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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature 
Coverage: 1969-present. Comprehensive database of scholarly articles, essays, proceedings, books, reviews, and more; covering musicology, ethnomusicoloy, performance practice, theory, pedagogy, musical instruments. For reviews, Refine Search by Document Type Review of ...
Academic Search Premier 
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Music Index - Call Number: Case Reference ML118 .M84 
Coverage: 1975-2001. More coverage of popular music than RILM. For book review, look up subject heading Book Reviews.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Coverage: 1989-present. Articles and other materials on archaeology, architecture, art, Asian studies, classics, dance, film, TV & radio, folklore, history, language & linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, theater, theology & religious studies. PART OF WEB OF SCIENCE, click on `Change Limits` to select Arts & Humanities only.
Humanities & Social Science Index Retrospective
Coverage: 1907-1984. Allows search of a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Periodicals Archive Online
Coverage: 1770-1990. A database of millions of articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
GramoFile
More than 250,000 reviews of classical sound recordings. Search by composer, orchestra, title, conductor, record label, catalog number, reviewer, or keyword, and view results sorted by date. Free, but requires registration. Be aware of email "news" check boxes.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
2008 ed. Containing 27,000 entries and over 6,000 new entries, the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music features a broad musical scope covering popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. It offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.
It may also be searched as part of Oxford Music Online.
Oxford Music Online
Coverage: current. Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, with over 500 musical examples available in sound as well as notated examples.
Bach Bibliography
Maintained by a Research Fellow at Queens University, Belfast, UK. A bibliography of more than 14,000 items, including new and forthcoming works.
Beethoven Bibliography
A research project of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, this database lists books and articles about Beethoven, and early editions of his scores. The database is searched using the same software as Colgate's online catalog.
Bibliography of Black Music - Call Number: Case Reference ML128.B45 D44
A bibliography of articles, books, essays covering black musicians and musical culture, including history, minstrelsy, spirituals, ragtime, musical theater, concert music blues, gospel, jazz, instruments, performance, theory, pedagogy, ethnomusicology, acculturation, and music as it relates to other disciplines; covering North and South America, Africa, and the Caribbean. Published in 1981.
Guide to the musical arts: an analytical index of articles and illustrations, 1953-1956 - Call Number: Case Reference ML113 .B37
Bibliography of articles about music published between 1953-56
Guide to the performing arts - Call Number: Case Reference ML118 .G8
1963-68 supplement to Guide to the Musical Arts.
Music criticism: an annotated guide to the literature - Call Number: Case Reference ML113 .B37
Criticism and analysis from books and periodical articles of solo compositions, opera, vocal music, orchestral music, concertos, chamber music, symphonies. Arranged by genre, then by composer; composer and composition title indexes. Published in 1957
Musical Borrowing
An ongoing project of the Indiana University School of Music, this bibliography of published materials and theses covers borrowing, transcription, variations, quotation, cantus firmus technique, paraphrase, imitation/parody, modeling, allusion, and other ways to rework existing music, from troping and organum to collage and electronic manipulation
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Maintained by the Indiana University School of Music, is the online version of the catalog of the American Musicological Society. Contains citations for completed and in-progress dissertations from mid-1995 (covering all time periods). Also lists citations for earlier dissertations from the General, Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance categories. Can browse by time period or search by keyword.
Music Research: a handbook - Call Number: Case Reference ML113.S28 2009
A guide to doing research in music and a bibliography of library research tools.
AllMusic
News, reviews, and essays about a variety of genres. Entrance into the sections of the site in the upper right hand corner, or select a genre from the gray bar directly below the allmusic logo.
Internet Resources for Music Scholars
List of more than 300 scholarly music resources on the Internet. Maintained by Harvard's Music Library
Worldwide Internet Music Resources
Librarians at the Indiana University Music Library maintain this comprehensive site, which is a mix of popular and scholarly materials.
Music Resources
A comprehensive site, maintained at Finland's Sibelius Academy
Music Selection Resources on the WWW
A music selector for the King County Library System has compiled this listing of major and independent label listings, reviews, music publishers, library catalogs, and exemplary general, jazz, roots, classical, and world music reference sites. There are also resource guides on selection tools for the library music buyer.
Open Directory - Arts:Music
Part of the Open Directory Project, which claims to be the largest human edited directory of the web.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
Coverage: 3rd-17th centuries. An evolving database of the full text of the entire corpus of Latin music theory written during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
J.S. Bach Home Page
This comprehensive site includes pointers to listings of Bach's complete works, MIDI files of his recordings, and a calendar of upcoming Bach events.
Hector Berlioz website
Maintained by M. Austin and M. Tayeb (British academics), includes biographical info, text and libretti, photos, bibliographies, and more. Can search entire site (Google).
Fryderyk Chopin: Life, Works, Traditions
Maintained by the Frederic Chopin Society of Warsaw, this is a work in progress. Significant information already available.
