Music Resources
Music Resources
Welcome to the Music Resources Research Guide!
The Music Resources Guide is a hub for research and information. Within this guide, users will find resources specific to music scholarship and performance, as well as useful tools and tips.
In the left column, navigation tabs link to various subject pages within the Music Resources guide. By hovering over these navigation tabs, users can view a dropdown list of sub-categories within each subject page.
Frequently Used Resources
Databases
- Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new windowOnline access to 8 ProQuest dissertations & theses databases.
- Music Index This link opens in a new windowThe Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry from more than 850 publications.
- Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new windowThe Music Periodicals Database indexes hundreds of music journals covering a broad scope of research from performance, theory and composition to music education, jazz and ethnomusicology.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to present only) This link opens in a new windowRILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. There are currently over 540,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music, representing disciplines that include musicology, ethnomusicology, pedagogy, psychology, anthropology, sociology and others.
- RIPM, Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals This link opens in a new windowRIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) is an international, highly annotated database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950.
Media
- Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new windowClassical Music Library includes recordings of music written from the earliest times (eg Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. The database contains over 50,000 recordings from more than 30 labels.
- DRAM This link opens in a new windowDRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) provides streaming audio recordings from New World Records and other labels. Recordings are accompanied by liner notes and are keyword-searchable using various criteria including composer, performer, and label of origin.
- Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music.
- Naxos Music Library WORLDNaxos Music Library WORLD offers a wide range of World music, from legendary historical musical performances to contemporary world music. Recordings of over 32,000 artists are represented. Key features of Naxos Music LIbrary World include: music from more than 1,500 cultural groups and over 150 countries, and the ability to search the database profoundly with a meta-data driven Advanced Search.
- Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new windowOpera in Video contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Reference
- Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new windowThe Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowOxford Music Online now incorporates Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Print Resources
- Cambridge Companions Complete Collection This link opens in a new windowCambridge Companions are a series of authoritative guides, written by leading experts, offering lively, accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics, and periods.
- Project MUSE This link opens in a new windowProject MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE offers full-text versions of scholarly journals as well as quality book-length scholarship.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowWorldCat contains all the records cataloged by OCLC member libraries. records represent 400 languages and materials in many different formats.
Scores
- Music Online: Classical Scores Library: Volume I This link opens in a new windowThe collection includes works from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Coverage of score types is comprehensive, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions.
- IMSLP/Petrucci Music LibraryIMSLP stands for the International Music Score Library Project. The ultimate goal of the IMSLP is to gather all public domain music scores, in addition to the music scores of all contemporary composers (or their estates) who wish to release them to the public free of charge.
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