Music

Lilly Music Library
Granoff Music Center
Room M030 (Lower Level)
20 Talbot Avenue
Tufts University
Medford, MA  02155
(617) 627-3594

Available Online Resources Include:

African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference, a resource under development, brings together reference texts, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Coverage includes blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

Grove Music Online (Search Help)
Widely used throughout the academic and professional community as the first resource to turn to for any research in music. Now includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed.). Grove Music Online is updated regularly, so the online content may differ from print versions.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples and includes the complete contents of the entire original set of 10 print volumes (over 9,200 pages), which has been the preeminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology since its first publication in 1997. Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study.

Music Index Online
[PRINT. Music References Indexes ML118 .M84 (annual bound cumulations)]
The online version of the venerable index to English-language and international periodical articles begun in 1949. The online version includes coverage since 1979. The Music Index provides citations only for popular and scholarly periodical articles, and some interdisciplinary journals (e.g. folklore, aesthetics, etc.). Controlled language subject headings.

IIMP Full Text: International Index to Music Periodicals, Full Text Edition How To Use
Although IIMP draws its current content from more than 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, only 60 titles are provided full text--the rest are citation/abstract only. Coverage for most titles begins ca. 1996, although IIMP has begun to include retrospective coverage for about 185 periodicals to its database, however, the subject indexing is not as detailed as it is for current content.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-)
The world's largest, continuously updated bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage including citations in over 202 languages from 5,200 journals drawn from an unusually wide range of scholarly sources, including articles, books, conference proceedings, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews and more.

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950)
An ongoing, international cooperative project to index historical journal literature focusing on nineteenth-century music and musical life. Over 425,500 annotated records provide unique access to historical periodicals of international significance from 15 countries. Subsets by publication title are being produced in print.
[PRINT. Music Reference Indexes ML5.R275 (various volumes)]

RISM International Inventory of Musical Sources
An international, non-profit joint venture which aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. RISM documents what exists and where it is stored. RISM Series A concerns the work of individual composers, RISM Series B concerns a variety of collective works, including works on music theory as well as printed and manuscript music. Among the different series of RISM only Series A/II: "Music manuscripts after 1600" is available online, covering more than 380,000 works by over 18,000 composers found in over 595 libraries and archives in 31 countries.

Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series
The only electronic database for finding individual pieces of music printed in the standard scholarly editions of monumental sets, collections, and composers' complete works, this important resource is comprised of a Bibliography Database (of over 9,000 citations), a Names Database (of around 20,000 names of composers, librettists, poets, and editors), and an Index Database (of 135,000 records, detailing not only composers and titles, but also opus and thematic catalog numbers, performing forces, formats, genres, and more).

Jazz Discography Online (TJD Online)
General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc.

Doctorial Dissertations in Musicology-Online. Bloomington ; Indiana University School of Music, 1995-Present.
The online successor to: Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology. Cecil Adkins and Alis Dickinson, editors. 7th North American (2nd International) ed. Jointly published by AMS and IMS in 1984; 1984-1995 update published in 1996.
[PRINT. Music Reference ML128 .M8 A4]

Electronic Journals

Periodicals are listed in the library catalog. Holdings in all formats are unified in one record, and most entries for journals held in electronic format contain a hyperlink to the source; searches in the web-based catalog enable one to follow these links directly. A complete list of electronic journals is on the Tisch homepage under Electronic Journals.

Some music journals are held in digital format as part of Project Muse or JSTOR. Although these databases include search engines for the journals they contain, the indexes listed above are the most comprehensive and authoritative sources for literature about music.

Streaming Audio Databases Licensed for the Tufts Community Include:

Naxos Music Library
The online streaming audio collection of the Naxos recording label -- the world's current leading producer of classical music. The equivalent of more than 5,500 compact discs representing over 2,500 composers, the Naxos Library offers streams of not only Classical music, but also selected works in Jazz, Folk, and World music, as well as useful educational content, such as recording liner notes, biographical and historical essays, opera synopses and libretti, a glossary and pronunciation guide.

Database of Recorded American Music
Currently an on-campus only resource, DRAM is a collection of sound recordings documenting American music largely ignored by the commercial recording companies. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition. Some biographical and role information are provided for artists.

Smithsonian Global Sound® is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides a variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. The database includes an array of more than 35,000 individual tracks of music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds.

Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label, fully searchable database of Classical music recordings, with a particular focus on contemporary music and women composers. Included are tens of thousands of licensed recordings, cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information.

African American Song documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. Features 12,000 tracks of historical recordings from the first half of the 20th century.

Internet Resources

All Music Guide

American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library (Library of Congress)

Archives of African American Music and Culture (Indiana University)

Chicago Jazz Archive

Music Library Association Copyright Information Homepage

Music Publishers Association

Necrology File (Gaylord Music Library, Washington University, St. Louis)

Neue Mozart-Ausgabe Digitized Version Offers the musical text and the critical commentaries of the entire Neue Mozart-Ausgabe.

Public Domain Information Project

Worldwide Internet Music Resources Compiled by the Indiana University Music Library.

Frédéric Louis Ritter Collection Website

 

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