CAIRSS for Music

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CAIRSS is a bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. Citations have been taken from 1,354 different journal titles; 18 of which are primary journals, meaning that every article ever to appear is included. The primary journals are:

  • Arts in Psychotherapy
  • Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education
  • Bulletin of the National Association for Music Therapy
  • Contributions to Music Education
  • Hospital Music Newsletter
  • International Journal of Arts Medicine
  • Journal of the Association for Music and Imagery
  • Journal of Music Teacher Education
  • Journal of Music Therapy
  • Journal of Research in Music Education
  • Medical Problems of Performing Artists
  • Music Perception
  • Music Therapy
  • Music Therapy Perspectives
  • Psychology of Music
  • Psychomusicology
  • The Quarterly
  • Update: Applications of Research to Music Education

The CAIRSS Thesaurus is available from the IMR. Find out about it on our Publications page.

For more information on CAIRSS, please contact Don Hodges at dhodges@utsa.edu; phone (210) 458-5317; fax (210) 458-4381.


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