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Databases for Music

September 29, 2025 • 1:54 pm

Music – Best Bets

  • Grove Music Online
    The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory, and cultures of music around the globe. More info
  • Music Index
    Indexes more than 850 music periodicals from more than 40 countries covering all styles and genres of music. More info
  • Oxford Music Online
    Provides access to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which includes The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. More info
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
    Includes all formats of scholarly works on music and related fields--articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, films and videos, and conference proceedings. More info

Music – Also Useful

  • Anthropology Plus
    Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Provides citations to articles and essays from over 1,000 journals, monographic series, reports, commentaries, and review essays. More info
  • Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
    Journal database covering art, architecture, design, history, philosopy, music, literature, theater, and more. More info
  • Classical Performance in Video (Music Online)
    An additional 2,300+ videos of classical performances, masterclasses, and lectures. More info
  • Digital Theatre Plus
    Gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials. More info
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music
    Covers popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day. More info
  • Grove Music Online
    The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory, and cultures of music around the globe. More info
  • Met Opera on Demand
    Metropolitan Opera On Demand includes more than 800 full-length Met performances. More info
  • Music & Performing Arts
    Combines music, audio, and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists. More info
  • Naxos Music Library
    Limited to 10 simultaneous users. Comprehensive collection of classical music, contemporary jazz, world, folk, adult contemporary, Chinese, pop, and rock music. More info
  • Naxos Video Library
    Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries. More info
  • New York Times (Nexis Uni)
    Covers the New York Times Late Edition (East Coast) (1980-present), the New York Times Magazine (1997-present), and the New York Times Book Review (1997-present). More info
  • Opera in Video (Music Online)
    Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. More info
  • Organ Cinema
    An ever-expanding filmed encyclopedia of the organ and its history and repertoire, created by Fugue State Films and the Royal College of Organists. More info
  • Oxford Companion to Music
    Offers over 8,000 articles across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. More info
  • Oxford Dictionary of Music
    Over 12,500 entries covering musical subjects of all kinds including entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics. More info
  • Performing Arts Periodicals Database
    Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals, covering a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry. More info
  • Recent Researches in Music Online
    Provides access to the complete content of the seven Recent Researches in Music series, scholarly performance editions of music. More info

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Rebecca Shaw
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Gary Boye
Gary Boye