Research by Subject: Music
Oxford Music Online 
Encyclopedic coverage of musical subjects of all kinds including composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, individual works, instruments and notations, venues, and genres. Electronic version of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. Cross-searchable with the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The electronic version of Garland's Encyclopedia of World Music uses a cultural approach to its focus on the music of all the world's peoples. Each volume is arranged topically, regionally, or by ethnic group, and complemented by an extensive index. Includes hundreds of audio examples.
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The electronic version of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music is a biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present, plus popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Cross-searchable with Oxford Music Online.
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Music of India
Traces the story of Indian music through 2,000 years of history. Entries cover forms of music from classical to film-originated, as well as dance styles, technical terms, instruments, and biographies of vocalists, musicologists, saint poets, gurus, composers, and instrumentalists. The work spans not only all regions of India, but also covers the music of the Subcontinent, including Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
LIBRARY CATALOG - BOOKS & MORE
HELIN Library Catalog
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World Library Catalog
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Music Index (online)
Indexes material relevant to classical and popular music and musicology. Includes articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries; 1973 - present.
note: earlier coverage available in print edition
Music Index (in print)
Call Number: Reference Indexes
Indexes material relevant to classical and popular music and musicology. Includes articles, book and record reviews, first performances, and obituaries; 1949 - 1972.
JSTOR
Full text backfiles of over 1,200 core scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes over 60 current titles, including all University of Chicago Press journals. For all other titles, JSTOR does not contain the most recent 1-7 years of content. Many of these titles are continued in Project Muse or in the Library's print and/or electronic subscriptions. Use the yellow arrow, then the ArticleLinker button to link to content on an external site or check Journal Finder for complete holdings information.
Project Muse
Full text collection of over 500 scholarly journals from the Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses. Earlier years may be in JSTOR. Check Journal Finder for complete holdings information.
Literature of Rock
Call Number: REF ML128. R6 H6/H62/H63
Fantastic rock-specific article index. 3 volumes. Covers 1954 - 1990.
ROJARO (Rock, Jazz, Roots Index) 
Searchable key to articles, discographies, live and record-reviews published in the music press worldwide including fanzines from January 1992 to present.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
note: configure Library Links to see if your item is available through Wallace Library
Humanities Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Indexes journals in the disciplines of archaeology and classical studies, art, folklore, history, language and literature, literary criticism, music and performing arts, philosophy, and religion; includes over 310 full text journals; 1984 - present.
New York Review of Books
Essays and reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance, and film. Browseable by year or author; searchable by year, reviewed work, author or contributor. 1963 - present.
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) Historical Archive 1902-2006
Includes the original image of more than 300,000 reviews, letters, and poems. Fully searchable, and browseable by date, book title, author, contributor, illustrator, editor or translator.
Stories of the Operas
Brief dramatic summaries of some of the most famous operas, listed by title and by composer. From the Metropolitan Opera.
Internet Broadway Database
IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
Guide to Musical Theatre
Full of Amazon links and frames, but it's also the most comprehensive musical theatre show synopsis site I've found. Also has a handy genre index if you want to find a show with "parts for middle-aged performers" or for "predominantly female casts" or "that can be done on a small budget", etc.
National Geographic World Music
Extensive overviews of hundreds of genres of world music, including descriptions, histories, highlighted artists, discographies, and sample tracks from National Geographic.
Idealist
Whether you read it as a list of ideas, or a home for idealistic individuals, this site is a fantastic clearinghouse for non-profit resources - organizations, events, jobs, etc. - including outreach arts and music organizations.
Metal Studies - A Bibliography
A fantastic (and continually updated) bibliography of Heavy Metal Studies. Created and maintained by Keith Kahn-Harris.
Schubertline
Instant printed sheet music of lieder, songs and arias - view, play and print in any key.
note: contact Library Information Desk (x3700) for access
Petrucci Music Library
Also known as the International Music Score Library Project, this is a repository of downloadable and printable public domain music scores.
IPA Source
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
HELIN Catalog - Sound Recordings
Search Wheaton's and all of HELIN's Sound Recording Collection:
note: Wheaton material can be requested at the Circulation Desk. Other HELIN material can be requested and sent to Wheaton, if it is marked as 'available'.
WorldCat Local - Sound Recordings
Search beyond Wheaton and HELIN to the Sound Recording Collections of thousands of libraries in WorldCat:
note: Many libraries do not lend their audio recordings, but some do. There is no easy way to be certain, but if you submit a request, we will try to borrow the material for you.
Ethnographic Video Online
Covers a wide range of themes, including: language and culture, body language, food and foraging, economic systems, social stratification and status, political organizations, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.
Grooveshark
Pandora and Last.fm create custom internet radio stations based on individual artists and your preferences, but they don't allow you to select individual songs. In addition to creating preference-based playlists, Grooveshark lets you choose and play specific tracks, embed songs or playlists into other sites (see the sidebar widget to the right), and more. While still a bit rough around the edges, and the legality of its business model is not yet assured, Grooveshark attempts to be a free, legal, and simple way to stream directly or embed millions of audio tracks.
YouTube - Music Category
Everyone's favorite video sharing site has a wealth of current videos, historical footage of live concerts and interviews, cover versions, and more. It's not always clear where a video is from, or even exactly what it is, so be careful when using it in your research or presentation.
WhoSampled
It's hard to think about music without thinking about how music is influenced by, quotes or samples, or covers other pieces of music. This site allows users to contribute to a database that reveals, highlights, and discusses these connections in a variety of genres of music. Most entries include streaming audio/video of the track being discussed. Very neat.
