Research Resources

Additional Resources

Web Sites & Guides

Indiana University Music Library
Duke University Music Library
Royal Holloway Music Dept.
Sibelius Academy Music Resources
American Musicological Society

Reference Sources

Grove Music Online

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition

Con Ref ML100 .N48 2001 vol. 1-29

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Laura Kuhn, Baker's series advisory editor. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.

Con Ref ML105 .B16 2001 v.1-6

The Harvard Dictionary of Music. edited by Don Michael Randel. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Con Ref ML100 .H37 2003

Praktisches Wörterbuch der Musik : Italienisch, Englisch, Deutsch, Französisch. Roberto Braccini. Mainz : Schott ; Munchen: Piper, 1992.

Con Ref ML108 .B59 1992

Composers Dates

Necrology List (Washington U.)
MLA Obituary Index

Online Journals

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center: Fine and Performing Arts

Includes more than 3 million articles from nearly 5,000 journals, most dated 1995 and later.

JSTOR: The Scholarly Journal Archive: Music titles

Provides searchable full-text of more than 300 core journals in the liberal arts, beginning with the first volume of each journal; current issues (within the past 3 to 5 years) are not included.

Electronic Journals List (from IU)

A listing of music journals, magazines, newspapers and perodicals.

Databases

Music Index Online

Indexes content from more than 700 international music periodicals.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

International bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines

International Index to Music Periodicals

Draws its current content from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries with over 60 Full Text titles. IIMP Full Text also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

RIPM

International index to ninetheenth-century music periodicals.

RISM

Repertoire International des Sources Musicales = International Inventory of Musical Sources = Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik.

Beethoven Bibliography Database
Cantus: Database for Gregorian Chants
CAIRSS Institute for Music Research
Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology