LibGuides: Music Research Guide: Recommended Resources

Frequently used resources for music research, performance support, and audio streaming.

JSTOR
Articles, books, and primary sources in many disciplines including Music. Articles are usually 3-5 years old.

Journal Collections
Arts & Sciences I – XV
Life Sciences
Business IV
Hebrew Journals
Ireland
Public Health
Lives of Literature

Reports & Research
Security Studies
Sustainability

Primary Sources
19th Century British Pamphlets (Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets, Manchester Selected Pamphlets, Wilson Anti-Slavery Collection)
World Heritage Sites: Africa (Reference)
Struggle for Freedom: Southern Africa (Reference)
Global Plants (Reference)
Naxos Music Library
Streaming music. Focuses on classical, but also includes jazz, world, and pop/rock. Please LOG OUT when done - access limited to 5 users at a time.
Resources include:
- Liner notes for many recordings
- Audio book transcriptions about the history of classical music and opera with listening examples
- Libretti and synopses of over 700 operas
- A pronunciation guide for composer and artist names
- A glossary
- An overview of important musical terms
- Work analyses
- Work details with instrumentation, publishers, duration, other information and available recordings
- Classical music podcasts
Please see the Naxos FAQ if you have any questions: https://umsl-nml3-naxosmusiclibrary-com.ezproxy.umsl.edu/faqs
Oxford Music Online
Authoritative background information for Music research. Home of Grove Music Online.

Note: Only one UMSL user at a time can access the Oxford Music Online database. Please close out of Oxford Music Online when you are finished using it.
IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library
The IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library is primarily a collection of public domain music scores which also contains thousands of recordings ( mostly from the Western classical canon). Note: Some files may be copyright protected.
IPA Source
The web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions & literal translations of aria and art song texts.

I can't copy the text in my PDF. Why is it locked?
The files are indeed protected from copying and pasting and have been since IPA Source went public in the mid 2000’s. We, unlike other companies, allow download of the PDF product and printing. This allows you to create a study document both electronically and in paper form.
Unfortunately, piracy is a big problem. Every month we search and remove illegal copies of our work from the web. Between illegal postings and direct file sharing, our financial loss is not insignificant.
We restrict cutting and pasting – a step fully endorsed by teachers. Future versions of IPA Source will employ additional document security practices.
One last point, all our files use a non-True Type IPA font which would most likely read as gibberish when placed in another document.
See the publisher's FAQs: https://www.ipasource.com/faqs/
Music Index
Indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 475 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 230 periodicals.