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Locate music books, recordings, scores, articles, & e-resources

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

Browse the shelves for books on the history of singing: ML1460
Books on choral music: ML1500-
Books on opera: ML1700
Books on musicals: ML2054

Find music journal articles

These sources may list articles not listed in Search our Collections:

Music Index Online (journal articles)
Indexes music articles in journals 1970-present.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text (journal articles and more)
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text expands and enhances the unrivaled global bibliography of writings on music with content from 260 key periodicals published from the early 20th century to the present. It offers articles and reviews as well as obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, and news in full text, which can be searched and browsed for each issue, cover to cover. Each year new journals are being added to the full-text collection.
JSTOR Scholarly Journal Archive (full-text journal articles)
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.

Indexes to songs in collections

The Fake Book Index
Searchable index of over 75 "fake books"

Songs in collections may not be listed in Search Our Collections. WorldCat may give more details, or use print-only bibliographies and indexes to locate these songs. See especially Ref ML128.S3 and Ref ML120.U5.S5.