RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text is a comprehensive bibliography of writings about music featuring citations, abstracts and indexes. It covers nearly one and a half million publications from the early 19th century to the present on traditional music, popular music, jazz, classical music, and related subjects, enhanced with the full text of over 260 periodicals. New titles are being added annually.

A library of more than 2 million tracks (175,000 CDs) of streaming music from the catalog of Naxos, a leading classical music label, and selected additional labels. While the majority of the tracks are classical, the Naxos Music Library also includes jazz, blues, world and Chinese music. Also provided are text resources including overviews of music history, program notes for recordings, and the complete libretti of operas available in the Naxos Music Library. Click to view instructions for use on mobile devices.

Full-text versions of peer-reviewed journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, as well as thousands of ebooks, with emphasis on humanities and social sciences. We subscribe to the "Standard Collection" of journals (which is over 300 titles, but not all of the journals on the site) and have purchased a small number of ebooks. You may want to limit your search to "Only content I have full access to."

Covers hymns of the Judeo-Christian tradition, from many countries and languages, historical and contemporary. Includes articles on individual hymns, authors, hymnals, related organizations, tunes, composers, as well as general topic articles. The interface includes a basic keyword searching function, with results able to be limited by era, place, tradition, role of a person, and other facets. You can browse by category, such as literary topics, Hymns in Latin, specific place, specific era, traditions, and role of a person. You can also browse alphabetically by the title of the article.

Provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. Includes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.

Time Period: 1850-1920
Location: North America
A collection of digital images of 3042 pieces of sheet music published in the United States between 1850 and 1920, from the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.

The IMSLP is a project for the creation of a virtual library of public domain music scores, based on the wiki principle, but it is also more than that. Users can exchange musical ideas through the site, submit their own compositions, or listen to other people's compositions, which makes it an ever-growing musical community, by the music lovers for the music lovers. Contains more than 37,000 scores.

Traces the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. Includes text, notes, bibliographies, further readings, illustrations, musical examples, and links to relevant content in Grove Music Online. Has search and browse options for easy navigation.

Includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, with a combined search interface.

A collection of reviews, interviews, and features on rock music artists from a variety of music magazines, including Rolling Stone, Creem, Mojo, Guitar World, The Independent, NME, etc. Includes material from 1960 to present; updated weekly.