Music Resources at Pacific

• Brass Music
• Jazz Studies
• Keyboard
• Music Business & Management
• Music Education
• Music History
• Music Theory & Composition
• Music Therapy
• Strings
• Vocal Music
• Woodwinds

• Music Online – A combined search platform that enables you to search across several of our streaming audio databases. African American Music and Smithsonian Global Sound will be added to this platform during the summer of 2009.
  Pacific users only
• American Song –Music from America's past, including songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more. The music represents many different genres, including country, folk, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, shape note singing, doo-wop, Motown, R&B, soul, funk, and others.
  Pacific users only
• Classical Music Library – Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels).
  Pacific users only
• Contemporary World Music – Contemporary World Music presents contemporary and traditional world music recordings from many labels throughout the world. The database contains 50,000 tracks of reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music - Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
  Pacific users only
• Jazz Music Library – A database of jazz music from the early years to the present. Includes works licensed from many record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, and more.
  Pacific users only
  
• Smithsonian Global Sound – Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms.
  Pacific users only

In the Library

• Finding Scores in Pacificat - A guide to finding music in the Library.

On the Web

• Music Library Association Sheet Music Collections
  A list of sheet music collections throughout the U.S., some available online.
• Choral Public Domain Library
  Database of 3,550 choral scores, mostly in the public domain. Particularly useful for mainstream pieces from the Renaissance through the Romantic era. Includes some translations.
• International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
  A collaborative online library of music scores available for download. The scores included are either in the public domain, or covered by a creative commons license.
• Mutopia
  This volunteer project aims to make copyright-free musical scores available. Download as .pdf, PostScript, or Lilypond .ly files.
• Public Domain Music
  MIDI files, and text files of their lyrics, created by Benjamin Robert Tubb, based on original sheet music sources of the 19th century.
• Variations
  Music scores from the Cook Music Library at Indiana University.

Viewing & Purchasing Scores

• Schubertline - Online printing of lieder, songs, and arias which may be viewed, played, and printed in any key using Sibelius Scorch, the free software which lets you obtain sheet music from the Internet. Most printed scores cost about $2.00 or you can buy a subscription for unlimited access.
• Theodore Front Musical Literature – Good vendor for study and performance scores as well as music-related books.  They have listings of everything published since 1994, and much that was published earlier.
• T.I.S. Music Catalog - Online catalog of a vendor specializing in vocal and keyboard music.

In the Library

• International Index of Music Periodicals (IIMP)
  Database of articles published in music and related periodicals containing over 160,000 citations to more than 350 journals. Abstracts are included from 1996 onward. The database covers current periodicals as well as an ever-growing backfile which will include the entire publishing run of the journals.  Pacific users only.
• RILM Music Literature
  RILM (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) includes abstracts and citations from books, journals, newsletters, conference proceedings, catalogs, dissertations, and reports of governments and international bodies from 1967 to the present.   Pacific users only.
• Academic Search Complete
   Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, full text database designed for academic institutions. The database includes full text for 1800 publications as well as images, for nearly every academic field of study. Pacific users only.
• JSTOR
  Full-text archive of scholarly journals covering a broad range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, and sciences.  Includes every back issue for 32 music journals.
• Project Muse
  Full-text archive of scholarly journals from the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

On the Web

Some listed here are scholarly, some are popular, and all are freely available on the web.

• Critical Musicology
  "A Transdisciplinary Online Journal" hosted by the School of Music at the Univeristy of Leeds
• ECHO: A Music-Centered Journal
  Los Angeles, CA: University of California, Los Angeles, 1999-. An interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal created and edited by graduate students in the UCLA Department of Musicology (some articles require Quicktime and Flash plugins).
• Electronic Musician
  (full-text articles from current issue and back issues to September 1999)
• Journal for Seventeenth Century Music
  Cambridge, MA: Society for Seventeenth Century Music, Harvard University, 1995-.
• MIX Magazine
  (full-text content of past issues from September 2000)
• NewMusicBox
  Web magazine of the American Music Center. Includes audio clips of featured composers.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  A searchable database of e-journals on all subjects, it includes 30 music journals.
• Speech, Music and Hearing
  A publication of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, this multidisciplinary journal covers speech communication, speech technology, speech coding, music acoustics, and auditory perception.

Detailed Information on Composers, Performers & Historical Periods

• Grove Music Online
  Complete full-text access to New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition), plus articles from other Grove music dictionaries.  Pacific users only.
  • Physical copies of Grove Music Online materials are also available:
    • Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
      Reference - ML100 .N48 2001
    • Grove Dictionary of Opera
      Reference - ML102 .O6 N5 1992
    • Grove Dictionary of Jazz
      Reference - ML102 .J3 N48 1998
• Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
  Reference - ML105 .N38 1994

Dictionaries

• Oxford Dictionary of Music (via Oxford Reference Online)
  Also available in print: Reference - ML100 .K35 1994
• The Harvard Dictionary of Music
  Reference - ML100 N53 2003
• Dolmetsch Music Dictionary

Key General Overviews

• The Oxford Companion to Jazz
  Reference - ML3507 .O94 2000
• A History of Western Music
  Reference - ML160 .G87 1988
• Heritage of Music
  Reference - ML160 .H5271989

Key General Overviews

• “Music” in the On-Line Reference Book for Medieval Studies: A basic historical overview of medieval music for the non-specialist.  Includes a bibliography and links to related topics.
• AEIOU Project – Music:  An overview of historical periods, forms, styles, instruments and composers, with an emphasis on Austrian music and composers, from the University of Graz and the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Culture.  Includes audio clips.

If the Pacific Library doesn't have the score, set of parts, or recording you are seeking, you can usually get it from another library, through a service called Interlibrary Loan.

Requests are free and the average turnaround time is two weeks.

• Interlibrary Loan: This service allows you to borrow items from other libraries if they are not available through the Pacific Library.
  • When requesting any type of music score or recording, select the "Request Book or Other Media" link and fill in the form.
• Worldcat: This catalog lets you search the collections of many libraries to locate the item you need. You can copy & paste item information from this catalog into the Interlibrary Loan request form.