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Related Guides
Music Indexes
- RILM Abstracts of Musical LiteratureProvides citations and abstracts to articles, dissertations and books on music. Includes some non-English language material. Primarily scholarly. 1967 to present.
Online Music Reference Materials
- Oxford Music OnlineSearchable music encyclopedia that includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, and the Oxford Companion of Music. The Grove Dictionary of Opera only appears as archived material and is not searchable separately.
- New Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd editionThe articles of the dictionary range from small definitions of dance styles and musical terms to mid-length biographies of important performers, composers, and music patrons, to longer examinations of larger subjects such as the history of jazz, musical instruments, music education in the US and the American history of the orchestra.
- Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the ArtsAn in-depth, comprehensive reference work that covers the cultural history of biblical texts, themes, characters, images, and the Bible itself in the literary, visual, and musical arts
- IPA SourceCollection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
- Musical Theater SongsSearch for individual songs in musicals by voice type, character's age, and tempo, and select whether comedic or dramatic. Additional searching by composer, lyricist and more. Actual scores are generally not included.
- IPA IntroductionA video introduction to vowels and diphthongs using IPA, created by a dialect coach.
General Indexes that may be helpful in Music Research
- Academic Search CompleteFind articles in all subject areas in over 9000 journals and magazines, with full text for about 6100. Updated daily. Dates vary, some as early as 1865 to present.
- JSTORJSTOR includes several collections of full-text scholarly journals. Music Collections are part of the larger Arts & Sciences III and IV. All journals in JSTOR start with the first volume of publication and run through 3, 4, or 5 years ago.
- OCLC WorldCatCatalog of books, scores, recordings, videos, and other material worldwide in OCLC member libraries. (Does not include book chapters or individual articles in journals, magazines, and newspapers.) Includes considerable non-English language material.
- ProQuest Dissertations & ThesesCitations to all U.S. doctoral dissertations and some masters theses on all topics. Abstracts can be found for dissertations since 1980. (Formerly called Dissertation Abstracts International.) 1861 to present.
Other Music Resources
- Digitized Music Scores from the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of MusicSearch or browse digitized music scores.
- International Music Score Library ProjectA user-generated database of digitized scores. There are copyright warnings and restrictions on some items.
- The Opera PlatformOpen access video performances of operas.
- Band Music PDFBandMusic PDF Library are conservators and stewards of band music from the time of John Philip Sousa, Karl L. King, Henry Fillmore and all the other great composers who were active during the Golden Age of the American Town Band. Special focus is public domain music from the 1880s through 1922.
Online Recordings
- Naxos Music LibrarySearch for, browse among and listen to classical, jazz and other musical recordings. Date range does not apply. All recordings available in full.
Scores, CDs and Videos at the Monroe Library
- Search for Books, Scores, CDs, and DVDs in the Monroe LibraryFollow this link to search for books, scores, CDs, and DVDs in the Monroe Library. Pull down the menu under Everything to change the search to scores, CDs, or DVDs. All music books, scores, and recordings are on the first floor of the Monroe Library.