Research

Subject Guide: Music

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Reference Materials

Reference materials provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.

Grove Music Online:
The online version of the standard music reference.

Oxford Reference Books Online / Performing Arts Section:
Online access to seven of Oxford's performing arts reference books, four of which are music-related.

Dictionary of Musical Terms in Four Languages / DEN Ref ML108 .S64 D5

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Rock History / DEN Ref ML3534 .G754 2006

NAXOS Online Music Library:
Streaming digital audio for classical, jazz, world, folk, and new age music. Browse by category, genre, or composer/group.

NAXOS Online Music Library Jazz:
Streaming digital audio for jazz music.

BROWSE for other music reference books in the ML call numbers of the Reference area (3rd floor).

Databases & Indexes

Databases and indexes provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

Music Index:
Citations for articles back to 1949, representing some journals not covered in RILM.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature:
Abstracts & citations from 414 music periodicals; also, information about dissertations, books, and conference proceedings. From 1969 to the present.

International Index to the Performing Arts:
Some full text, from 210 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals. Coverage dates depend upon the title.

JSTOR Journal Archive:
Contains full-text articles for 33 music journals from volume 1, issue 1. DOES NOT contain any RECENT articles. To search, make sure you click the box on the Advanced Search screen for the Music collection.

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

Web Portals:

Librarians' Index to the Internet: Music Page. Browse or search this librarian-created web directory.
Worldwide Internet Music Resources - Indiana University
Music Web Sites - The Sibelius Academy
DW3 - Duke University's Classical Music Resources

Professional Organizations:

American Musicological Society
CCRMA - The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics
The National Association for Music Education - MENC
ASCAP: The American Society of Composers, Arrangers, and Publishers

Online Audio & Music Score Sites:

Charles H. Templeton Museum: Sheet Music Collection - Missisippi State University
Variations Project: Online Musical Scores
From the University of Indiana Music Library; pdf files of music scores.
The Classical Music Archives:
The largest classical music site on the web: 31,567 full length classical music files by 1,915 composers. Listen to 5 files per day for FREE.