Music: Music Resources

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A library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Contains over 6,066 texts including 1,092 aria texts.

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The world’s largest online classical music library. It offers streaming access to more than 73,000 CDs with over 1 million tracks. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month. In addition to classical music, the library offers jazz, classic pop, and rock music. The contents can be accessed from any computer and may be accessed via iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android apps.

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A database of Oxford music reference works, including Grove Music Online, the Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Contains biographies, subject essays, and dictionary terms.

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A leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Project Muse contains full text scholarly journals from more than 120 publishers.

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This database comprises the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.

RILM: Abstracts of Music Literature features a wealth of content from the early 1800s through the present with some content coverage extending back as far as the late 18th century. Updated monthly, the database includes coverage of relevant articles from more than 10,000 journals, many of which are not specifically devoted to music. RILM Abstracts of Music Literature also includes nearly 850,000 records with over 52,000 new records are added every year.

Indexing and abstracting for 280 education periodicals.