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| Oxford Music Online |
Includes Grove Music Online |
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| Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) |
The premier German-language music encyclopedia. Google Translate tool available |
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| Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music |
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology |
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| Garland Encyclopedia of World Music | Devoted to music research of all the world's peoples; includes audio examples |
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| Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | Concise biographies | |
| Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments | Instruments and their makers | |
| Musical America | Current news and directories | |
| Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres | Cross-index of data for over 41,000 opera and oratorio premieres | |
| IPA Source | International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. | |
| Music Industry Data | International charting albums and singles under exclusive academic licence from Billboard. Tutorials available. | |
| Digital Resources for Musicology | Links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists. Maintained by CCARH. | |
| Research portal for networked musicology (formerly ViFa Musik) | ||
Discographies |
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| Bielefelder Kataloge Klassik | Classical | |
| The Jazz Discography | Jazz | Help |
| J-Disc |
Jazz | |
| Discography of American Historical Recordings | Multiple genres | Help |
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Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM) |
Multiple genres | |
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Periodical literature |
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| Indexes articles, reviews, obituaries. Bulk coverage 1996-present | ||
| RILM | Indexes and full text articles, reviews, commentary, dissertations. 1967-present | Video intro |
| RILM Abstracts with Full Text | ||
| Music Index | Indexes and full text articles, reviews, obituaries, dissertations. 1973-present | |
| RIPM | Indexes and full text articles published ca. 1800-1950 | Help |
| RIPM Jazz Periodicals |
Indexes and full text articles for 105 jazz journals, covering the period from 1914 to 2006 |
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| Rock's Back Pages |
The online library of pop writing. The ultimate archive of music journalism. |
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| Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive |
Core trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. |
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| Bibliographie des Musikschriftums |
International and interactive bibliography of literature on music |
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Indexes to printed music and manuscripts |
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| RISM | Historical manuscripts | Help |
| Index to Printed Music | Monuments, critical editions | |
| Notnaia Letopsis | Russian music publications | |
| Hofmeister XIX | 19th century music published in German-speaking countries | Help |