
BOOKS
DATABASES
The GALILEO Databases will be very useful for you.
You can also use Academic Search Complete , Research Library , and OmniFile Full Text to research your topic
NAXOS Music Library -
(This database is available on campus and via Secure Connect)
Naxos Music Library is the world's largest Classical music listening service. YHC has a 5 user license, so if you are not able to connect, try again later. To help others, please remember to use the LOGOUT function in the top right corner when you are finished. The system will automatically log you off after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Music Online Reference Collection from Alexander Street Press ![]()
(These databases are available on campus and via Secure Connect)
Classical Scores Library - Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 scores. This release includes 3,587 scores.
African American Music Reference - African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 2,535 essays and images from 63 sources.
Classical Music Reference Library - Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form. This release includes 26,619 essays and images from 23 sources.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online - The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online 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. This release includes 1,210 essays and images from 10 sources.
International Bibliography of Theater and Dance![]()
includes full-text articles and books for those studying theatre and the performing arts. This database was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD since 1984.
JSTOR ![]()
JSTOR is not a current issues database. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR The Arts & Sciences I Collection includes the complete back runs of 119 titles in fifteen disciplines and includes many of the core research and society published journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. This collection also includes a selection of titles in the more science-oriented fields of ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
New York Times Historical Newspaper - access back to 1850.
WEB PAGES
General Resources
World Music
Classical Music
Popular Music
See also Musical Theatre