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International Index to Music Periodicals
Indexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals, plus full text for 83 journals.
Music Index
This database covers 775 periodicals from 1975 to the present. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.
Music Online
Most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web.Single cross-searchable platform that can potentially cross-search any combination of subscribed databases. When complete, Music Online will offer more than 400,000 audio tracks, 400,000 scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. Users can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.
Project Muse
With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
This database provides access to periodical literature dealing with music from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
The RISM Series A/II Database contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 740,000 music incipits.
Pronouncing Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Pronouncing the titles of classical music and the names of composers and performers is a daunting task for many Americans because so many of the words are foreign to us. Adding to the difficulty is the fact that some of the names that look familiar are not pronounced as we would pronounce them. This dictionary provides some help in the form of pronunciations by a phonetic system devised by E. Douglas Brown of the staff of WOI Radio at Iowa State University. Many of the pronunciations in the dictionary were derived from tape-recorded pronunciations made by foreign nationals who were speaking their respective native languages.
Prepared primarily for the announcing staff of WOI, the dictionary has been found useful by them and is being made freely available to others who may find it of value. Although imperfect and far from complete, the dictionary, with its 30,000 entries, is the most extensive of its type now available.
Current Research @ CIC Institutions
Full text of all CIC dissertations (including University of Iowa, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison) from 1997 to the present. Abstracts are available for earlier dissertations.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines and contains more than 13,600 records.
Music Theory Online Dissertation Index
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (Full Text) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. It includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. The Database offers researchers unlimited access to digital copies from their own institutions as well as affordable copies from others.
Grove Music: New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Now called: Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online
Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
The RISM Series A/II Database contains bibliographic records of music manuscripts written after 1600. The records include information in standard bibliographic categories as well as graphical images of over 740,000 music incipits.
American Music Resources (Society for American Music)
Archive of World Music, Harvard University
Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC)
Established in 1991, AAAMC is a repository of materials covering various musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era.
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America
Iberian and Latin-American Music Online
Latin American Music Center, Indiana University
The Max Hunter Folk Song Collection
19th-Century California Sheet Music
African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
American Singing: Nineteenth-century Song Sheets
Historic American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
Inventions of Note Sheet Music Collection
Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music
Sheet Music About Lincoln, Emancipation, and the Civil War
International Index to Music Periodicals
Indexing and abstracts for more than 420 international music periodicals, plus full text for 83 journals.
Music Index
This database covers 775 periodicals from 1975 to the present. Topics concerned with every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
This database provides access to periodical literature dealing with music from the 18th to the 20th centuries.
International Saxophone Homepage
International Society of Bassists
International Trombone Association
International Tuba Euphonium Association
National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors
National Flute Association, Inc.
New Directions Cello Association
North American Saxophone Alliance
Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University
International Association for Jazz Education
The Jazz Discography
General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc.
National Ragtime and Jazz Archive
Satchmo.net: the Official Site of the Louis Armstrong House & Archives
The William Ransom Hogan Archive of New Orleans Jazz
JSTOR (Journal Storage)
Provides image and full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues. Journals may be searched across multiple titles as well as by the individual titles below. The JSTOR database does NOT include full-text of the most recent 3 to 5 years.
Project Muse
With full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
File Collection of Music Scores
This vertical file collection includes music that, for various reasons, has not been cataloged as part of the regular collection but that has value for teaching, performance, and research.
RBML Archive of Local Performances
A collection of audio-cassette tapes of recitals by School of Music faculty and concerts by the major School Ensembles is provided through the services of the Recording Studios.
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature (Indiana University)
The Contemporary Music Documentation Center (IRCAM)
From Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Music (IRCAM).
Music Theory Resources
Includes: First aid for struggling theory students, Music Theory Index, and Electronic Journal of Music Theory and Analysis.
American Musicological Society
Beethoven Bibliography Database
Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant
Edinburgh University Collection of Historical Musical Instruments
International Musicological Society
J.S. Bach Archive and Bibliography
MIML: Musical Instruction and Musical Learning
MIML is a web-based bibliography on Musical Instruction and Musical Learning from 1450-1650. This bibliography is designed to cover the secondary literature on how music was taught and learned during the two-century period 1450 to 1650, elucidating aspects such as the institutions, traditions, and practices of musical pedagogy in the Early Modern Period.
Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Online
The purpose of this web site, operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute, is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study, scholarly and educational use. This web site contains the musical text of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (www.nma.at), issued by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg in colaboration with the Mozart cities of Augsburg, Salzburg, and Vienna since 1954.
TMIWeb
TmiWeb is the online version of Thesaurus musicarum italicarum, an electronic corpus of Italian music treatises from the Renaissance and early Baroque. It contains the works of two of Italy's most important authors on music theory, Pietro Aaron (c. 1480-c.1545) and Gioseffo Zarlino (1570-1590), as well as a number of writings by their contemporaries. Nearly 30 works are online on TmiWeb.
International Alliance for Women in Music
American String Teachers Association
International Society for Music Education
Music Educators National Conference
Music Teachers National Association
Center for Black Music Research
Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
Medieval Institute (Western Michigan University)
International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres
Midwest Chapter, Music Library Association
Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (BGSU)
American Music Therapy Association
British Society for Music Therapy
Canadian Association for Music Therapy
Copyright for Music Librarians
Prepared by the Legislation Committee of the Music Library Association.
Hofmeister XIX
Hofmeister XIX is an on-line, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 400,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period.
Music Publishers' Association
Includes addresses and websites for music publishers.
The Music-in-Print Series
Includes the Music-In-Print volumes on Sacred Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, and Piano Music. Also Band, Brass, Handbell, Percussion, Harp, Secular Choral and Organ Music, Chamber Music and Popular Music.
Public Domain Music
A reference site to help identify public domain songs and public domain music . . . royalty free music you can use anywhere and any way you choose . . . performance, sing-along, film, video, advertising, business, or personal.
African American Music
[Content from African American Music is now a part of American Song.] African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Includes a few spoken word recordings.
American Song
American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
Classical Music Library
A classical music service that enables listening and learning at library and home computers. It includes around 15,000 recordings, along with program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
A collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including Classical music, Historical recordings, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
Includes the Fantasy Jazz collection, which is different content than the jazz included in Naxos Music Library.
Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound is a network of international cultural institutions working to preserve and distribute music from archives worldwide, and to foster appreciation for traditional roots music. Through its Web site, Global Sound will offer audio and video downloads, streaming media, educational resources, and detailed liner notes to music lovers, students, historians, teachers, and the academic community. Also, various musical collections will be available for purchase and immediate download.
American Choral Directors' Association
BMI
Database of popular songs, with publisher and copyright information.
Choral Net: The Internet Center for Choral Music
Choralnet
The starting point for all questions and concerns about choral music, with links to nearly 1000 other sites.
Musica, Virtual Choral Library
Aims to create an exhaustive database of the choral music repertoire of the world. A cooperative venture of choral music associations and publishers in 11 countries, with a current database of over 67,000 items.
National Association of Teachers of Singing, Inc.
The Classical Music Navigator
Categories include composers, basic library of notable works, geographical roster, index of forms and styles of music, and glossary.
ERIC (CSA version)
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through EBSCOhost or CSA. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: There is a choice of interface based on user preference.
ERIC (EBSCOhost version)
ERIC focuses on journal and non-journal education-related topics. ERIC subject descriptors are listed in the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors, available at the public service desks in the Hardin Library for the Health Sciences, Main Library and the Psychology Library as well as electronically through EBSCOhost or CSA. Full-text of ERIC documents from 1993 to the present is available from the ERIC website free. NOTE: There is a choice of interface based on user preference.
European Library
The European Library offers access to the resources of the national libraries of Europe. Some resources provide only bibliographical information (drawn from the libraries' catalogs) and some provide access to digital collections held by those libraries (digitized copies of manuscripts, maps, journals, books, etc.).
Gaylord Music Library Necrology (birth and death dates)
Excellent source for birth/death dates of composers, performers, and others related to the musical arts.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room
National Music Museum, University of South Dakota
New Grove Dictionary of Opera / edited by Stanley Sadie
"First published 1992 by the Macmillan Press Limited, London" -T.p. verso.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Royal Holloway's Golden Pages: Links for Musicians on the WWW
Links for musicians on the WWW, including general dictionaries and encyclopedias, musical dissertation abstracts, and extensive list of electronic journals, music department and faculty home pages.