Music Periodicals Database The Music Periodicals Database is a music journal resource with more than1.3 million articles from 1874 to the present. It provides indexing and abstracts for nearly 800 international music periodicals and full text from 350 journals. MPD covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine all subjects and aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.