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Articles: Journals or Newspapers (1)

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature

  RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. Publications originate from 151 countries and are in 214 languages. There are currently over 550,000 records in RILM on traditional music, popular music, and classical music. Coverage of all document types begins in 1967. Coverage of Conference Proceedings goes back to 1835. Coverage: 1967-.

Encyclopedias, Reference (1)

• Oxford Music Online

  Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.

Multimedia (5)

• American Song

  This streaming music database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Includes songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.

• Classical Music Library

  Licensed streaming classical music from multiple labels. Includes contemporary music and women composers.

• DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)

  Streaming access to CD-quality audio, complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. The primary focus is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace.

• Opera in Video

  Streaming video of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Multiple performances and stagings of the major operas, from Baroque to the 20th century, allow for analysis of stage design, vocal techniques, roles, and musical interpretation across time periods, opera houses, and conductors.

• Smithsonian Global Sound

  Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University and material collected on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Primary Sources--Documents & Manuscripts (1)

• RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600

  Series A/II of the RISM project. Documents music manuscripts, printed music, works on music theory, and libretti, written after 1600, stored in libraries and archives in 31 countries. Includes bibliographic description, music incipit, provenance, and holding library. Coverage: 1600-.