Aaron Copland Collection
From the Library of Congress American Memory Collections, the multiformat Aaron Copland Collection spans the years 1910 to 1990 and includes approximately 400,000 items documenting the multifaceted life of an extraordinary person who was composer, performer, teacher, writer, conductor, commentator, and administrator. It comprises both manuscript and printed music, personal and business correspondence, diaries, writings, scrapbooks, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, awards, books, sound recordings, and motion pictures.
The first release of the online collection contains approximately 1,000 items that yield a total of about 5,000 images. These items date from 1899 to 1981, with most from the 1920s through the 1950s, and were selected from Copland's music sketches, correspondence, writings, and photographs.
FGHandel.org
Jointly maintained by Brad Leissa and musicologist David Vickers, the site contains a discography, reviews of recent recordings, a bibliography of Handel scholarships, and a list of scholarly work in progress
International Mozarteum Foundation (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum)
Founded in Salzburg in 1880, the Foundation has 3 main areas of concern: organization of concerts, the Mozart museums, and academic research. The website includes a catalog of Mozart research, concert ticket information, and more. The Foundation also maintains the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe / Digital Mozart Edition online.
Digital Mozart Edition (Newe Mozart-Ausgabe) 
Operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute, contains musical text of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe. Must click on use agreement to enter.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
Coverage: 1969-present. Comprehensive database of scholarly articles, essays, proceedings, books, reviews, and more; covering musicology, ethnomusicoloy, performance practice, theory, pedagogy, musical instruments. For reviews, Refine Search by Document Type Review of ...
Book Review Index Online
Coverage: 1965-present. Indexes reviews in journals, general interest magazines, and scholarly journals.
Book Review Digest - Call Number: Case Ref Z1219.C95
Coverage: 1905-- . Indexes and excerpts reviews of books written in English and published in the U.S. and Canada. More selective than Book Review Index. Arranged alphabetically by author; subject and title indexes. Search year of publication and the year following publication.
Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Web of Science
Coverage: 1989-present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humantities Citation Index. Multidisciplinary coverage.
Note: WOS searches Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index simultaneously by default.
Readers` Guide Abstracts & RG Retrospective
Coverage: 1890-present. Extends coverage of Readers` Guide Abstracts to reflect the history of 20th century America.
Music Index - Call Number: Case Reference ML118 .M84
Coverage: 1975-2001. More coverage of popular music than RILM. For book review, look up subject heading Book Reviews.
Classical Net
Nice starting spot for the neophyte. Contains lists of basic repertoire, CDs, reviews, lists of books & scores, and links to other classical music sites.
Electronic Music
List of links maintained by the Music Library at Indiana University.
Electronic Music Interactive
A "music theory primer for electronic music" developed at the University of Oregon New Media Center.
Music Resources: Computer Music, MIDI, etc.
List of sites maintained by the Sibelius Academy
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists: Computer & Electronic Music
List of sites maintained by the American Musicological Society
Fractal Music Lab
Contains examples of fractal music, downloadable software you can use to compose original fractal music, and information and activities designed to help you better understand fractals and their possible roles in music composition. Information is brief at best.
Red Hot Jazz Archives
Short essays and biographies of early jazz. Most valuable for more than 1,000 recordings in streaming audio format.
All Music Guide: Jazz
Discography, biography, and reviews of albums. Music ratings and reviews are done by a coordinated system of free-lance writers and music experts from around the globe. Albums for each music artist are rated against their own best work and not against other artists in their genre. The result is a rating scheme that allows users to see at a glance the best (and worst) albums for any particular artist. Must drill down through music genres and sub-genres to get to performers/composers, songs, and recordings.
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists: Jazz
List of sites maintained by the American Musicological Society
IJS Jazz Register
Call Number: CASE Microfiche Research ML156.4 .J3 R94
Catalog and index (by performer, title, composer, label name) to recordings in the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Guide filed with fiche. Produced quarterly, each edition was cumulative and superseded previous ed. July 1988 edition.
European Free Improvisation Pages
Begun in January 1995, EFIP was intended to be a comprehensive information resource for all aspects of the type of music known as European free improvisation. Particularly useful for European biographical information.
Internet Broadway Database
Searchable database created by the League of American Theatres and Producers' Research Dept. Provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics.
Rock Music Scholarship: an interdisciplinary bibliography - Call Number: Case Reference ML128.R6 G37 1995
List of articles and books about Rock Music. Published in 1995.
Literature of Rock 1974-78 - Call Number: Case Reference ML 128.R6 H6
Bibliography of books and articles about rock music.
Literature of Rock 1979-1983 - Call Number: Case Reference ML 128.R6 H62
Continuation of previous title.
All Music Guide: Rock
Discography, biography, and reviews of albums. Music ratings and reviews are done by a coordinated system of free-lance writers and music experts from around the globe. Albums for each music artist are rated against their own best work and not against other artists in their genre. The result is a rating scheme that allows users to see at a glance the best (and worst) albums for any particular artist. Must drill down through music genres and sub-genres to get to performers/composers, songs, and recordings.
History of Rock 'n' Roll
The Golden Decade 1954-1963.
Google Directory Arts > Music > Styles > R > Rock
List of links about rock - from concerts and events to genres
Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame
The official website with visitor info, exhibit highlights and articles (click on Backstage pass).
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