LibGuides: Music: Home

About this Resource Guide

This Resource Guide was created or Music students and faculty. The guide provides links to electronic and print resources in the library, archived materials at the Ward M. Canaday Center, and Websites focused on Music.

Arjun Sabharwal
Associate Professor & Digital Initiatives Librarian
University of Toledo, Carlson Library
419.530.4497
Email: arjun.sabharwal@utoledo.edu

Music Resources on the Web

Use these resources to locate more literature and materials in Music

Anglicans Online: Music Resources
British Library: Musical Collections
Explore the British Library's online collection of music manuscripts, scores, and letters by composers
Library of Congress, Digital Collections, Music Deivision
The collection features digital archives of sheet music, manuscripts, historical images, books about music, and historic recordings.
Library of Congress: Music Treasures Consortium
"The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives, in order to further research and scholarship."
Morgan Library: Music Manuscripts Online
Access digitized versions of more than 500 music manuscripts.
Opera-Arias.com Database
An aria database containing information about more than 175 Opera Composers, 530 Operas, 2,890 Opera Arias, 860 Opera Duets, 620 Opera Ensembles, 2800 Opera Singers and a total of over 7,690 Opera Scenes. The searchability of this aria database has been designed to be as easy as possible and the information as complete as possible. The database also contains libretti and their English translations
Weiss Jazz History Database
A database of Jazz history containing Biographies, Interviews, Events, Collections and more
The World Music Library

Quicklinks to Music Databases and Archives

Use these resources to get started with your research

Canaday Center Collections: Music, Art, Drama, and Theatre
A Link to the archived manuscript collections preserved and curated at the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections (Carlson Library, 5th floor)
Music Center (OhioLINK): Naxos Music Library
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A digital collection of recordings from the Naxos Music Library. The OhioLINK Music Center contains tens of thousands of digital music files, all available for educational use to the students, faculty and staff of OhioLINK's member institutions. Search by keyword or simply browse through the holdings by selecting a category at left.
Music literature at the University Libraries
Use this link to view a prepared list of library holdings related to Music
Music Research Databases
OhioLINK Electronic Book Center: Music
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OhioLINK collection of electronic books
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC): Music Journals - Long List
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OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC): Music Journals - Short List

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Collection of full text, cross-searchable reference resources for music research and scholarship. Covers all musical forms and genres and includes material on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notations, and individual works. Includes all content in Grove Music Online, including New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Also includes full text content from Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Currently includes over 8,000 articles.