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Music quick guide: Musical theater: Home

Online and print resources

About this guide

This is the musical theater quick guide. The main music research guide covers general topics. Related guides (listed in box at bottom right) cover other aspects of music.

Locating books, recordings, scores, and articles

Classic Catalog (MIT Libraries catalog)
To find specific materials owned by MIT.
"Search Our Collections" (Classic catalog + e-resources)
Searches most MIT-licensed e-resources, including full-text articles.
Finding music materials in MIT's catalog
Music call numbers
Search tools & what they do best

Browse the shelves for books on musical theater: ML1711; ML2054.

Databases for musical theater

Music Index Online (journal articles)
MIT only. Indexes music articles in journals 1949-1974 (print) and 1974-present (online).
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (journal articles and more)
JSTOR music collection (full-text journal articles)
Theater arts research guide
MIT Libraries research guide for theater arts

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

Oxford Music Online (includes Grove's Dictionary of Music)
Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music

Many print-only encyclopedias and bibliographies are available in the library; see especially Ref ML102.M88 and Ref ML128.M78.

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Related guides

Research guide: Music

Research guide: Theater Arts

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