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Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music)
The home of Grove Music Online and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products.
Naxos Music Library
Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 84,150 CDs with more than 1,211,900 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
IPA Source
Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
Opera in Video
This database will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. This release includes 148 videos, equalling 318 hours.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
A comprehensive, ongoing guide to publications on music from all over the world, is an indispensable tool for scholars, students, librarians, performers, teachers, and music lovers. RILM includes over 570,000 records covering all document types: articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings, conference proceedings, electronic resources, reviews, and more.

Music Periodicals Database
Formerly known as The International Index to Music Periodicals, Music Periodicals Database is a music journal resource with almost 800,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to the present, covering the scholarly to the popular.
Performing Arts Periodicals Database
Provides indexing and abstracts for a wide range of journals from 1864 to the present covering theatre, dance, film, stagecraft, musical theatre, television, performance art, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and other performing arts.

Literature Online (LION)
A searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 315 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

The Aria Database
A collection of information about opera and operatic arias including basic information about each aria and translations for many arias and texts for those that are not affected by copyright restrictions.
J.S. Bach: Texts of the Complete Vocal Works
With English translation and commentary
Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres
Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres is a cross-index of data for over 38,000 opera and oratorio premieres. It allows complex searches across multiple categories or simple browsing within any single category, such as genre, composer, librettist, premiere date, country, oratorio subject, or theater. The database is linked to SearchWorks, Stanford University Libraries catalog, allowing users to easily find related scores, recordings, and writings.
LanguageGuide.org
LanguageGuide.org is a project of Language Guide, an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to develop free language learning resources. These resources are intended to encourage active learning and allow users to actually hear and practice speaking the language.
Forvo
Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world with over 300 languages represented and over two million pronunciations.

ARTstor
A digital library of over two million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes. Includes images of musical instruments and performance space architecture.
Ebsco Academic Search Premier
Multidisciplinary, full text database for more than 4,500 journals, including peer-reviewed titles, some back to 1975.
JSTOR
Scholarly journal archive, going back to the first issue for many titles.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including some full-text.

Periodicals Index Online
A general database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
A comprehensive online encyclopedia devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples.