Research Guides: Music: Start Here

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Welcome to the Music research guide! Use this resource to find articles, books, scores, recordings, and more.

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Good Places to Start

Music Index This link opens in a new window
Broad range of indexed subjects covering musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. From EBSCO.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos is a leading classical music label. The database offers access to over 75,000 tracks of classical, jazz, folk, and world music online.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Cross-search several music encyclopedias and dictionaries including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Our online subscription does not include content from The Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Index to scholarly international sources on music and related subjects; includes articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, and more.

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