Resources by Subject: Music

A collection of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the history and culture of the African American experience through music.

Brings together more than 40,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database.

The first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Provides over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultures of music around the globe. (Access is limited to 5 simultaneous users.)

The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 5340 texts including 902 aria texts.

Access to Music Online: African American Music Reference, Classical Music Reference Library, Classical Scores Library, and the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Through the Music Online portal, these resources can be cross-searched.

Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

A unique collaboration between libraries and publishers, providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.

Includes approximately one million pages of full-text content from more than 200 periodicals from 50 countries in 40 languages, published from the early 20th century to the present.

Multi-disciplinary database that covers magazines, scholarly journals, and newspapers and is a good place to start for any subject.

Access general interest magazines and key serials in a single resource. Best for general research.

Full image backfiles for over 1000 core academic journals and thousands of electronic books with full text and cross disciplinary searching capabilities.

The largest multidisciplinary database with over 12,665 titles, with over 9,745 titles in full-tex