Music

MGG Online is a comprehensive German music encyclopedia with integrated translation via Google Translate. It features the complete second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) along with regularly updated and newly written articles.

RILM abstracts of music literature with full text (RAFT) expands and enhances RILM abstracts with the addition of a million pages of full-text content from more than 200 key periodicals. Coverage includes articles and reviews as well as obituaries, editorials, correspondence, advertisements, and news. The current count of journal titles in full text can be found at the RILM website; these numbers will increase monthly until the total number of journals reaches 240, from 50 countries in 40 languages, published from the early 20th century to the present, and comprising close to 200,000 full-text records. Full publication runs back to the first issue will be present for most journals. In addition to metadata, abstracts, and indexing curated and written by RILM's team of subject experts, RAFT offers search and browse for each full-text issue, cover to cover.

RILM music encyclopedias is a full-text compilation of 41 titles published from 1775 to the present, the majority of which are not available anywhere else online. It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of many disciplines, fields, and subject areas, among them popular music, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries and languages—English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek.

RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text (formerly RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals + RIPM Online Archive) ​ is an extensive collection of music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern period, from Beethoven to Bartók and from Schubert to Stravinsky.

The database, also known as Repertoire international des sources musicales, documents the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools, and private collections. It includes more than 564,000 items by over 19,500 composers. The manuscripts reside in over 740 libraries and archives in 31 countries.

The Music Periodicals Database is a music journal resource with more than 770,000 articles. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 425 international music periodicals and full text from 201 journals. MPD covers a comprehensive range of subject areas in both scholarly and popular music journals ranging from International Journal of Music Education, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Education Journal and Musical Times to Rock and Rap Confidential and Rolling Stone. Articles examine the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

This resource indexes music from ancient Greek times to the present. It can be useful for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with hundreds of thousands of records of individual music works.

The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin. The online version includes all 1.25 million words, 500 images, and 1,800 musical examples from the updated paperback edition with sophisticated search and browse functionality designed to maximize the dynamic possibilities of online reading and research. Taruskin’s text is accompanied by editorially selected links to relevant articles in Oxford Art Online.

Oxford Music Online is a platform for searching across many music reference works, including:

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
  
• The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
  
• The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
  
• The Grove Dictionary of American Music, or Grove Music Online
  
• The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

*Oxford's home page features a prominent login which is optional (use it to save searches and content to a personal account)

Search the Grove Dictionary of Music via the Oxford Music Online platform. While Grove Music Online was first launched in 2001, it originated as a print dictionary that has been in continuous publication since 1878. Grove Music Online is the eighth edition of the venerable Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which from its inception has been the foremost English-language encyclopedia of music. The online edition includes updated versions of previous Grove publications as well as hundreds of articles commissioned specifically for the online edition. *Oxford's home page features a prominent login which is optional (use it to save searches and content to a personal account)

Text of more than 100 Oxford University Press reference works, including Oxford Companions to American Literature, American Theatre, the Bible, British History, Classical Civilization, History of Modern Science, Music, Philosophy, Politics of the World, Shakespeare, United States History, and Western Art. Available titles may be found in OneSearch.

Growing repository of historical and current data from Billboard, Official Chart Company, Media Control and many more reporting agencies around the world. Database name changed to Music Industry Data in November 2014.

Online access to over 85,000 tracks from over 5,500 recordings in classical music, jazz, folk music, and world music. The offerings may be browsed by genre or by such categories as chamber music, composers, film music, opera, etc. or searched using the advanced search screen. Please consult the User Instructions. If prompted for a login, use GCCUNY01 as both user name and password.

Collection of over 450 Oxford University Press handbooks in all available subjects. Available titles may also be found in OneSearch. Other than Music, our collections do not include titles published after 2014--but those handbooks are available through the New York Public Library remotely.

Full text of scholarly books published by Oxford University Press. While the Graduate Center subscription allows access to abstracts of books in other disciplines, full ebooks are available only for titles in history, linguistics, music, philosophy, political science, and psychology. Available titles may be found in OneSearch. For other disciplines, check availability via the New York Public Library remotely.

Full text of Cambridge University Press reference works published up to 2015.
For titles published after 2015, check Cambridge Core on-site at New York Public Library locations.