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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
WorldCat combines the library catalogs of most academic and major public libraries in the U.S. and Canada, as well as some major libraries in Europe and Asia.

General Databases & Reference Works

These broad-based reference works & databases also include entries on music, with articles on composers, famous performers, and significant compositions.

Reference

Britannica Online Academic Edition
Credo Reference Academic Core
Credo Reference is a digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips. Containing a selection from nearly 400 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers, Credo Reference is the ideal place to start any research.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (now Gale Ebooks)
Explore this database of encyclopedias and reference sources within the Gale eBooks platform. For multidisciplinary research.
SAGE Knowledge
Over 5000 eBook and eReference titles purchased in perpetuity. Collection includes:
- SAGE Knowledge Complete 2018 Backlist Collection comprised of 5,139 titles
- SAGE Knowledge Complete Books and Reference 2019 Frontlist Collection comprised of 247 titles
- SAGE Knowledge Complete Books and Reference 2020 Frontlist Collection comprised of 200-250 titles

Databases

EBSCO Databases (Music)
This link searches multiple databases, selected based on their relevance to music research topics. It includes the Music Index as well as databases focused on history, humanities, social science, and literature. It will return much broader and less-focused results than a search in the Music Index alone. To remove, add, or change databases, select "Choose Databases" above the search boxes.

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Databases included:
ATLA Religion
Communication & Mass Media Complete
eBook Collection
eBook Academic Collection
eBook Community College Collection
eBook History Collection
eBook Public Library Collection
eBook Religion Collection
eBook University Press Collection
Historical Abstracts
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Humanities Full Text
MLA Directory of Periodicals
MLA International Bibliography
Music Index
OmniFile Full Text Mega
Philosopher’s Index
Readers’ Guide Full Text Mega
Readers’ Guide Retrospective
Social Sciences Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text

American Doctoral Dissertations
Citations for 153,000+ theses and dissertations on multiple subjects.
Cambridge Journals Online
A search interface for all journals published by Cambridge University Press.
Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Articles and reviews from 500+ journals on the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

1842-present
Citations to articles and reviews from over 500 journals dealing with the the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700)
JSTOR
Extensive scans of journals and books from numerous disciplines.
Oxford Journals
Access to journals published by Oxford University Press.
Project Muse
Journals in literature and criticism, history, cultural studies, and related fields.

Full text database of over 300 scholarly periodicals in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Access is also available in Electronic Collections Online via First Search.

Musicology Resources

Oxford Music Online
Search Grove Music Online here. This is the best place to begin your research, as articles include lists of editions as well as bibliographies of modern research. The site also offers access to The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Classical Music Reference Library
Includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
Music Index
This database searches over 600 international music periodicals, with a focus on current scholarship in both classical and popular music.

Citations to 640 international music periodicals. Covers classical and popular music. Includes book and record review, first performances, obituaries
RISM
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM), or the International Inventory of Musical Sources, documents extant musical sources worldwide, including manuscripts, printed music, writings on music theory, and libretti. RISM publications are divided into the following series:
A: Inventories alphabetically by composer
B: Bibliographies of materials organized by topic
C: Directories of music research libraries.

Internet Site Varies

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
The American Musicological Society hosts this international database of dissertations and theses in musicology, both completed and in progress. Note that full-text access is not necessarily available.

Digitized Music Books & Manuscripts

Digital Image Library of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
A portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts dating from ca. 800 to 1550. Includes catalog records, bibliographies, digital images when available.
Early Music Online
This collection consists of 327 volumes of sixteenth-century music digitized from the holdings of the British Library, and hosted by Royal Holloway, University of London.
Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML), at Indiana University, endeavors to provide free, searchable texts for all musicological works in Latin from late antiquity through the seventeenth century.
Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum (TMI)
Centered on the writings Italy's most important music theorists, Pietro Aaron and Gioseffo Zarlino, this site includes full searchable texts of all their works as well those of an additional sixteen theorists from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
Provides over 200,000 free scores that are in the public domain.

More Digitized Books & Manuscripts

Broad-based sites and search aggregators:

Hathi Trust
HathiTrust is a repository of digitized books and other materials contributed by libraries from around the world; those materials no longer under copyright (published before 1924, in most cases) can be viewed in full.
Europeana Collections
The Europeana website aggregates search results from numerous digitization projects at libraries, museums, and archives across Europe, with links to the digitized copies of early printed books, manuscripts, scores, and recordings.

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The Europeana website has several collections which limit the type of materials searched, including one focused on Music. Use this option to narrow your search results as needed.
Internet Archive: Books
Internet Archive describes itself as a "non-profit digital library offering millions of free books, movies, & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the Wayback Machine."

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This link has been customized to take you to a search page that includes only books which are freely available in their entirety.

Significant collections from specific institutions:

British Library Digitised Manuscripts
This site provides access to digital copies of manuscripts, archival materials, and early printed works from the holdings of the British Library.
Parker Library On the Web
Almost all of the manuscripts held by the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, have been digitized and made available through this site run by Stanford University; includes extensive descriptions and bibliographies for each manuscript.

Jane Conrad Apple Rare Book Room

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Music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Eras (Music 245): Home

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Music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Eras (Music 245): Home

Find Materials at Blough-Weis Library

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General Databases & Reference Works

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Digitized Music Books & Manuscripts

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