Journals and Periodical Searching
Searching the academic literature: going beyond RILM, Scholar OneSearch, and Google Scholar.
- Bibliographie des Muskikschrifttums (Bibliography of Music) (Opens in new window)An international and interactive bibliography of literature on music.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online (Opens in new window)An international database of dissertations in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
- Hofmeister (Opens in new window)An online, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 330,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period.
- RISM: Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) (Opens in new window)Online catalog of musical sources.
Individual journals and magazines
- EthnomusicologyJournal covering ethnomusicology for musicians, musicologists, folklorists, popular culture scholars, and cultural anthropologists.
- Ethnomusicology ForumFormerly known as the British Journal of Ethnomusicology, this journal is the academic, refereed journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology. It provides a dynamic forum for the presentation of new thinking in the field of ethnomusicology, defined broadly as the study of "people making music", and encompasses the study of all music, including Western art music and popular music.
Online Resources
- African Diaspora Music Project Search over 2000 pieces by Black composers. The first phase of the project is focused on art songs.
- Afrocentric Voices A site focusing on African American performers and composers and on the vocal music forms they influenced, especially opera, art songs and Negro spirituals composed for concert performance.
- Beyond Elijah Rock: The Non-Idiomatic Choral Music of Black Composers A spreadsheet of choral music outside the traditional idiomatic canon associated with black musicians (spirituals, gospel, jazz, hip-hop, etc.).
- Classical Net Features more than 9000 pages and 20,000+ images including more than 7200 CD, SACD, DVD, Blu-ray, Book and Concert reviews and over 5500 links to other classical music web sites.
- Golden Pages for Musicologists Provide announcements for forthcoming conferences in musicology and related disciplines, an archive of dissertation abstracts, links to music departments worldwide, and other links of interest to musicologists.
- Inclusive Early Music The Bibliography is a work in progress and benefits from users' feedback. Its main focus is the variety of contexts in which "Early Music" happened, with special attention to people who—because of race, gender, geographical origins, or social status—have been left out of the mainstream musicological narrative. The priority for the Inclusive Early Music Collective is on music before 1600, in order to keep the collection manageable and user-friendly. However, given the contingency of chronological divisions on place and musical tradition, sources from as late as about 1750 may be appropriate for inclusion."
- Institute for Composer Diversity The Institute for Composer Diversity is committed to the celebration, education, and advocacy of music created by composers from historically underrepresented genders, racial, ethnic, and cultural heritages, and sexual orientations as well as disabled composers.Research resources plus databases of composers and works searchable by genre, ensemble, and composers' demographic information.
- Jewish Choral Music Jewish Choral Music is a comprehensive resource center for anyone interested in discovering a repertoire that is rich, but relatively unknown. You will find a variety of styles: folkloristic, popular, and classical. Chronology spanning ancient chant, baroque motets and cantatas and oratorios, classic/romantic majestic synagogue music, twentieth-and twenty-first-century secular and sacred music.
- Music by Black Composers Educational resources for students and performers. Includes a directory of living composers
- New Music USA Online LibraryA searchable new American music database that provides access to digital scores, sound files and biographical information on composers.
- Theme Finder Provides an interface to the Humdrum thema command, which allows searching of databases containing musical themes or incipits.
Classical Recordings and Productions
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Additional web sources
- CHARM (Arts and Humanities Research Council) (Opens in new window)Database of historical classical sound recordings.
- Free Music ArchiveAn international interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
- Last.Fm.Recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to.
- MetOpera Database information on all Metropolitan Opera performances since 1883.
- New York Philharmonic: Leon Levy Digital Archives This Performance History database documents all known concerts of all of these organizations, amounting to more than 20,000 performances. The New York Philharmonic Leon Levy Digital Archives provides an additional interface for searching printed programs alongside other digitized items such as marked music scores, marked orchestral parts, business records, and photos.
- Operabase A powerful search tool allows you to search the details of over 65,000 opera performances since August 2013.
Music Theory Tools
- Musictheory.net (Opens in new window)Includes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
- teoría:Music Theory Web (Opens in new window)teoría.com is a web site dedicated to the study and practice of music theory.