Bakalar Music Library
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ONLINE DATABASES AND REFERENCE WORKS
*Please note: these online resources are only accessible on Longy computers or through Longy’s wireless network—except for Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, they are not available off-campus.
For more about the library’s periodical holdings and a list of journal titles, click here.
Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)
Online access to audio recordings from New World Records and Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI), along with the complete and original liner notes and essays. Other contributing labels include: Albany, Innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, and Deep Listening.
Doctoral Dissertation in Musicology - Online
An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexes primarily non-music journals; includes many with full text
Grove Music Online
“…[a] compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002), as well as numerous subsequent updates and emendations.”
IPA Source*
IPA transcriptions and literal translations of songs and arias
JSTOR Music Collection
Complete digitized back runs of 32 scholarly music journals
Naxos Music Library
“…the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online, offering over 550,000 tracks of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly.”
New York Times (1995- )
Orchestra Music Online
Index to information on more than 6,700 orchestral works, including instrumentation, duration and availability.
Oxford Companion to Music
Oxford Dictionary of Music
RILM: Music Literature Abstracts 1967-
Abstracts and citations drawn from articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews and more.
RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals 1800-1950
Indexes music periodicals from the end of the 18th century until 1950.
RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources Series A/II
A comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600 (to about 1850).
The Music Index
International index to 690 music periodicals, currently covering the period 1975-2005. Note: Citations from the period 1949-1973 are in print only; these volumes are located in Reference (call number: Ref. ML118 .M84).
World Book Online
General encyclopedia.
WorldCat via OCLC FirstSearch
Catalog of books, scores, and other media in libraries worldwide.
