. All are unchecked by default and if you leave them as such when you run your search, all reference works will be included in your search. Limiting your search by marking any of the reference works will then only run your search to include those reference works you selected.
The Document feature limit can be used when you want to limit your search to items that contain additional graphical images such as charts, tables, photos, or musical scores. All are unchecked by default and if you leave them as such when you run your search, all document features will be included in your search. Limiting your search by marking any of the document features will then only run your search to include those document features you selected.
The Language limit is used to restrict your search to documents published in one or more languages. All are unchecked by default and if you leave them as such when you run your search, all languages will be included in your search. Limiting your search by marking any of the languages will then only run your search to include those languages you selected.