Music 

• Research Guide: Music
  
  
• Lewis Music Library FAQ
  
  
• Writing a Music Paper
  
  
• Quick Guides:
  
  
  • Classical Music
  
  
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  • Jazz
  
  
  • Music of the United States
  
  
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  • Pop and Rock Music
  
  
  • Songs
  
  
  • World Music

To find materials owned by MIT, use Barton:

Barton Advanced Search

Locating Citations to Articles, Books, Dissertations

• Music Index Online - info
• RILM Abstracts Online (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) - info
• WorldCat - info
• Dissertations and Theses - info

To broaden your music search, use Vera Multi-Search

SFX for Full-text Journal Articles

• To get the articles found in indexes, click the button in the citation
• Have a complete article citation? Use the Full-Text Finder

Full-text Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Oxford Music Online includes:
  • Grove Music Online
  • Oxford Dictionary of Music
  • Oxford Companion to Music
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians - info
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - info

Full-text Books and Scores

• Public Domain Music Scores
• Early English Books Online (EEBO) - info
• Internet Archive (texts)

Streaming Audio

• American Song - info
• Contemporary World Music - info
• Database of Recorded American Music [DRAM] - info
• Internet Archive (audio)
• Naxos Jazz - info
• Naxos Music Library - info

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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