Music: A Guide to Library Research

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, a comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world, currently containing over 600,000 entries; approximately 30,000 new records are added every year, covering all document types: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogs, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more. 
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This database contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 480 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 200 periodicals. The comprehensive coverage of the music field and every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music makes Music Index an invaluable resource for both novice and scholar.

Naxos Music Library is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to 86,000 CDs with more than a million tracks, including both standard and rare repertoire. Genres include classical, jazz, folk, blues, nostalgia, world, contemporary instrumental, Chinese, pop and rock, gospel, spoken word, and relaxation.

NML provides access to the complete Naxos catalog, as well as the complete catalogs or selected recordings of over 400 labels such as ARC, Berlin Classics, BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, CPO, EMI Classics, Erato, Haenssler Classic, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Nave, Naxos, Nimbus, Ondine, Teldec, Vanguard Classics, Virgin Classics, and Warner Classics.

NML can be accessed from any computer, or with a iPhone/iPod Touch or Android App.

Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, as well as The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2d ed, revised (2006). Included in Oxford Music Online.