Research Guides: Music: All Music Databases A-Z

All Music Databases A-Z

American Music This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio streaming database includes songs across multiple genres by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys and covering songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
Berliner-Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall This link opens in a new window
Audio/visual streaming classical music concerts.
Cambridge Companions This link opens in a new window
Over 600 titles covering literature, classics, music, philosophy, religion, history, and culture.

Canadian Encyclopedia
2013 online successor to the print editions published in 1985 and 1988.

Canadian Music Periodical Index This link opens in a new window
(CMPI)
Index of articles from Canadian music periodicals.
cIRcle This link opens in a new window
University of British Columbia's digital portal for creative arts theses (creative writing; film; music; theatre - MFA and MMus only), beginning October 21, 2017 (UBC-V) and March 1, 2018 (UBC-O).
Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio streaming database of classical music from Medieval to 21st century.
Classical Music Reference Library This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Reference materials spanning the history of Western classical music; includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Classical Scores Library (4 Volumes) This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Authoritative source for digital scores of the classical canon including lesser-known contemporary works.
Contemporary World Music This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio streaming database covering musical genres from every continent: reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing, jazz, Indian classical, and more.
Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Primary and secondary source materials serving music research.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology On-line This link opens in a new window
(DDM)
Index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995.
DRAM This link opens in a new window
(Database of Recorded American Music)
Audio streaming classical music; includes original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives.
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada This link opens in a new window
Now embedded in "The Canadian Encyclopedia." Describes the full breadth and depth of Canadian musical culture.

Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis (EVIA)
Repository of ethnographic video recordings supporting scholars in the ethnographic disciplines including ethnomusicology.

Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Vols. 1 & II (Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Two-volume collection containing classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries, and shorts from every continent.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
10 volumes devoted to world music: (v.1) Africa; (v.2), South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean; (v.3) the United States and Canada; (v.4) Southeast Asia; (v.5) South Asia; (v.6) the Middle East; (v.7) East Asia; (v.8) Europe; (v.9) Australia and Pacific Islands; (V.10) glossary, a bibliography of literature and recordings by region, and essays by prominent ethnomusicologists.
HathiTrust This link opens in a new window
Digital Library Full text
Digital preservation repository holding scores and monographs.
Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series (IPM) This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO)
E-index for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions.
IPA Source This link opens in a new window
Alternate title: International Phonetic Alphabet
Phonetic alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Jazz Music Library This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio streaming jazz.
JSTOR Collection This link opens in a new window
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
LGBTQ+ Source This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) Full text
140+ historically significant LGBTQ+ journals, magazines, regional newspapers, and books.
LibraryMusicSource This link opens in a new window
Online database of classical sheet music in full score and parts.
Maison ONA This link opens in a new window
Contemporary music e-scores.

Medici TV
The largest audio-visual catalogue of classical music with 1,200 programs (concerts, archives, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, educational films and artist profiles).

Music and Performing Arts This link opens in a new window
Online portal providing access to all Alexander Street Press music and performing arts databases. The gateway allows for cross-searching as well as entry to individual products.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) Some full text
Comprehensive subject-author guide to music periodical literature.
Print: ML118. M84 v.1(1949)-v.52(2000)

Music Periodicals Database
Formerly: International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
Some full text
Indexing and abstracts for 445 international music periodicals covering music education, performance, ethnomusicology, theory, popular music, composition.

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Audio streaming world's largest online classical music library.
Naxos Music Library - Jazz (NMLJ) This link opens in a new window
Audio streaming jazz legends and contemporary jazz.
Naxos Music Library World This link opens in a new window
Audio streaming includes complete Smithsonian Folkways, holdings from Sony, Arc and Naxos World.
nkoda - Digital Sheet Music This link opens in a new window
Digital sheet music library accessed via app.
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Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio/visual streaming performances from Baroque to 20th century.
Oxford bibliographies online This link opens in a new window
Annotated bibliography and high-level encyclopedia identifying the best scholarship across a wide variety of subjects including music.
Oxford Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Alternate title: OHO Music module
Specially-commissioned essays referencing further reading for scholars, advanced students, and practitioners in the subject area of music.

Oxford History of Western Music Online
Richard Taruskin’s multi-volume survey of the traditions of Western music.

Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Arts & Humanities
Includes Oxford University Press (OUP) publications in music.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Alternate title: Grove Music Online
Foremost English-language scholarly encyclopedia of music and musicians. Holds extensive articles and bibliographies written by subject experts and comprehensive lists of works for select composers. Incorporates access to New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition), Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, Grove Dictionary of American Music, Grove Dictionary of Music Instruments, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Includes Dictionary Plus Music, Oxford Companion to Music, Dictionary of Opera Characters, Dictionary of Music, and more.
Oxford Research Encylopedias This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed, article-style writings authored and edited by leading scholars in a variety of subject areas including music.
Popular Music Library This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio streaming database presenting pop genres from around the world: alternative, country, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks, and more.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Alternate title: PQDT Global
An extensive collection of 3.8 million graduate works, with 1.7 million in full text.
Recent Researches in Music Online (RRIMO) This link opens in a new window
Access to all titles in the seven Recent Researches in Music series: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, 19th/20th centuries, American, and Oral Traditions.
Legacy Collection: Additional access to titles published before 2018 in the seven RRIMO series and the series Collegium Musicum: Yale University.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature - Full Text This link opens in a new window
Alternate title: Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
(EBSCO)
Foundational support for scholarly music research. A comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950 This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO)
International, annotated database offering detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture 1800 -1950.
RISM - Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 (RISM-OPAC) This link opens in a new window
Alternate titles: International inventory of musical sources = Répertoire international des sources musicales = Internationales Quellenlexikon der Musik.
Annotated index to music manuscripts produced after 1600; links to some manuscript scans.
Print: ML105 .46 Check holdings record.
Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest This link opens in a new window
Primary sources for the study of politics, youth culture, music, fashion and their interrelation, 1950-1975.
Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
(Alexander Street Press Music Online)
Audio streaming encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
Traités français sur la musique (TFM) This link opens in a new window
Full text
Database of writings in the French language on music.
WorldCat This link opens in a new window
Search thousands of libraries from one catalog. Order Interlibrary Loan requests easily through WorldCat.