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Oxford Music Online
Includes Grove Music Online
Oxford Dictionary of Music
Oxford Companion to Music
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG)
The premier German-language music encyclopedia. Google Translate tool available
Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Devoted to music research of all the world's peoples;
includes audio examples
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Concise biographies
Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
Instruments and their makers
Musical America
Current news and directories
Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres
Cross-index of data for over 41,000 opera and oratorio premieres
IPA Source
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Music Industry Data
International charting albums and singles under exclusive academic license from Billboard. Tutorials available.
Digital Resources for Musicology
Links to substantial open-access projects of use to musicians and musicologists. Maintained by CCARH.
Musiconn: für vernetzte Musikwissenschaft
Research portal for networked musicology (formerly ViFa Musik)
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