Research Resources

Music Resources

Bibliographies

• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature — A primary database of hundreds of thousands of articles, books, and dissertations. [Available at UM]
• Oxford Music Online (Grove) — Includes extensive bibliographies within its biographical and topical articles. [Available at UM]
• MLA Index and Bibliography Series — Published by A-R Editions, this series covers diverse areas including American music, new musicology, and ethnomusicology. [Available at UM]

Theses

• Theses Canada—Index from 1965 to present; full text from 1998.
• EBSCO Open Dissertations — Search millions of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs)

e-Books

• Alwes, Chester L. A History of Western Choral Music, Volume 2. A History of Western Choral Music. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016. 1289395. View eBook.

• Briley, Ron. Searching for Woody Guthrie: A Personal Exploration of the Folk Singer, His Music, and His Politics. Charles K. Wolfe Music Series. [S.l.]: University of Tennessee Press, 2024. 4135955. View eBook

• Burgess, Richard James. The History of Music Production. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. View eBook.

• Gienow-Hecht, Jessica C. E. Music and International History in the Twentieth Century. Explorations in Culture and International History Series. New York: Berghahn Books, 2014. View eBook.

• Gray, Cecil. History Of Music. London: Routledge, 2004. View eBook.

• Hunt, Jeremy. From Chaos to Ambiguity: A Theology of Noise Rock. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2024. View eBook.

• Oxford History of Western Music -- Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3 / Volume 4 / Volume 5.
• Schulze, Hans-Joachim. Commentaries on the Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: A Selective Guide. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2024. View eBook.

Journals

Academic Music Journals

• Asian Music
• Bach: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute
• Brahms Studies
• British Journal of Ethnomusicology
• Canadian Folk Music / Musique folklorique canadienne
• Current Research in Jazz
• Early Music History
• Folk Music Journal
• Fontes Artis Musicae
• General Music Today
• And many more...

Online Academic Music Articles Databases

• Academic Search Premier (many full-text scholarly articles)
• Atla Religion Database (many academis articles about religion and music)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ; peer-reviewed, open access research articles)
• Google Scholar (links to research articles—some full-text—and books)
• JSTOR (archive of scholarly journals on a wide range of subjects)