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

• 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
• African American Song – 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. Currently features 16,000 tracks of historical recordings.
  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
• American Song – American Song is a history database that contains 50,000 tracks and allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests and more.
  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

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.
• 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.
• PopScriptum
  Online journal published by the Forschungszentrum Populare Musik, Berlin -- Berlin, Germany : Humboldt-Universitat, 1992-.
• Directory of Open Access Journals
  A searchable database of e-journals on all subjects, it includes 24 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

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

Encyclopedias

Dictionaries

Dolmetsch Music Dictionary

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.