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Grove Music Online (Oxford Music Online) This link opens in a new window
Particularly useful for searching by composer, geographic area or name of performer/band.
Music Index This link opens in a new window
The Music Index is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature featuring digitized content from 1970 to present. Formerly The Music Index Online provided by Harmonie Park Press, this database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals. The comprehensive coverage of the music field and every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music makes Music Index an invaluable resource for both novice and scholar.
America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
United States and Canadian history, 1450 to the present.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
World history from 1450 to the present (excluding United States and Canada).
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
An international journal of abstracts in English of current scholarly literature on music in all languages including books, articles, commentaries, prefaces to editions, dissertations, and reviews

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library is the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database. All these can be accessible from computers in academic libraries, home or office. Naxos Music Library and all of its contents are owned by Naxos Digital Ltd., part of the Hong Kong-based Naxos Group of Companies. Naxos Online Libraries YouTube Channel
Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
All year long you can enjoy free live concerts, operas, ballets with the greatest artists of our time on our audio-visual platform. These live events are then available for a limited time on our website. Since its opening in 2008, medici.tv has built an international reputation by broadcasting over 200 classical music events and by connecting a community of aficionados from over 180 countries.