Music Resources for Graduate Students: Secondary Sources

In addition to the encyclopedia entries, works lists where you can find composer scholarly editions, and bibliographies, you can uncover further helpful tools under Research Resources in Grove, such as comprehensive listings of manuscript sources, periodicals, libraries, sound archives, and private collections. These resources are somewhat buried on the Oxford Music Online main page, but can be found under the menu choice Tools and Resources>>Subject Guides and Research Resources>>Research Resources.

Search for encyclopedic entries on topics related to world music

Search peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies in music

Search peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies in anthropology

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

Search for articles, books, dissertations, and performance reviews in music from 1800s to present

Search for journal articles on a wide variety of musical periods and styles

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

Search for articles and interviews related to rock music

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 journal and magazine articles from British publications from the late 17th century to the early 20th century in a wide variety of disciplines

Search for articles from daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals

Search for scanned articles from magazines and journals from 1740 to 1900

Search for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences

Search for articles from the Listener which ran from 1929 to 1991. This BBC publication reproduced (in print) radio and television broadcasts

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