Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music Online version of Colin Larkin's 10-volume The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th edition.
- MGG Online General encyclopedia of music. Stands with Groves as a basic source for music research.
Grove Music Online
To move from Oxford Music Online to only Grove Music Online:
•Click on ABOUT on the navigation bar
•Under What would you like to do? Click on the link under Take me to Grove Music Online
MGG Online (Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart)
Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online includes the following resources:
- Grove Music Online
- Oxford Companion to Music
- Oxford Dictionary of Music
To search all the Oxford Music Online resources at once:
- type your term(s) in the search box
To move from Oxford Music Online to only Grove Music Online:
- click on ABOUT on the navigation bar
- Under What would you like to do? Click on the link under Take me to Grove Music Online
IPA
Histories, Bibliographies, & Indexes
- Index to Printed Music (IPM) Resource for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions.
- Oxford Bibliographies in Music Bibliographic "topic guides" to selected resources in music. Provides an introduction to the specialized literature on major and minor topics within music.
Abstracting & Indexing Databases
The "R" Projects
- RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales International Inventory of Musical Sources
Dissertations & Theses
ProQuest provides full-text online access for many dissertations and theses and RILM provides abstracts for dissertations and theses.
Scores Online for Printing and Study
- A-R Music Anthology (ARMA) Music and articles designed expressly for music history courses. Students can print out any of the scores for class or personal use.
- Classical Scores Library (Music Online) Over 53,000 scores that student can print out for class or personal use.
Audio & Video Streaming
- American Music Contains over 50,000 songs of American music: folk, roots, early R&B, blues, jazz, gospel, spirituals, reggae, bluegrass, rockabilly, etc. Also contains "African American Song."
Beyond Groves and Taruskin
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians REF ML105.B16 2001
Dictionnaire de la musique REF ML100 .D65
Enciclopedia della musica REF ML100 .E45
Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire REF ML100 .E5
Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana REF ML101.S7 D53 1999
The Harvard Dictionary of Music REF ML100.A64 2003
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart REF ML100 .M92 1994