Reference and data sources for Music
Sources below include subscription services accessible to members of the University of Sheffield via MUSE and freely available internet sites.
| Reference and full-text databases | |
|---|---|
| ACM Digital Library | Full-text of ACM publications which cover computer music and sound technology |
| Arts and Humanities Data Service | A searchable catalogue providing access to electronic texts, databases, images, and mixed media resources relevant to arts and humanities subjects including music, performing arts, visual arts, literature, history and archaeology |
| Hudleston Collection of printed guitar music | View online guitar music in digital format. This is freely accessible via the Royal Irish Academy of Music online catalogue and contains over 1,000 works for guitar (solo and chamber music) in the original 19th century editions – please note this music may only be downloaded for a private non-commercial purpose |
| Boosey & Hawkes | Provides information on learning and making music, and an online ‘music finder’ selling sheet music and scores, books, play along CDs and CD-ROMs |
| The British Library Sound Archive | Explore 445000 selected recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments |
| Classical Composers Database | Database of information on classical composers, providing links to further Internet resources |
| CogNet | Online publications on cognitive science from MIT includes items on music |
| Echo: a music-centred journal | A freely accessible, Web-based, peer-reviewed journal created and edited by graduate students in the Department of Musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles |
| Grove Music Online | Online version of the New Grove dictionary of music & musicians. Covers musicology, composers and performers of classical music, jazz, world, rock, popular and light music |
| Music Theory Online | The journal of the Society for Music Theory. Freely accessible and refereed, each issue includes features such as articles, book reviews, and dissertations |
| Naxos music library | Online music from NAXOS classical and jazz collections |
| NewsBank | Full text UK newspaper database, providing online access to news articles in both broadsheet and tabloid newspapers |
| Operabase | A searchable database with details of over 27,000 opera performances since autumn 2002. Information on artists and opera houses is also provided |
| Rock's Backpages | Library of rock music writing & journalism |
| Sound and Music | Provides access to online musical scores, recordings, information on composers, and over 800 audio clips |
| Sound on Sound Magazine | Online version of Sound on Sound, a music recording technology magazine. Free registration is required to read articles and reviews from January 1994 onwards, which track the impact of technology on the music production and recording process |
| Soundtrack.net – the art of film and television music | An online database of film and television soundtrack information, providing details and reviews of each soundtrack. Information is also provided on movie studios, trailer music, and DVD isolated audio tracks |