Music
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Use this guide as a starting point to find information for your assignments. Discover the best keywords and databases to use for your topic by asking a librarian for a Subject Search.- Key databases
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Music collections at UNE
- Web sites and Internet resources
Key databases
Oxford Music Online Full Text
Oxford Music Online includes the full-text of Grove Music Online, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Please logout when finished so other users can login. Guided Tour
Naxos Music Library
The Naxos Music Library includes the online equivalent of over 55,000 CDs and 791,000 individual tracks. Please logout before leaving the Naxos site.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
The Naxos Music Library Jazz includes the online equivalent of thousands of jazz CDs. Please logout before leaving the Naxos site.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest includes academic and non-academic content in a wide range of fields, from arts, literature, and social science to business, science, technology, and medicine.
Gale Databases Selected Full Text
The Gale Databases cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. They includes peer-reviewed journal articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
Informit 
Selected Full Text
The Informit databases cover a range of topics, including architecture, education, engineering and technology, environment, history, hospitality and tourism, Indigenous peoples, law and crime, social sciences and sports. Many are in full-text.
NewsBank Full Text
NewsBank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
RISM Music Manuscripts after 1600 (CD-ROM)
RISM contains descriptions and sources of manuscripts relating to the works of over 8,000 composers from Europe, the UK and the USA. The RISM CDs are held in Dixson Library at R780.16/R425. An online version of RISM details manuscripts from 1600-1800 held in British and Irish libraries. There are also hundreds of photographs of these manuscripts and scores online.
Web of Science
The Web of Science abstracts the scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Full Text
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online includes images, audio files and over 9,000 pages of text.
Oxford Music Online Full Text
Oxford Music Online includes the full-text of Grove Music Online, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Please logout when finished so other users can login. Guided Tour
Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference offers a range of dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Music collections at UNE
Dixson Library (on the main UNE campus) has a large collection of books and journals on music, plus musical scores, on the lower ground floor.
Gordon Athol Anderson Music Collection of books, journals, manuscripts and microfilms, including specialised medieval material. There is restricted access to this collection located in Dixson Library.
Music Resource Centre in the CB Newling building near the Armidale CBD. There is a large collection of scores and recordings available for loan. The opening hours are:
Monday 8.45am-12.30pm
Tuesday 1.00pm-3.30pm
Wednesday 1.00pm-3.30pm
Thursday 8.45am-12.30pm
The Music Resource Centre collection's catalogue is now online.
Web sites and Internet resources
Balungan A scholary and artistic journal, online and in print at Call Number P781.759/B198.
American Gamelan Institute Gamelan music of all kinds, in Indonesia and around the world. Online and in print with scores, monographs, audio and video recordings.
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
Historic American Sheet Music from Duke University.
Journal of Seventeenth Century Music A refereed forum for scholarly studies of the musical cultures of the seventeenth century.
K-12 Resources for Music Educators This site is aimed at primary and secondary classroom music teachers and students. This page is slow to load.
La Trobe Medieval Music Database A useful online database on medieval music, including bibliographies on pieces and individual composers.
MuseData: an Electronic Library of Classical Music Scores from Stanford University
The Music Council of Australia Information about the Council and useful links
Music Research Databases Worldwide Internet Research Sources.
Music Search A music only search engine for the net.
Music Theory Online A journal of criticism, commentary, research and scholarship, this e-journal has a dissertation index, as well as links to other music journals online.
NFRAM National Networked Facility for Research in Australian Music.
Online Music Scores
University of Regensburg's list of online journals on musicology, many of which are free.
WLSCM Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music
World Music Central Despite its name, this an an e-journal which distributes world music information.