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Electronic Databases
Subject Specific Database
Music Index Online
Topics cover every aspect of the classical and popular world of music.
Naxos
Audios of classical, world/folk, jazz/contemporary, and new age music, including national anthems. Text resources include opera synopses, opera libretti, histories, and glossaries/dictionaries.  (More Info)
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology-Online
From Indiana University. DDM-Online is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciples. Please note that DDM-Online does not include the dissertations themselves. See a librarian for help in obtaining these materials.
Oxford Reference Online Premium (Performing Art Page)
Provides easily searchable, full text access to reference titles.

General or Related Databases
ERIC (Available through EBSCOhost)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1000 educational and education-related journals.

Academic Search Premier (Available through EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Premier, the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications.

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Electronic Journals
There are many e-journals available through the databases above and from other sources.  Use the Full-Text Journal search tool to search for an individual e-journal title or see a list of music electronic journals.

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Internet Resources
The Duke University Music Library
One of the most comprehensive collections of music reference tools and internet links
Select DW3
The William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University
Worldwide Internet Resources
Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University
Internet Resources for Music Scholars
On this web site view the list of Digital Music Collections
Louisiana State University Music Library
Music Webliography.
On this web site view the List of lists.
Citing Music Sources In Your Essay Bibliography

Mississippi Music Links
Blues Archive
John Davis Williams Library / University of Mississippi
Charles H. Templeton Sheet Music Collection
Mitchell Library /  Mississippi State University
Mississippi Writers and Musicians Web Page
Starkville High School / Starkville, MS

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Print Materials
  • Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
    780.92/B177b 2001 Reference Room
  • The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music
    781.6403/ G948 Reference Room
  • Harvard Dictionary of Music
    780.321 N42 2003 Reference Room
  • New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
    780.3/G919 Reference Room
  • New Grove Dictionary of American Music
    781.773/N42 Reference Room
  • New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
    781.6503/N42 Reference Room
  • New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
    781.91/N42 Reference Room
  • New Grove Dictionary of Opera
    782.103/N42 Reference Room

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