Music Databases: Getting Started

Core music encyclopedia, includes the important Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Important German language encyclopedia. Includes comprehensive bibliographies and works lists as well as onboard Google translate tool.

Search for encyclopedic entries on topics related to world music

Search encyclopedic entries related to Western classical music.

Search encyclopedia and dictionary entries on wide range of academic disciplines

Search peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies in music

Search dissertations and theses from colleges and universities around the world from 1743 to present. Full text theses from 1997-present

Search for musicology dissertations

Excellent source for scholarly articles on music topics, with good international coverage.

Coverage includes scholarly articles as well as music magazines.

Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.

Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press

Search for articles and interviews related to rock music

This Archive aims to preserve the personal / official websites belonging to notable 20th century composers.

Search a collection of historic field recordings from around the world, including supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata.

Search a full-text database of jazz journals and magazines.

Search for journal articles from 19th and early 20th-century music journals, containing many music reviews

Includes digital copies of musical works printed between 1473 and 1700 in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America

Search for records for music manuscripts, printed music, libretti, and treatises held in music libraries, archives, churches, and other institutions around the world. This is an open access database.

Search the archive of the Daily Telegraph, a leading London newspaper.

Covers aspects of theater production design from the 17th century to the present.

Find scores for individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions, series and sets from ancient Greece to the present.

Search for transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts

An online thematic catalogue of all compositions attributed to Girolamo Frescobaldi (Ferrara, 1583 – Rome, 1643), and a database of the early sources, modern and facsimile editions, and literature.