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Academic OneFile 1980 - current. Interdisciplinary index covering over 10,000 scholarly and popular journals and magazines. Most references include full-text or links to full-text. Contains all of Expanded Academic Index ASAP. Coverage of scientific journals is limited. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/onefile (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/onefile (off-campus).
BMS Online (Bibliographie des Musikschrifttums) 
provides bibliographic data from 1986 to the present. It includes monographs and articles from journals, Festschriften, congress proceedings, yearbooks, anthologies, critical reports and interdisciplinary writings as well as reviews.
Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service. 
Google Scholar Searches for many types of primarily scholarly sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other organizations. Some documents will be available for free while others require a subscription or a one-time access fee. Tips: Note: Preferences can be set to link directly to articles in Middlebury collections. (See above)
Historical Abstracts Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) From 1996 to current. Selective coverage and citations only for articles 1874-1995.
JSTOR Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off-campus)
Music Index Detroit: Information Coordinators; Warren Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1949- . Index Ref ML118.M84 This is the most comprehensive index for materials about music. It primarily includes citations for periodical articles, articles in conference proceedings, Festschriften, etc. as well as citations for books.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from their first issues to 1995 at present and soon to 2000. Formerly PCI.
A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from their first issues to 1995 at present and soon to 2000. Formerly PCI.
Project Muse Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).
Repertoire international de litterature musicale (RILM) Index and abstracts for music journals and magazines, 1969 - current.
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1988- . Oversize ML128.P24 R4 RIPM is an ongoing series of indexes to nineteenth-century music periodicals. More information can be found on the RIPM web page. This link can be used to search RILM and RIPMat the same time.
RoJaRo Index An individually maintained index to find references to articles, discographies, live-/record reviews etc related to a specific artist/group.
Social Sciences Citation Index Indexes core scholarly social science journals worldwide. Search by cited authors or works, or search by words in the bibliographic citations. Go shortcut = go/wos Note: access through Web of Science
WorldCat Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record.
African American Song 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from the Library of Congresss historical collection, includes jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, narratives and other genres. 
Classical Music Library Streamed library of classical music allows you to listen online, anytime!
Smithsonian Global Sound Audio collection of the world's musical and aural traditions--including spoken words and natural and human-made sounds--from recordings of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and other labels.
Music in print This online resource lists citations for printed music. Searching in divided according to instrumentation.
Popular Music An Annotated Guide to American Popular Songs, Including Introductory Essay, Lyricists and Composers Index, Important Performances Index, Chronological Index, and List of Publishers. Bruce Pollock, ed. and others. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1960- . Ref ML120.U5 S5 This is a listing of popular American sheet music from 1900 to the present. Songs are listed by title and the composers, lyricists, and publication information is given for each. Note: Print resource
Popular Song Index Patricia Pate Havlice. 4 v. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1975-1989. Ref ML128.S3 H4 Note: Print resource
This is not a bibliography but an index to the contents of song books published beginning in 1940. The index contains a bibliography of all of the books indexed; entries for the titles, first lines, and the first lines of the chorus; and an index to the names of composers and lyricists. Supplements are issued at irregular intervals to bring the work up to date.
Song Index Minnie Earl Sears and Phyllis Crawford, eds. 2 v. in 1. New York: H.W. Wilson, 1926-1934. Ref ML128.S3 H4 Note: Print resource
The Sears index also indexes songbooks and covers publications before 1934.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians Ref ML105.B16 2001 Baker's is widely regarded as the most authoritative source of biographical information for musicians. Selective lists of works are included for most composers and discographies for popular and jazz musicians. The last volume contains a special index of women composers and musicians, a genre index, and an index by nationality. Note: Print Resource
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Ref ML105.S612 1997 This work is similar to the above publication except that it covers only twentieth-century musicians in greater depth and detail. Note: Print Resource
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians Ref ML105.S7 Note: Print Resource
Contemporary Composers Ref ML105.C75 1992 This book contains listings for 1,000 composers who were alive at the time of publication. Note: Print Resource
Großes Sängerlexikon Ref ML105.K83 1987 This is the most comprehensive listing of biographies of singers, primarily in the classical field, from all time periods and countries Note: Print Resource
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers Aaron I. Cohen. 2nd. ed., rev. and enl. 2 vols. New York: Books and Music, 1987. Ref ML105.C7 1987 Note: Print resource
International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory Ref ML105.I5 1996/97 and Ref. ML105.I58 1996/97 While Baker's includes musicians from all time periods, this work emphasizes biographies of musicians who are currently active throughout the world. Vol. 1. In the Classical and Light Classical Fields. Vol. 2. Popular Music Note: Print Resource
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin, ed. 6 vols. Enfield, England: Guinness Publishing; New York: Stockton Press, 1995. Ref ML102.P66 G84 1995 Virtually all of the entries are for popular music performers or groups and most include a discography There are also a few entries for popular musical topics Note: Print resource
Who's who in American Music: Classical Jaques Cattell Press, ed. 2nd. ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1985. Ref ML106.U3 W6 1985 Note: Print resource
Women in Music: An Encyclopedic Biobibliography Don L. Hixon and Don A. Hennessee. 2nd. ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1993. 2 vols. Ref. ML105.H6 1993 This work "serves as an index to the biographies of women musicians of all periods and countries, as found in a representative selection of significant music dictionaries and encyclopedias. . . . , and other sources not confined to musicians." (p. iv) Note: Print resource
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Colin Larkin. 8 vols. New York: Muze UK, 1998. Ref ML102.P66 G84 1998 Note: Print resource
Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre Kurt Gänzl. 2 vols. New York, NY: Schirmer Books, 1994. Ref ML102.M88 G3 1994 Note: Print resource
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Bruno Nettl, Ruth Stone, et al. 10 vols. New York: Garland and Routledge, 1998. Note: Print resource
Ref ML100.G16 1998
Each volume of this work is devoted to a different region of the world and contains signed articles on different aspects of the music of that region. A compact disc accompanies each volume illustrating the music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music. 
