LibGuides: Music: Music Articles

Music Databases

Research for articles or listen to music in some of these specialized databases.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Access to Grove Music Online and other Oxford music reference resources.

Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 60,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 46,000 CDs with more than 653,000 tracks, standard and rare repertoire.
Citizen DJ
This resource also links out to the Library of Congress's National Jukebox collection. LOC online collections include both primary and secondary materials about U.S. Music History.

JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Includes scholarship published in more than 2,500 of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. JSTOR is an archival database providing complete runs of back issues. Issues published in the last 3-5 years are not usually available.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
A bibliography of writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over 840,000 publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects. Coverage begins in 1967 and extends to the present.