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Music

This page provides access to recommended resources for research in music.

Finding Articles [help]

RILM Music Abstracts - Index of articles from music journals as well as books, bibliographies, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, videos, and other materials

Humanities Abstracts - Index of articles and other materials published in humanities-related journals

Web of Science - Citation index for all disciplines (1977-present)

Finding Books

HopeCAT - Materials in the collections of Hope College Libraries and Western Theological Seminary
MeLCat - Materials in participating Michigan libraries
WorldCat - Materials in U.S. and international libraries

Online Reference Sources

DRAM - Scholarly resource of recordings, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers Recordings, and other labels
Grove Music Online - Full-text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed., 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed., 2002)
Naxos Music Library - Online collection of classical jazz, world, and folk music from Naxos and Marco Polo recording catalogs
Oxford Reference Online - Performing Arts
including: Oxford Companion to Music (2002), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera (1996), and others
VoxBook - Electronic collection of recordings, with scores or texts, of classical solo songs and arias, plus commentaries and biographies of composers and performers