Databases | Websites | Print Resources
Databases
Oxford Music Online
The Oxford Music Online includes the full text of the 29-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the 4-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the 3-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition).
JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic collection of full text scholarly journals including 33 journals on Music. The complete archives of these journals are available starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s. The most recent 3-5 years of each journal are not included.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides the full-text articles, including 11 journals on Music. This database offers approximately 300 peer-reviewed scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Also links to full-text articles in JSTOR.
Ebrary
Ebrary contains thousands of full text electronic books on music, and thousands more in other disciplines.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 3,600 peer-reviewed journals including 85 magazines and journals on Music. All major academic subject areas are covered.
Directory of Open Access Journals
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals including 25 journals on Music. There are now 2,883 journals in the directory. Currently 927 journals are searchable at article level.
MasterFile Select
EBSCO MasterFile Select provides full text for more than 700 general reference magazines and journals including 43 magazines and journals on Music.
ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides the full text of over 1,200 journals, including 26 journals on Music. It has a mix of general interest and academic journals that cover the arts, business, education, health, humanities, psychology, sciences, and the social sciences.
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Websites
Online Resources for Music Scholars, Loeb Music Library of Harvard University
http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/music/resources/index.html
Wonderful resources including a comprehensive collection of digital sheet music and multimedia resources.
Scholarly Societies Project: Music
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/music_soc.html
This University of Waterloo site facilitates access to websites of scholarly music societies across the world, and ranks them by URL stability.
Online Resources from the University of Washington Music Library
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/Music/
Includes great links to scores and sheet music, e-texts, directories, and more.
Stanford University Music Library Links of Interest
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/music/research_help/outsidelinks.html
Includes resources on popular music, jazz, composers, and more.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/
A low-tech list of resources, but with great content, created by the William & Gayle Cook Music Library of Indiana University. Hundreds of links to information on genres and types of music, composers, musicians, groups and ensembles, performance, scholarly and commercial music sites.
American Musicological Society: Sites of Interest to Musicologists
http://www.ams-net.org/musicology_www.php
Comprehensive directory of informative sites useful for musicologists.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
http://nypl.org/research/lpa/lpa.html
NYPL's Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center offers both circulating and research collections, including many primary sources. They also offer exhibitions, public programs, and research services.
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Selected Print Resources
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Call Number REF ML 100.G16 1998
Each volume includes an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances.
Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Call Number REF ML 102.P66 G84
The goal of this encyclopedia is specifically to treat musics found in no other reference sources, such as reggae, Latin music and African pop. Also includes some light opera, information about chart positions and recordings, with over 14,500 entries.
International Dictionary of Black Composers
Call Number REF ML 105.I5 1999
This 2 volume set provides information about a cross-section of composers of African heritage throughout the world. The IDBC contains biographical sketches, works-lists bibliographies with discographical information, lists of publications by and about the composers, and critical essays about the composers and some of their most important works, giving users both facts and interpretive perspectives from scholars in the field.
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Call Number REF ML 100.N48 2001
This collection offers information on the history and development of music, instruments, musical forms and terms, musical cities and institutions, and thousands of eminent composers and performers. The text is fully illustrated with photographs, drawings and musical examples, and all major articles include extensive bibliographies.
Oxford Companion to Jazz
Call Number REF ML 3507.O94 2000
This companion features individual biographies of the most memorable characters of this relatively young art form, looks at the impact of jazz on American culture, the essential instruments of jazz and their most memorable players. Looking beyond the United States, it also considers the profound interaction Jazz has with the music of Brazil, Latin America, Europe, Japan, Africa, and Canada and Australia.
Source Readings in Music History
Call Number REF ML 160.S89 1998
The definitive collection of great writings on music from ancient Greece through the twentieth century, providing readers with a comprehensive picture of Western musical thought and ideas through the ages.
World Chronology of Music History
Call Number REF ML 161.E4
Detailed chronology of music history worldwide, including forms, styles, development of different theories, individual composers, and highlights of what was happening in other arts.
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Created by Cathy Perkins. Last updated September 2008.
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