Music: Music Databases A-Z

ARMA is an extensive collection of music and articles designed expressly for music history and theory courses. There are more than 600 pieces of music (over 7,000 pages) from antiquity through the romantic era.

Resources that chronicle the history and culture of the African American experience through music.

Combines Oxford University Press scholarly reference works in one online resource focusing on the lives and events shaping African American and African history and culture.

Streaming music from Americans of diverse origins and all walks of life, from America's past and present.

Contains over 210,000 pages of contemporary music online by the most creative, original and innovative composers of the past few decades offering a wide catalogue and setting up a powerful circulation platform addressed to instrumentalists, ensembles, orchestras, composers, musicologists, conservatories, universities and festivals throughout the world.

Index to biographical entries in diverse reference sources for 5 million people from all countries and time periods.

Content includes: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World; 170 volumes of the widely acclaimed 33 1/3 and 33 1/3 Global book series, providing in depth analysis of influential albums across diverse musical eras, by artists ranging from Caetano Veloso to Public Enemy; an expanding range of scholarly books from Bloomsbury’s popular music studies list, comprising edited volumes, biographies, and historical overviews; an illustrated Timeline of Popular Music back to 1900; an interactive World Map enables users to navigate to books and articles covering a particular country or region that is most relevant to their work; and artist pages including curated related content, and biographical information on hundreds of artists and musicians.

Streaming video of classical music performances by leading orchestras, chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Streaming audio with a supplementary reference database, enabling patrons to listen while simultaneously searching and browsing the Classical reference database. Send-to-mobile functionality.

Brings together essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music.

Music Online: Classical Scores Library encompasses more than one million pages of classical scores for teaching and study. Includes a mix of public domain, previously unpublished, and in-copyright works from all major classical music genres and time periods. The CMU Libraries has access to Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, and Volume IV.

Harvard Dictionary of Music & Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

CSI Digital is the robust and innovative online home for the nationally award-winning Cincinnati Song Initiative. This exclusive hub comprises recordings of performances that took place live, as well as original content produced for digital consumption. Explore CSI Mainstage Concerts, Beyond the Song Webinars, Composer Interviews, and the Complete Concert Archives.

Streaming video of influential performers and companies of the 20th century.

Provides singers with a comprehensive set of tools for the study and application of lyric diction. Includes phonetic (IPA) transcriptions; translations in English, French, German; text readings by native speakers who are opera coaches or singers; video tutorials and lessons; podcast; and full review courses.

Historical and current video performances of the Berlin Philharmonic. Set up your free account when using a library computer or the VPN. You can use it off campus afterwards but will need to re-authenticate on the VPN every 30 days to keep your account affiliated with CMU.

DRAM Contains American music represented by the New World Records and CRI label(s), which merged in 2007. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists,
students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. DRAM also includes more than 4,000 albums' worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 42 independent labels and archives with new content being continuously added.

The electrothèque web app allows you to listen to selected works culled from the empreintes DIGITALes catalogue and its composers. Founded in 1990, empreintes DIGITALes is considered the reference label in electroacoustics, acousmatics and musique concrète. electrothèque is accessible on mobile devices (iOS, Android, etc.), tablets, on laptops as well as good old desktop computers. The music featured on this site is available for online streaming purposes only. Downloading or saving are not allowed.

Central resource for articles and documents on all aspects of education. Contains citations, abstracts, and some full text. Database Guide

IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.

Articles in important academic journals from all disciplines (latest few years not available); also eBooks from leading academic publishers, as well as some images.

This is the online version of the CD Sheet Music and Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library CD-ROMs. The music is selected from out-of-copyright standard editions from publishers such as Breitkopf and Hartel, C.F. Peters, G. Schirmer, Carl Fischer, G. Ricordi, Durand and many others. The editorial staff for CD Sheet Music has chosen the best edition available for each work.

Offers filmed concerts performed by today's greatest names in classical music, archive movies, inspiring documentaries on performers and composers, educational programs, and master classes.

Biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine with links to CMU holdings and interlibrary loan request form.

Provides unlimited access to more than 450 extraordinary Met performances.

Covers every aspect of classical and popular music. In addition to full-text journals, it includes reviews of performances as well as reviews of sound recordings and videos. There are 862 indexed and abstracted journals (366 of them are peer-reviewed).

Allows cross-searching of audio, video, scores and full text reference content from all Alexander Street Press Music databases to which Carnegie Mellon subscribes.

A collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s through local and international news, reviews, editorials, sheet music, and advertisements.

Music Online: Reference brings together a variety of essential music reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Bibliographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music.

The business source for the performing arts.

Streaming recordings for genres such as Classical, Jazz, Blues, Nostalgia, World, Contemporary Instrumental, Chinese, Pop and Rock, Gospel, Spoken Word, and Relaxation. iPhone and Android apps available.

Streaming music from the artists and collections of Fantasy Records.

nkoda is a sheet music subscription service that can be accessed via app on your phone, tablet, or desktop giving you direct and unlimited access to the publishers’ catalogues in app. They are partnered with over 100 publishers but some of the big ones are Barenreiter, Boosey & Hawkes, Chester, Faber Music, Novello, and Ricordi. Features include: mark-up tools, sharing of scores and playlists, uploading PDF formatted files, store and access offline, and hands-free page turner. Explore their eclectic collection of instrumental and vocal music - from Mozart, Brahms, and Stravinsky to Pink Floyd and Radiohead. Scores are not downloadable.

Streaming video of performances, interviews, and documentaries that cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century.

An illustrated, encyclopedic work containing 45,000 articles with bibliographies, written by more than 6,800 international scholars on all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day.

Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002), The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music (2006).

Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 395 international periodicals, plus full text for more than 160 of the indexed journals. The database covers a broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry - including dance, drama, theater, stagecraft, opera, performance art, film, television and more. Coverage: 1864 - current. Database Guide

Principal Chairs (Flute) is an exciting new online resource for the study of orchestral repertoire – an online excerpt book with fantastic extras! They provide free sheet music and orchestral audio recordings (thanks to Naxos) of the most prominent and important solos in the repertoire along with educational, informative and inspiring pre-recorded video lessons by leading international orchestral artists.

Current humanities and social science journals from a variety of university presses.

Mega-database that searches many interdisciplinary databases together - journals, newspapers, magazines; also industry reports.

Citations and abstracts for scholarly articles, books, commentaries, conference proceedings, dissertations, festschriften, reviews, internet resources, motion pictures, sound recordings and technical drawings of musical instruments are all covered by RILM. Concert reviews, recording notes, and pedagogical manuals are indexed if they are of scholarly interest. Covers 1967-present.

The largest database of music journalism online containing over 40,000 articles, interviews, and reviews on acts from ABBA to Zappa. The archive draws on numerous publications from Creem and Trouser Press to Rolling Stone, and from New Musical Express and Melody Maker to MOJO. It is fully searchable by artist, genre, writer or keyword (allowing search by album or single title, date etc.). Rock’s Backpages also features a library of over 600 audio interviews.

Index for scholarly articles in the Arts & Humanities, Science, and Social Sciences. A good database to find out how many times an article has been cited and find other relevant articles to your topic

Contains over 48 million records, covering all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world.