Searching for information about music in the nineteenth century means looking through journals, magazine, newspapers, and other periodical resources. The Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (or RIPM) provides indexed searching of much musical literature from this era. Open access, large-scale digitization projects, such as HathiTrust, provide a great deal of access to the full-text issues. For any articles not available open access or in print at Iowa, Interlibrary Loan can be used to obtain content.

The HathiTrust Nineteenth Century Periodicals collection will be reviewed annually for additions, as will the list of Periodical Literature with links to full-text.

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