Music

Best Database Choices for Music Databases

University of Virginia Library

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Charlottesville VA 22904-4113

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All Music Databases

African American Song  

Features some 16,000 tracks of historical recordings from Document Records, covering jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives.

Classical Music Library   

Online listening for more than 20,000 classical music recordings. Search or browse for works by composer, performer, instrument, period, and more.

Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)   

Online listening for more than 1500 albums from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed.   

Colin Larkin's encyclopedia includes information about popular music, jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musical and world music from 1900 to the present.

Grove Music Online  

Includes the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, with regular updates.

Index to Printed Music, Collections & Series

Search for individual pieces of music in printed collections and scholarly editions.

International Index to Music Periodicals   1874-present

Indexes scholarly and popular music publications with abstracts and some full text.

International Index to the Performing Arts

Lists articles from scholarly and popular periodicals covering dance, film, television, theater, opera, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling and more. Some full text.

Music in Print

Search for music currently in print by genre, instrumentation or using the Master Index.

Naxos Music Library

Large collection of classical and world music recordings from the Naxos and Marco Polo labels, with program notes.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature   1967-present

Broad international coverage indexing journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings, Festschriften, and more covering all areas of music.

Smithsonian Global Sound   

Recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels.