Music 

Locating Articles, Books, Dissertations

Music Index Online

• Lists contents of over 700 music periodicals from 1974-present

RILM Abstracts Online (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale)

• Over 500,000 citations
• Lists journal articles, books, and other publications from 1967-present
• Entries in 215 languages from 151 countries

WorldCat

• Lists 1.2 billion library records including books, scores, CDs, and videos/DVDs
• More than 10,000 participating libraries worldwide

Dissertations and Theses

• Lists over 27,000 music dissertations from 1980 on
• Includes 350-word abstracts

Full-text Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Oxford Music Online includes:

Grove Music Online

• Over 29,000 articles written by the world's leading music authorities
• Formerly known as New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Oxford Dictionary of Music

• 12,500 entries
• Defines topics such as musical terms, forms, instruments, and more

Oxford Companion to Music

• More than 8,000 articles
• Concise definitions of musical ideas and terms
• Extended discussions of musical forms and styles

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

• Covers many musical genres
• Entries by distinguished specialists
• Also contains original articles by Nicholas Slonimsky
• Published in 2001
  

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

• Over 9,000 pages of material on world music
• Entries by more than 700 contributors

Full-text Journal Articles

JSTOR Music Collection

• 32 music journals (most recent years not included)
• Includes standard scholarly music journals

Directory of Open Access Journals

• 30 freely available music journals

Full-text Books and Scores

Public Domain Music Scores

Early English Books Online (EEBO)

• Contains nearly every work printed in English-speaking countries from 1473-1700
• Around 125,000 titles including many music scores

Internet Archive (texts)

• Includes thousands of public domain music books

Streaming Audio

American Song

• Over 900 albums, nearly 16,000 tracks
• Genres such as African American, American Folk, American Indian, Bluegrass, Tex-Mex, and more

Contemporary World Music

• Over 800 albums, over 11,000 tracks of world music
• Includes reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres

Database of Recorded American Music [DRAM]

• Over 9,800 compositions (1,500 CDs)
• American composers and artists from New World, CRI, and other important labels

Internet Archive (audio)

• Over 100,000 free digital recordings

Naxos Jazz

• Nearly 23,000 tracks from over 2,300 CDs
• Over 500 jazz artists

Naxos Music Library

• More than 322,000 tracks of music, representing 22,500 CDs
• Mostly classical but includes other genres

Music Meta-Sites

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University)
• Music Resources (Sibelius Academy)
• WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists (American Musicological Society)

 

Peter Munstedt
Lewis Music Librarian
pmunsted@mit.edu

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