Listed below are a few major reference sources for music available to faculty and students. The first three sections are paid resources to which the B-W libraries subscribe. The fourth section (Other music sites) lists freely available resources, over which we have no control. For a more comprehensive listing of databases available to B-W students and faculty, please see http://www.bw.edu/academics/libraries/ritter/data/.
The links to resources now work both on and off campus. If you are off campus, you will be asked to login with your name and your barcode. Your barcode should be your campus ID (a seven-digit number). If you have trouble with this, please contact the staff at Ritter or Jones Library.
Streaming audio services
- DRAM (New)
- An online audio service consisting of the catalogs of New World Records, Composers Recordings Inc., and several other labels. An excellent source for, among other things, American music and contemporary music.
- Naxos Music Library
- An online audio service featuring 100,000 tracks of streaming audio. Mostly classical, some world music and jazz.
- Classical Music Library
- A classical music online listening service that features 50,000 tracks, with recordings licensed from many labels, including EMI, Hyperion, Hänssler and Forlane.
Music reference
- Grove Music Online
- Grove is the premier English-language encyclopedia of music. It includes signed articles, works lists, and bibliographies on 20,000 composers, locations, periods, instruments, terms, and other subjects.
- RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (provided by OhioLINK)
- An attempt to index all significant music literature in the years covered (1969 to the present), RILM provides a citation and usually an abstract for thousands of books, articles, dissertations, and other writings.
- Music Index Online
- A subject-author guide to music periodical literature. Covering over 700 periodicals in all styles and genres of music, the Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music, musicians, and the music industry.
- Music Online Reference (New)
- A suite of four databases comprising the Garland Encyclopedia, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, other reference books, and a library of classical scores.
- African-American Music Reference
- Classical Music Reference Library
- Classical Scores Library
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
- African-American Music Reference
- IPA Source
- A service that provdes translations and phonetic (IPA) transcriptions of thousands of songs and arias.
Non-music reference (see also http://www.bw.edu/academics/libraries/ritter/data/)
- Academic Search Complete
- A very large, multi-disciplinary periodical index with lots of full text available. Valuable for music research, particularly because of its currency, which is much better than either Music Index or RILM Abstracts.
- Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses)
- Provides indexing and abstracting for over two million dissertations and theses. Most of the documents can be ordered from ProQuest, and many include a free 24-page preview.
- WorldCat
- An enormous database of library holdings in all formats from around the world. Very helpful for locating items that are not in OhioLINK.
Other (free) music sites
ASCAP Song Database
www.ascap.com/ace/ACE.html
BMI Song Search
http://repertoire.bmi.com/startpage.asp
The Lied and Art Songs Texts Page
www.recmusic.org/lieder
Song Index at the University of Tennessee
http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/songdb/
SchubertLine
http://www.schubertline.co.uk/
Center for History of Music Theory and Literature
http://www.music.indiana.edu/chmtl/
Cleveland Orchestra Program Notes Index
www.cim.edu/libProgNotes.php
If you have any feedback regarding the resources listed here, or suggestions for Web sites to be added, please send email to jonesml@bw.edu
275 Eastland Rd.