Journals and Periodical Searching
Searching the academic literature:
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts of articles on a global range of topics: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, instruments, voice, dance, music therapy.
- What this includes: Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, conference proceedings, reviews, and more. Covers 1967 - present.
- Bibliographie des Muskikschrifttums online( Bibliography of Musick online) An international and interactive bibliography of literature on music.
- Hofmeister 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.
Individual journals of interest
Online Resources
Searching the academic literature
- 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.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
- 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.
- MetOpera Database information on all Metropolitan Opera performances since 1883.
- 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.
- 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.
- Theme Finder Provides an interface to the Humdrum thema command, which allows searching of databases containing musical themes or incipits.
Classical Recordings
- CHARMSource for historical sound recordings.
- Free Music ArchiveAn international interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads.
- Great PerformancesPBS programs.
- Last.Fm.Recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to.
- YoutubeVideo sharing website.
Open Access Scores and Archival Material
- 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 This large database explores the 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.
- Digital Scores from the Collections of the Loeb Music Library(Harvard University)
- IMSLPAd-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.
- RISMOnline catalog of musical sources.
- 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)
Select Books
- Black Composers of the Classical Music Genre from the Eigthteenth Century to the Twenty-First Century (Dissertation) byISBN: 9798662468047Publication Date: 2020
The La Traviata affair : opera in the age of apartheid by Publication Date: 2018
Musicians from a Different Shore by
Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to study and establish careers, and Asian American families were enrolling toddlers in music classes. Against this historical backdrop, Yoshihara interviews Asian and Asian American musicians, such as Cho-Liang Lin, Margaret Leng Tan, Kent Nagano, who have taken various routes into classical music careers. They offer their views about the connections of race and culture and discuss whether the music is really as universal as many claim it to be. Their personal histories and Yoshihara's observations present a snapshot of today's dynamic and revived classical music scene.
ISBN: 9781592133345Publication Date: 2008-05-02- Music of the highest class : elitism and populism in antebellum Boston by "There is a fundamental duality in American musical culture between classical music and vernacular music: the classical canon of great musical works seems to be surrounded by an aura of respectability that gives it a special mystique. In this book Michael Broyles examines this duality from a social-historical perspective, tracing its origins to early nineteenth-century Boston and showing how specifically American forces gave it a different profile from similar developments in Europe.Publication Date: 1992
Music Theory Tools
- Musictheory.netIncludes introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, ear trainers, and books.
- teoría:Music Theory Webteoría.com is a web site dedicated to the study and practice of music theory.