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Background Information
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowEmphasis on classical music: encyclopedia-type articles about music history, instruments, technology, and people. At its core is the esteemed Grove Music Online, formerly Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowOrganized geographically, this is a good starting point for ethnomusicology and comparative music studies.
- Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new windowHow to do research: project planning and strategies, methods, timelines, ethics, and more.*Recommended:SAGE Encyclopedia of Communication Research Methods (Opens in new window).
Library collections: books, journal articles, streaming files
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Use Scholar OneSearch (Opens in new window) to search the Northeastern library's books, articles, audio and video from one search box.
Tip: You can paste the title, author, or DOI of a work into the search box to find a specific citation.
Key Music Resources (Books and Journal Articles)
- Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowHundreds of thousands of pages of classical music scores. Pages can be printed and annotated.
- Directory of Open Access Journals in Music (Opens in new window)Open access journals are available for free public use and re-use. Search topics or explore publishing opportunities
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowUS and UK trade magazines (1880-2000) covering the vaudeville era to the internet era. Includes Billboard, Variety, Broadcasting, Melody Maker and much more
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowOffers citations and abstracts of articles on international subjects including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance and music therapy. Scholarly journals included. Covers 1969 – the present.
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new windowFacsimiles of 105 full text American jazz journals published between 1914 and 2006. Significant journals include, among others, Cadence, Down Beat, Mississippi Rag, and Record Changer. Images, advertisements included.
Scores and Sheet Music
- Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University) A repository of materials covering a range of African American musical idioms and cultural expressions from the post-World War II era. The collections include many genres, including classical.
- Bach Digital Scores as well as constantly updated research findings on Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers in his family.
- Chopin Early Editions(University of Chicago)
- Choral Public Domain Library A collection of thousands of choral scores, all of which can be downloaded royalty-free.
- Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowHundreds of thousands of pages of classical music scores. Pages can be printed and annotated.
- Digital Scores from the Collections of the Loeb Music Library(Harvard University)
- IMSLP (Opens in new window)Ad-supported and crowd-sourced library of musical scores and sheet music.
- International Music Score Library Project A community-built library of public domain sheet music. Extensive collection of original scores scanned to PDF.
- Juilliard Manuscript Collection Browsable resource presenting digitized versions of 138 original holograph manuscript sources held at the Juilliard Library.
- Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia This tool provides information about the Library of Congress' unsurpassed collections of scores, sheet music, audio recordings, films, photographs, and other materials.
- Musical Scores(Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music)
- New Mozart Edition The digitized version offers the musical text and the critical commentary of the entire New Mozart Edition. Some restrictions apply to the reproduction of images of source materials, particularly in the supplement to the edition.
- Sheet Music Consortium A group of libraries working toward the goal of building an open collection of digitized sheet music using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
- UK and Ireland Concert Programs Provides descriptions of concert program collections held by leading libraries, archives and museums in the UK and Ireland, thereby improving access to a vital source of information about musical life from the eighteenth century to the present day.
- VARIATIONS Prototype: Online Musical Scores(Indiana University)