Music

A catalogue of 4,000 films (concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries and master classes) featuring centuries’ worth of music, from baroque to contemporary classical and jazz. It also stands out by streaming, every year, more than 150 live events from the world’s most prestigious concert halls, festivals and competitions.

Medici.tv is provided through a partnership with the Department of Music and the University of Mississippi Libraries.

Met Opera on Demand delivers instant and unlimited streaming of more than 575 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances.

A comprehensive collection of classical music including over 265,000 tracks as well as notes and biographical information.

A comprehensive collection of jazz music including over 22,600 tracks as well as notes and biographical information.

Contains the full-text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and the New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.

This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. The database currently includes over 1.3 million records, the majority from the most recent ten years of publication. Some complete journal runs are included, with indexing back to 1874. Covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

Comprehensive guide to publications on music from all over the world with records covering articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, reviews, and more.

Includes journal content, primary sources, images, and more across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Beginning August 1, 2024 Artstor's content is now accessed on JSTOR. 

The web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts along with a selection of sound recordings in Latin, Italian, German, and French.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

This database includes an AI powered tool. For more information see the ProQuest Research Assistant FAQ.

A cooperative catalog of books, web resources, and other material worldwide. Worldcat is also available through FirstSearch here.

This database includes an AI powered tool. For more information see WorldCat's blog.

Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind. Each volume provides a carefully structured series of specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage and indispensable reference material as well as absorbing reading matter.