LibGuides: Music Resources for Graduate Students: Secondary Sources

Encyclopedias

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
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.
MGG online : Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart This link opens in a new window
Music Online: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music This link opens in a new window
Search for encyclopedic entries on topics related to world music

Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML102.P66 C66 2003
ISBN: 9780826463210
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin (Editor)
ISBN: 9780195313734
Publication Date: 2006-11-20

Oxford Bibliographies: Music This link opens in a new window
Search peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies in music
Oxford Bibliographies: Anthropology This link opens in a new window
Search peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies in anthropology

IPA Source This link opens in a new window
Search for transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and performance reviews in music from 1800s to present
Music Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles on a wide variety of musical periods and styles
RIPM Jazz Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Search a full-text database of jazz journals and magazines.
RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles from 19th and early 20th-century music journals, containing many music reviews

Rock's Backpages This link opens in a new window
Search for articles and interviews related to rock music
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press
British Periodicals Collection I This link opens in a new window
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
Humanities Index This link opens in a new window
Search for articles from daily newspapers, weekly magazines and academic journals
American Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Search for scanned articles from magazines and journals from 1740 to 1900
Periodicals Index Online This link opens in a new window
Search for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences
Listener Historical Archive 1929-1991 This link opens in a new window
Search for articles from the Listener which ran from 1929 to 1991. This BBC publication reproduced (in print) radio and television broadcasts

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
Search dissertations and theses from colleges and universities around the world from 1743 to present. Full text theses from 1997-present