LibGuides: Music: Get Started

General Info

Oxford Dictionary of Music
Offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras.
Oxford Music Online
The gateway to Grove Music Online, with access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Entries on composers include a complete list of their works and accompanying bibliographies.
Oxford History of Western Music
Offers a narrative account of the evolution of Western classical music by musicologist, Richard Taruskin. Includes notes, bibliographies and links to further readings.
All Music Guide
A comprehensive guide to artists and their best works. Includes timelines, essays, reviews, and a music dictionary. Genres include rock, country, jazz, blues, world, folk, rap, reggae, gospel, new age, and many sub-genres.

Hit Songs Deconstructed
Humanities International Complete
This resource provides full text of journals, books and other published humanities sources from around the world. It includes all data from Humanities International Index plus unique full-text content, much of which is not available in other databases.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides access to the highest-quality academic journals, books, and primary sources in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Music Online

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Updated weekly as songs enter the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, this robust, fully interactive database houses proprietary data for the compositional characteristics of those songs, as well as related industry data for songwriters, artists, producers and record labels.
Classical Scores Library
Opera in Video

National Jukebox from Library of Congress
National Jukebox provide streaming historical sound recordings, the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress and other libraries and archives, available to the public free of charge.