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Music
This page contains links to: basic sources of music information; indexes to articles and dissertations; full text of articles and dissertations; online music
Classical Music Library -- Includes 17,000 tracks of classical music recordings for listening, browsing, and searching. Also includes program notes, composer biographies, and images cross-referenced to the recordings.
International Index to Music Periodicals -– Full text online index to more than half a million articles, including abstracts and some full text from 1874 to current. Covers a broad scope of research from performance, theory and composition to ethnomusicology.
Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music - dedicated to studying all aspects of music from this era, including performance practice and theater of the 17th century.
Music Index Online -- Historiographic, ethnographic and musicological subjects are covered in this index of journal articles.
The New York Public Library. Music Division -- One of the world's preeminent music collections. Chronicles the art of music in all its diversity - opera, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, musical comedy, orchestral, rock, and pop music
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II Online The most authoritative, English-language encyclopedia of music published to date. Comprehensive coverage of music. Includes bibliographies and definitions of terms.
Naxos Music Library --Access over 80,000 tracks (5,500 CDs), representing the entire Naxos, Marco Polo, and Da Capo catalogs, and other licensed independent labels. Naxos Music Library includes classical music and six other genres world music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature -All aspects of music and musicology including dance · Abstracts of journal articles, proceedings, books, dissertations.
RISM aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections.
Dissertations in Music:
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology--Online--DDM-Online presents an index to dissertations-in-progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995, arranged under the traditional broad categories. In addition, DDM-Online includes all the records previously published in the earlier printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology.
Archive of Dissertation Abstracts In Music --This archive is maintained by Geoffrey Chew mainly on the basis of material supplied by Andrew Dell'Antonio. The abstracts relate both to completed dissertations and to those in progress.
The University of Arizona Electronic Theses and Dissertations-- The Electronic Theses and Dissertations database of UA dissertations and selected theses. Coverage include theses and dissertations (2005 - ).
Dissertation Abstracts --Full text (Proquest)--Indexes dissertations written at over 1,000 North American and foreign universities. Includes some master's theses. Full text is available for most dissertations from 1998 on. Foreign dissertations indexed go back to 1637 and U.S. dissertations from 1861-.