Database of classical music plus biographical information on composers.
Audio collection of music from around the world. Includes reggae, worldbeat, Indian classical, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, and more.
World music reference database featuring over 700 articles plus associated audio examples, illustrations and photographs, song texts, and score examples.
Audio collection covering all types of jazz.
Searchable collection of the back issues of scholarly journals, books from a variety of academic publishers, and images from art collections. The most recent 3-5 years of most journals are not included in JSTOR. (Alums can access JSTOR archival journals by signing in under "Lafayette College Alumni Access" on JSTOR's institution search page.)
Interface for simultaneously searching five music listening databases: American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, and Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound.
Audio collection covering classical, jazz, and world music, with particular strength in 20th and 21st century composers. Users can create playlists and can download the free NML iPhone app to listen to their playlists remotely.
Coverage: 1967-present
Indexes the scholarly literature of music from Amadeus to Zevon.
Rock reviews, articles, and interviews from the 1960s to the present.
Music from the Smithsonian Folkways collection and from other music archives around the world. Strong in American folk and other "roots" music. Includes spoken word recordings, such as poets reading their works.
A collection of stock arrangements for bands or small orchestras of popular songs written by African Americans. Also includes digitized sets of parts and pre-1923 recordings for selected arrangements, songs, and composers.
Indexes information on arias from over 170 operas, with original texts, translations, and MIDI files.
Audio collection of classical music in movies, listed by title of movie.
Index to recorded folk music, searchable by title keyword and performer. Related and alternate titles and melodies are cross-referenced.
Encyclopedia of GLBTQ art, literature, film, music, and popular culture. The encyclopedia was closed and archived in 2015.
Coverage: 1907-1984
Index of major journals in the humanities and social sciences.
Multidisciplinary bibliography indexing journal articles and "miscellany volumes" (conference proceedings, essay collections or Festschriften) covering medieval studies in disciplines ranging from history to languages to art and music.
Large repository of free classical music scores. Provided by the Petrucci Music Library.
Official archival database for Broadway theatre information from the League of American Theatres and Producers. Provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre to present. Includes playwright, opening night cast, theater, performance statistics.
English translations of the vocal works of J.S. Bach with background information on the literary sources and performance history of each work. From The University of Vermont.
Information on all performances of the Metropolitan Opera from it's opening in 1883 to the present.
Digitized images and detailed descriptions of music manuscripts from the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum.
Collection of several hundred classical music scores in various text formats. Browse by composer, instrument, or musical style or search by keyword.
Database of information on opera, including synopses, libretti, source texts, performance histories, discographies, and reviews. Provides information on composers, librettists, and opera companies and links to other opera Web sites.
Images, video, and print material covering popular culture and lifestyle and major events of the time period such as the Vietnam War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights and Women's Liberation movements, and more.
Chronology of rock and roll history from the 1950's through the 1990's.
Provides discographic information on commercially-released show music recordings from the late 19th century to the present. From the Library of Congress.
Large and growing collection of digitized music scores from the Eastman School of Music's Sibley Library, the largest academic music library in North America, with an emphasis on scores not widely held or digitized elsewhere.
A collection of public-domain scores from the John Hay Library of Brown University focusing on Yiddish-language music for the stage. Also includes art songs, folk songs, and sacred music in Yiddish and Hebrew.