The Robinson Music Library provides access to many significant online resources related to the study of music. A comprehensive list of research databases across all disciplines is maintained by the Kelvin Smith Library. Each of the resources below allows you to click on "link" to go straight to the web site, or to click "about" to learn more about the research tool.
- Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Oxford Music Online):
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The 4th edition, by Colin Larkin, includes a broad spectrum of articles about popular music since 1900. Articles include bibliographies and discographies for profiled artists, Updated quarterly. Available through Oxford Music Online. Note: To limit search results to a specific resource within Oxford Music Online, deselect other resources listed under the initial search box.
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- Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online): link | about
Grove Music Online has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001. It includes the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001), as well as all subsequent updates and emendations. Including 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world. Note: To limit search results to a specific resource within Oxford Music Online, deselect other resources listed under the initial search box.
In 2008, Grove Music Online moved to Oxford Music Online. It maintains its editorial leadership and will be expanded in the coming years to include other Grove dictionaries, including Early Music, AmeriGrove, and Musical Instruments. For more information on the new Grove Music Online, see Oxford Music Online.
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- IPA Source: link | about
IPA source offers a collection of transcriptions and literal translations of opera aria, art song, and Latin liturgical texts. The resource features mp3 recordings of selected texts and a guide to resources for the vocal performer. IPA Source may be browsed by composer, poet, and title. One may also browse by opera or Latin text. Translations may be printed or saved to a local disk.
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- JSTOR: link | about
Provides electronic, full text access to the back files of approximately 670 scholarly periodicals in a variety of disciplines in humanities, arts and sciences, social sciences, and business, including 56 music-related journals. Coverage begins with the first issue of the journal. A moving wall determines the latest issue available. The moving wall represents the time period between the last issue available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal. It is specified by publishers in their license agreements with JSTOR, and generally ranges from three to five years. See E-Journal Portal to access the full-text for more current years.
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- Music in Print Online (e-musicquest): link | about
Searchable database of printed music that currently is “in print” (published and available for purchase). One may search the entire database or select genre/category to search (choral music, woodwind, piano, orchestral, classical vocal etc.).
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- Music Index: link | about
Indexes the contents of 850 music periodicals from 1978 to the present. Provides links to full-text content in JSTOR. Also indexes dissertations in music. Indexes a broad spectrum of music periodicals, including Strad, Opera News, 19th century music, Kurt Weill Newseltter etc.
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- Musical America: link | about
Releases daily news reports and reviews related to performing arts around the world. Music industry directory. Categories include artists, managers, orchestras, opera companies, concert series, festivals, music schools and departments, record companies, services, products, etc.
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- Orchestral Music Online: link | about
Online version of David Daniels' Orchestral Music: A Handbook (Scarecrow Press). Provides information about the instrumentation of over 4500 compositions. For each composition, this resource details information about the composer, date of composition, duration, names of individual movements, publishers and other related information.
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- Oxford Companion to Music (Oxford Music Online): link | about
Provides definitions and discussions of a wide range of musical topics in a readable style. Edited by Alison Latham, the 2002 edition of the Oxford Companion to Music is accessible via Oxford Music Online. Note: To limit search results to a specific resource within Oxford Music Online, deselect other resources listed under the initial search box.
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- Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford Music Online): link | about
The 2nd edition, this dictionary includes definitions of musical subjects as well as biographical entries for composers, conductors, scholars and performers. Note: To limit search results to a specific resource within Oxford Music Online, deselect other resources listed under the initial search box.
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- Oxford Music Online: link | about
Integrated music reference resource that includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, The Oxford Companion to Music, and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
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- RILM Abstracts of Music: link | about
Comprehensive international guide to writings about music. Covers articles from more than 5,200 journals, books, conference proceedings, dissertations, reviews, and catalogs in over 100 languages. Provides direct links to full-text articles found in EBSCO datases. 1967- present.
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- WorldCAT: link | about
Catalog containing more than 57 million records describing books and other items owned by libraries around the world. Materials covered are books, manuscripts, websites and Internet resources, maps, computer programs, musical scores, films and slides, newspapers journals and magazines, sound recordings, videotapes. Each record contains information on which libraries own the item. Updated daily. Covers earliest print materials to the present.
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