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Key Subject Resources

These are just some of the resources available. Links to other subject-specific resources; and subject-relevant, multi-disciplinary resources; can be found on the other tabs of this Music Subject Libguide. All electronic resources can be accessed off-campus through the University's VPN service called Global Protect. Further information on how to connect to the University's VPN using Global Protect can be found here.

Cambridge Companions to Music

Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics. Each volume provides specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage of the topic.

Grove Music Online
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Grove Music Online is the authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe. Based on a work first published in 1879 and updated frequently, Grove has been in continuous publication for over a century and now publishes hundreds of new articles and article revisions each year
Medici.tv
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Medici.tv offers over 1,200 films of classical music concerts, documentaries etc.
Naxos Music Library
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Listen online to over 85,000 CDs (from Naxos & a selection of other record labels) of mainly classical music, but including other genres such as Blues and Jazz.

Complete or selected recordings from over 640 labels such as ARC, Berlin Classics, BIS, Capriccio, Chandos, EMI Classics, Erato, Hänssler Classic, Hungaroton, Naïve, Naxos, Nimbus, Ondine, Virgin Classics and Warner Classics. Also includes Music notes, cover artwork, track lists, instrumentation, publisher information and Libretti and synopses of more than 700 operas plus more than 40,000 composer and artist biographies.
Oxford Bibliographies: Music
Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative research guides which combine the features of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia. A good introduction to researching a particular topic.
RILM Abstracts of Music
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1967-present) indexes thousands of journals, books, dissertations, conference proceedings etc, covering classical, pop, folk, jazz and ethnomusicology.
Rock's Backpages
An online archive of popular music newspapers and magazines, going back to the 1960s.

An extensive archive of the major popular music magazines published in the USA and the UK since the early 1960s. It includes: UK publications NME, Melody Maker, Sounds, Record Mirror, MOJO, Uncut, Vox, Q, Smash Hits and Kerrang!; US publications Rolling Stone, Fusion, Creem, Circus, Phonograph Record, Record World and Billboard.

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New Resources
PressReader - provides digital access to over 7000 top global newspapers and magazines.
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See the Library's guide to New Resources to find out what else has just arrived.