Music

Music Reference Sources

Article Databases and Indexes

Audio Recordings

Digital Scores

Websites

Music Reference Sources

• Grove Music Online, now Oxford Music Online (MHC Only)
  Standard authoritative reference source including electronic versions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001) and now The Oxford Companion to Music (2002),  and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006) . The Library also owns the printed version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians with a copy in the reference sections of both the main Library and the Pratt Music Library at call number ML100 .N48 2001 Ref.

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (MHC Only)
  An index to citations, with abstracts, on international music literature. It offers citations from over 300 sources in 202 languages, including original language titles with title translations and abstracts in English; full bibliographic information; author, journal and in-depth subject indexes. The database contains all formats of scholarly works--articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, conference proceedings and lists concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals if they are of scholarly interest. Updated monthly. Corresponds to the print index RILM (Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale), which can be found in the Pratt Music Library at call number ML 1 .R2 Ref. for the years 1967 - 1995. Journals Indexed in RILM.
• Music Index
  An index to over 600 music periodicals. Printed volumes [v.1(1949)-v.54(2002)- ] are located at MH/Pratt Reference ML118 .M84.
• JSTOR
  A digital archive of backfiles (i.e., NOT current issues) of academic journals including a Music Collection (56 journals). Searchable by keyword, author, title. Use JSTOR Search screen and click Music and/or other collections for your search.
• Project Muse
  A digital archive of recent issues of some academic journals. Searchable across journals by keyword, author, title, and subject through the Basic search screen. Or use the Project Muse "quick navigation" tool to select the subject Category Music and choose a specific journal to search.
  

Online Audio Recordings

• Classical.com's Classical Music Library (MHC Only)
  A digitized collection of over 12,000 tracks of classical music recordings, fully licensed for listening online. The Classical Music Library also includes reference resources (program notes, composer biographies, chronologies, images, etc.) which are cross-referenced with the recordings. There is also the option to download recordings to your own computer or to a CD for a small fee per-track. The collection can be searched or browsed in a variety of ways and recordings can be organized into personal playlists for future listening or study.
• Naxos Music Library (MHC Only)
  Very similar to Classical.com, Naxos Music Library is a collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. It also includes notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database.

Digital Scores

• CD-Sheet Music Collection (available at the Music and Dance Library)
  Hundreds of printable sheet music and scores in .pdf format for flute, guitar, organ, piano, strings and voice.
• Choral Public Domain Library
  Begun in December 1998, CPDL is one of the world's largest free sheet music sites.
  You can use CPDL to find scores, texts, translations, and information about composers.
• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), Petrucci Music Library
  An internet-based collaborative music score library, providing tens of thousands of scores composed by thousands of composers all available for free download.

Other Web Resources

• Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University School of Music)
• Music Reference Works (University of California, Berkeley, The Music Library)
• Music Library Resources (University of Washington)

• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music (University of Washington)
• Women Composers and Women's Music (Indiana University School of Music)

• MHC Pratt Music and Dance Library
• The Rest of the World