The Music Index Now Available via EBSCOhost ®
Database a Result of Partnership between EBSCO Publishing and Harmonie Park Press

IPSWICH, Mass. — January 20, 2006 — EBSCO Publishing, a leading producer and distributor of online research databases, and Harmonie Park Press, an international leader in music reference publishing for over fifty-five years, are pleased to announce the availability of The Music Index through the EBSCOhost^® platform. Published since 1949, The Music Index is the single most comprehensive annual subject-author guide to music literature.

The Music Index contains surveyed data from more than 725 international music periodicals from over 40 countries in 23 languages. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music are thoroughly categorized and organized according to the framework of an internal Subject List, which includes both Subject and Geographic headings. Covering all styles and genres of music, The Music Index duly cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, as well as news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry. The thoroughness of indexing and subject heading research, along with comprehensive coverage of the music field, makes The Music Index an invaluable resource for both the novice scholar and the experienced academician.

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