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This guide will help you find resources to support your research, locate music scores, and experience performances from around the world. ♬

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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Integrated music resource including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Provides links to related sites, including sound archives and illustrations.
Music Online This link opens in a new window
Allows one to search across all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press, including: African American Music Reference, American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, World Music Online, Opera in Video and more.
Music Online: American Music This link opens in a new window
Songs covering all eras of American history from the Revolutionary War to twentieth-century anti-war protests; extensive liner notes included
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Provides access to international publications on music and other performance arts, such as dance. Includes a variety of publication types including journal articles, ethnographic recordings, and reviews. Relevant for research on performance studies, education, literature, and more.

New Books in Music

Living ethnomusicology : paths and practices

Being true to works of music

Annunciations : Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century

Mahler and His World

The Cambridge history of music criticism

Making media : production, practices, and professions

Remembering popular music's past : memory - heritage - history

The Italian Madrigal, Volume 2

German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900-1940

Featured Journals

Jazz Times JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970.
American Music Teacher Provides articles, reviews and regular columns that inform, educate and challenge music teachers and foster excellence in the music teaching profession.
Journal of the American Musicological Society One of the premier journals in musicology, Journal of the American Musicological Society publishes scholarship from a broad array of musical inquiry: from historical musicology, critical theory, music analysis, iconography and organology, to pedagogy, performance practice, aesthetics and hermeneutics, ethnomusicology, gender and sexuality, popular music, and cultural studies. --from journal homepage

Open Access Databases

AfricaBib This link opens in a new window A collection of Africana social science titles consisting of 2 bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature and African Women's literature.
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BASE This link opens in a new window A search engine for academic web resources - includes journals, institutional repositories, digital collections etc. Many open access resources.
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Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window DPLA materials come from America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of these are freely available and include; photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, etc.
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Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window Access to quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals covering a range of topics and languages.
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Dissertations and Thesis - Open Access (Proquest) This link opens in a new window Provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge.
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Knowledge Unlatched This link opens in a new window Open access to scholarly ebooks primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
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Open Book Publishers This link opens in a new window Find peer-reviewed open access books in a variety of subjects.
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