New Grove Dictionary of American Music H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, eds. 4 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. Ref ML101.U6 N48 1986 Note: Print resource
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Barry Kernfeld, ed. 2 vols. London: Macmillan Press; New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1988. Note: Print resource
Ref ML102.J3 N48 1988
New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments Stanley Sadie, ed. 3 vols. London: Macmillan Press; New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984. Note: Print resource
Ref ML102.I5 N48 1984
New Grove Dictionary of Opera Stanley Sadie, ed. 4 vols. London: Macmillan Press; New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1992. Note: Print resource
Ref ML102.O6 N5 1992
This work is also included in the New Grove Dictionary of Music Online.
All Music Guide Ann Arbor, Mich.: All Media Guide. A comprehensive guide to recordings of all genres of music. Short biographical information about artists, groups and composers is followed by extensive discographies
Jazz Discography Tom Lord. West Vancouver, B.C.: Lord Music Reference; Redwood, N.Y.: Cadence Jazz Books, 1992- Note: Print resource
Ref ML156.4.J3 L6 1992
This discography includes jazz recordings beginning in 1898 through the present. It is arranged alphabetically by lead performer with each recording listed under the name in chronological order. All of the titles of the pieces and names of the perfomers are listed along with the label name and number. Indexes to the names of performers and to the titles of pieces on albums provide access to this information
MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide Adam McGovern, ed.Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 2000. Ref ML156.4.W63 M87 2000 Note: Print resource
This recording selection guide covers world music musicians of all types and genres.
Penguin Guide to Compact Discs Ivan March, Edward Greenfield and Robert Layton. Completely rev. and updated. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Ref ML156.9.P45 1999 and Ref ML156.9.P452 2000/01 Note: Print resource
Of the thousands of recordings available, the Penguin Guides cite the most noteworthy. This guide is restricted to classical music recordings and is arranged alphabetically by composer. Each recording is rated on a scale from 1-5 and brief evaluations of the performances are given by the authors
Penguin guide to Jazz on Compact Disc Richard Cook and Brian Morton. 4th ed., completely rev. and updated. London; New York: Penguin Books, 1998. Ref ML156.4.J3 C67 1998 Note: Print resource
The same as for the work listed above except for jazz recordings.
Schwann Catalogs Woodland, Calif.: Schwann Publications. Ref. ML156.2.S The Schwann catalogs list recordings in every format that are currently available commercially. Schwann Opus lists classical music recordings alphabetically by composer, and Schwann Spectrum contains listings for popular music and jazz. The Schwann Artist Issue indexes classical music recordings by the names of performers
Archive of Dissertation Abstracts in Music maintained by Geoffrey Chew. Information on 186 from as far back as 1973, includes author's e-mail addresses
Dissertation Abstracts Online Dissertation Abstracts Online is a subject, title, and author guide to American doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the present, Canadian, British and European dissertations from 1988 to the present. Abstracts are included for entries after 1980
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Cecil Adkins and Alis Dickinson, eds. 7th North American ed.; 2nd international ed. Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, International Musicological Society, 1984. Ref. ML128.M8 A4 1984; 2nd series, 1st cumulative ed. Ref. ML128.M8 A4 1990; 2nd series, 2nd cumulative ed., February 1984-April 1995 Ref. ML128.M8 A4 1996 This is a comprehensive listing of dissertations in music. The work includes completed dissertations and dissertations in progress. Dissertations completed in countries outside of North America prior to 1972 are not listed here This source is more comprehensive than Dissertation Abstracts because of its international coverage and because it includes dissertations from institutions which do not register their dissertations with University Microfilms International. Note: Print resource
Doctorial Dissertations in Musicology -- Online Thomas J. Mathiesen and Nicholas M. Butler, eds. Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1995-. Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online is intended eventually to include all dissertations recorded in all the printed editions of Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology, as well as all new records. The pages showing new records will be updated once each month throughout the academic year.
