Databases and Indexes
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Naxos Music Library
DRAM (Recorded Anthology of American Music)
Currently DRAM's collection contains nearly 2,300 albums worth of recordings from a diverse set of record labels, including New World Records, CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music.
Musical Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
These links available on site only to SFCM students and faculty:
Oxford Music Online
Covers all aspects of music, including composers, performers, terminology, musical genres and forms.
(Includes:
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and
New Grove Dictionary of Opera.)
General Dictionaries and Reference Works
Merriam-Webster Dictionary – word definitions, plus Spanish-English dictionary, thesaurus, and more.
Thesaurus – find synonyms and antonyms
Bartleby.com – dictionaries, encyclopedias, quotations and more.
Music Business
Musical America
Includes searchable directories for performers, artist managers, companies, festivals, competitions, and schedules.
Abstracts and Indexes
These links available on site only to SFCM students and faculty:
Music Index
Indexes more than 640 international music periodicals. Includes musicological data, book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries.
Index to Printed Music
Use IPM for finding individual pieces of music published in standard scholarly editions. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present. Content is searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments, and results can be limited by genre and/or language.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
RILM is a comprehensive music bibliography featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. All document types and media such as books, conference proceedings (going back to 1835), journal articles, dissertations as well as internet resources, sound recordings and motion pictures are included. RILM also features bilingual abstracts and all non-Roman scripts.
