For more information about Music resources, contact the Music Library.
Contents: Databases | Guides | Web Sites
- Academic Search
- 1984-present; indexes over 3,400 scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers in the areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, and multi-cultural studies. Full-text is available for 2,000 journals starting with January 1985. Guide
- African American Music Reference
- Dates vary; text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music.
- Classical Music Library
- Dates vary; Streaming audio access to more than 35,000 individual tracks from 32 labels, specializing in contemporary and women composers. Includes program notes and direct links to some citations and full text articles. Every two weeks, one work is available for download. E-mail alerts are available. See the Compatibility guide for software requirements. Please note: UWM has only 3 simultaneous users for this service. If you cannot get in, please try again later.
- International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
- 1874-present; provides citations and abstracts to more than 400 current music periodicals from over 20 countries. It also includes retrospective coverage from 99 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. A CD-ROM version is also available on library computers via the Start menu-ask a librarian for assistance. Guide
- Magnatune
- Listen online to over 500 hand-picked complete albums. Covers music from all genres including, but not limited to, classical, jazz, and world music.
- Music Index (RMU) ML 118 .M84
- Naxos Music Library
- Over 85,000 tracks of classical, jazz, folk and world music - the entire Naxos Catalogue online, streaming at high-quality 64K sound and lower resolution for dial-up users. Please Note: The UWM Libraries has 10 simultaneous users for this service. If you cannot get in please try again later.
- New Grove II
- New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition (2001). Includes the Dictionary of Opera (1992) and Dictionary of Jazz (2002). Over 29,000 articles.
- RILM
- 1967-present; Published by the Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale, RILM is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines including original language titles, title translations in English; provides full bibliographic information. Over 500 scholarly journals and a variety of other publications are represented. Guide
For more information on finding resources, see Music Resources on the Web.
To find books and other materials in the library, use PantherCat, the online library catalog (guide).
