Library Music 451/German 351

• Reference Universe
  Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.
• Oxford Music Online
  Oxford Music online is the access point for Grove Music Online and other Oxford music reference resources.
• Oxford History of Western Music
  An account of the evolution of western music by Richard Taruskin.
• MGG Online (Musik In Geschichte Und Gegenwart)
  General encyclopedia of music covering every aspect of music and related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts
• Oxford Bibliographies
  Peer-reviewed, annotated bibliographies in the areas of: Latino Studies; Medieval Studies; Music; Philosophy; Political Science; and: Sociology.
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
  Comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.
• Classical Music Reference Library
  A collection of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database.
• Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
  Includes nearly 3 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world, offering full text for most of the 80,000 new dissertations added each year since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage.

Print reference sources:

Vienna, compiled by C.M. Peniston-Bird. AC Ref  DB847 .P46
Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: from the Congress of Vienna to the fall of communism, edited by Richard Frucht. AC Ref  DJK6 .E53
Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture, edited by John Sandford. AC Ref  DD290.26 .E53

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967 to present)
  Covers literature on music from all over the world.
• Arts & Humanities Database
  Full-text publications that focus on art, architecture, design, history, philosophy, music, literature, theatre and cultural studies.
• Music Periodicals Of The 19th Century
  Collection of full-text periodicals depicting American musical life from 1838 to the early 1900s
• JSTOR
  Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
• Project Muse
  Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. (Alumni access)
• Academic Search Premier (date coverage varies)
  Full-text articles from over 3,600 journals in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and sciences.

• Classical Scores Library
  Classical music scores Content includes 24,000+ titles.
• Classical Music Library
  Classical music recordings (14,000+ albums) including vocal, choral, chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental music and opera.
• IMSLP/Petrucci Music online
  Library of scores in the public domain
• Musical Scores (Eastman School of Music)
  Collection of public domain scores from the collections of the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester.

Tips for finding books:

Amherst uses the Library of Congress Classification System. Musical scores and books about music have call numbers beginning with:

• M for scores
• ML for music literature
• MT for instruction and study.

These are arranged by subject within each call number range. Browsing the book stacks may turn up relevant books you don't find in your catalog searches.

Tip 1: Use the Advanced search function to perform more targeted searches. Here's an example:

Tip 2: Use Subject terms to lead to or search for other relevant books in the catalog. Here's an example:

• Naxos Music Library
  Streaming music; listen to songs or the complete CD. Most extensive collection of classical music available, but also includes jazz, world music, spoken word, and more. Adobe Flash Player 10 is required for streaming.
• Naxos Video Library
  A performing arts video library that includes operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places.
• Kanopy Streaming Video
  Kanopy offers a broad selection of thousands of streaming films, documentaries, and theatrical releases covering a wide variety of subject areas, with additional new releases launched monthly. If close-captioning is not included, it can be requested. Interactive transcripts are included. Note that US feature films are not typically part of the Kanopy offerings.
• Met Opera on Demand (1936 to present)
  More than 450 extraordinary Met performances, video and audio streaming.
• Medici.tv
  Collection of live broadcasts, archived concerts, artist portraits, documentaries and education programs for classical music, operas, and ballets.