Music: Online Resources

Oxford Music Online is the the gateway to Grove Music Online, with access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
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ProQuest's Music Periodicals Database -- formerly International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) -- offers access to over 425 international music periodicals, of which 140 are full text. While the majority of journal articles are from 1996 onward, this database also includes journal articles from as early as 1874. ProQuest's Music Periodicals Database covers the full spectrum of music, including music education, musicology, music theory, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, classical music, opera, jazz, pop culture, popular music forms, and composition.

Canadian Music Periodical Index is an index of articles from Canadian music periodicals. The database includes more than 37,000 entries on articles dating from the late-19th century to the present day. Canadian music journals, newsletters, and magazines are included, 200 of which are currently active and continue to be indexed.

JSTOR offers access to retrospective issues of selected core scholarly journals in many disciplines, including music. It includes full-text access to about 50 music journals, and partial or citation level access to many more.

IPA Source is the web’s largest collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. It includes more than 11,000 titles by more than 900 composers.

This subset of WorldCat indexes more than 8 million dissertations and theses. Many records provide a link to the full digital copy.

Naxos Music Library is the world’s largest online classical music library. It currently provides access to more than 131,000 CDs with more than 2,014,000 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to Naxos Music Library every month.
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The WIU Music Library has been archiving digitized recordings of recitals from the School of Music since the fall semester of 2013. Current recitals are added as they are received, and older recitals are in the process of being digitized and then added. The digitized recordings and their programs are available to current students and faculty through this archive. Users can search for recordings by title, performer, composer, or date.