Music Research Resources

Research Help

• Class and Research Guides
• Help Using the Library
• Mechanics of Research and Writing
• Avoid Plagiarism

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

• Oxford Music Online
  (includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music)
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
• Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
• Harvard Dictionary of Music
• Oxford History of Western Music (Taruskin)

• Foreign Language Dictionaries
• Online Reference Collection

Dissertations 

• ProQuest Digital Dissertations
• UIUC Music Dissertations in IDEALS
• Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
• Networked Digital Library Theses and Dissertations
• for more subject- and country-specific sources, see "Dissertations and Theses" tab of Music 511 library course guide

Other Collections  

• Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
• Sousa Archives Music Instrument Digital Image Library
• School of Music Choral/Orchestra Ensemble Library 
• OPE (Office of Outreach and Public Engagement in Music) Library