ITALIC: immersion in the arts: living in culture: Music
This guide lists a selection of online research sources in support of ITALIC, created Spring 2020
Resources for music, music history and world music
- Oxford music onlineIncludes Grove Music Online (a great starting point for your research), The Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
- The Garland encyclopedia of world musicA comprehensive look at the folk and traditional musics of the entire European continent. It explores such topics as musical archaeology and migrations, provides extensive coverage of music instrument classification and includes a survey of museum collections of instruments. Special essays about European music history include an ethnomusicological study of Western classical music.
- RILM abstracts of music literature (Full Text)Search for articles, bibliographies, book reviews, discographies, and more. Articles link to full text where available.
- Music industry dataA single search of international charting albums and singles under exclusive academic licence from Billboard, the Official Charts Company. Sophisticated tools allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and contrast musical trends and interactions at the touch of a button. Listen to audio samples for each track and album quickly and easily.
- DiscogsA crowd-sourced website with a deep representation of recorded music.
More guides: stream music - access digital scores - see more music databases
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Subjects: Art, Arts, Basic research, Dance, Film and media studies, Humanities, Music, Theater and drama