Music Theory Online Dissertation Index (Society for Music Theory) a component of Music Theory Online, provides peer-reviewed articles in msuic theory.
Diccionario Akal / Grove de la música Translation of: Grove dictionary of music
Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana This is the leading comprehensive music encyclopedia in Spanish. Note: Print resource
Dictionnaire de la musique Ref ML100 .D48 1986 and ML100 .S393 1976 This is the most recent French music encyclopedia. The articles are shorter than other foreign language encyclopedias and generally does not include bibliographic information. It is also divided into terminological and biographical sequences. Note: Print Resource
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart [MGG] Ref ML100 .M92 1994 MGG is a comprehensive encyclopedia of music in German and contains extensive scholarly articles with selective bibliographies on the whole range of musical topics. The 2nd ed. is still being issued; the 1st ed. was begun in 1949. Note: Print Resource
Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti Ref ML100 .D63 1983 and ML105 .D65 1985 This is the leading comprehensive music encyclopedia in Italian. It is divided into two parts: a dictionary of terms and a biographical dictionary. Note: Print Resource
Encyclopedia of Music in Canada Describes the full breadth and depth of Canada’s musical culture, including the historical and current aspects of popular, folk, religious, concert and other forms of music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online This is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1st edition A digitized version of the 1st edition of the Grove Dictionary.
Oxford Music Online The new gateway into music research and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference Note: Includes Grove's Music Online
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General Bibliography for Music Research by Keith Mixter.3rd ed. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 1996. xxii, 200 p. (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 75). This book lists general reference materials that are of use to those doing research in music. Many of the items cited here can be found in the Main Library. Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Lib Ref ML113.M53 1996
Information on Music: A Handbook of Reference Sources in European Languages by Guy A. Marco, et al. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1984. 3 v. Note: Print resource
Call Number: Music Lib Ref ML113.M33
This work supplements Duckles as a bibliography of music reference materials. It is far more detailed and specialized and includes citations to articles as well as books. It also covers popular and folk music more extensively. Vol. 1: Basic and Universal Sources; vol. 2: The Americas; vol. 3: Europe.
Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography by Vincent H. Duckles and Michael Keller. 4th ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1988. 714 p. Ref ML113.D83 1988 This work, commonly known as Duckles, is a classic in the field of music bibliography. It contains citations to virtually all of the scholarly reference sources in music. Note: Print resource
Music: A Guide to the Reference Literature by William S. Brockman.Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1987. 254 p. (Reference Sources in the Humanities Series). Ref ML113.B85 1987 Note: Print resource
A bibliogrpahy patterned on Duckles but less comprehensive in scope and focussing on English language material. It is intended more for the practicing musician or student of music rather than graduate students and scholars.
Sourcebook for Research in Music. by Phillip D. Crabtree and Donald H. Foster.Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. xiii, 236 p. Note: Print resource
Call Number: Music Library Ref ML113.C68 1993
This selected annotated bibliography serves as an introduction to research in virtually all fields of music. Essays for each discipline in music preceed an essential bibliography for that field.
Dictionary of Musical Terms Th. Baker. 22nd ed. New York: G. Schirmer, 1923. Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Library REf ML108.B165
This is a listing of over 9,000 musical terms with short definitions.
Dictionary of Terms in Music: English-German, German- English Horst Leuchtmann. 4th rev. and enl. ed. München; New York: K.G. Saur, 1992. Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Library REf ML108.W73 1992
Musical Terms, Symbols and Theory: An Illustrated Dictionary Michael C. Thomsett. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1989. Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Library Ref ML108.T46 1989
This dictionary is intended for the layman or beginning musician. The definitions are clear and simple to understand.
New Harvard Dictionary of Music Don Michael Randel, ed. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. Ref ML100.N485 1986 Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Library Ref ML100.N485 1986
This work is the standard source for definitions of musical terms. The entries are thorough and authoritative and many include brief bibliographies.
Selected Musical Terms of Non-Western Cultures: A Notebook-Glossary Walter Kaufmann. Warren, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 1990. (Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, no. 65) Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Library Ref ML108.K37 1990
Terminorum Musicae Index Septem Linguis Redactus: Polyglottes Woerterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie Horst Leuchtmann, and others, ed. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó; Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1978. Note: Print Resource
Call Number: Music Library Ref ML108.T4
Musical terms in seven languages (English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, and Spanish) are translated and cross listed. Translations of each term appear in all seven languages under the German musical term, while musical terms in the other languages refer to the German term where the complete listing is to be found. There is also a separate section for Russian terms because they appear in the Cyrillic alphabet.
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