Music Library
Research databases
Research databases Menu
See all music databases
Connect from off campus
Try xSearch for cross-database searching
Reference works |
|||
| Oxford Music Online |
Includes Grove Music Online |
What's new? | |
| Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) |
The premier German-language music encyclopedia |
||
| Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music |
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology |
What's new? | |
| Oxford Reference Works: Performing Arts |
Search multiple encyclopedias and dictionaries on opera, theater, and related topics |
||
| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | Devoted to music research of all the world's peoples; includes audio examples |
What's new? | Help |
| Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | Concise biographies | ||
| Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments | Instruments and their makers | ||
| Musical America | Current news and directories | What's new? | |
| The Cambridge Companions to Music | Online books on a wide variety of music topics. | ||
| Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres | Cross-index of data for over 41,000 opera and oratorio premieres | ||
| IPA Source | International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. | ||
| Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive | Core trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. | ||
| Music Industry Data | International charting albums and singles under exclusive academic licence from Billboard. | ||
| Digital Resources for Musicology | Links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists. Maintained by CCARH. | ||
| Virtual Library of Musicology (ViFa Musik) | A portal to "an extensive digital library containing the latest scholarly research and online resources" | ||
Discographies |
|||
| Bielefelder Kataloge Klassik | Classical | ||
| The Jazz Discography | Jazz | Help | |
| Discography of American Historical Recordings | Multiple genres | Help | |
|
Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) |
Multiple genres | ||
| Multiple genres | |||
Indexes to periodical literature |
|||
|
|
Articles, reviews, obituaries. Bulk coverage 1996-present | Help | |
| RILM | Articles, reviews, commentary, dissertations. 1967-present | About | Video intro |
| Music Index | Articles, reviews, obituaries, dissertations. 1973-present | Help | |
| RIPM | Articles published ca. 1800-1950 | What's new? | Help |
| Bibliographie des Musikschriftums |
International and interactive bibliography of literature on music |
Help | |
| Xsearch | Search multiple resources; see "music" under humanities | ||
Indexes to printed music and manuscripts |
|||
| RISM | Historical manuscripts | Video update | Help |
| Index to Printed Music | Monuments, critical editions | Help | |
| Notnaia Letopsis | Russian music publications | ||
| Hofmeister XIX | 19th century music published in German-speaking countries | About | Help |