Guides: Music Education: Getting Started

Reference Sources

Grove Music Online (Oxford) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive music reference tool incorporating New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, New Grove Opera, New Grove Jazz, Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, Grove Dictionary of American Music, and Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments; along with the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music, which are part of the new Oxford Reference Online interface.

Now part of Oxford Music Online, the Grove music resources are the best place to start your music research.

Books and Articles

WorldCat Discovery This link opens in a new window
Find books, DVDs, CDs, and print and online journal titles held by Preus Library, as well as links to articles and citations from databases such as Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, Project Muse, America: History and Life, and Historical Abstracts.
ERIC [Education Resource Information Center] (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to education literature and research, including information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
A full-text collection of over 3,400 major scholarly journals and over 100,000 scholarly monographs. The digitized archive includes the first issue published for each journal (some are from 1665 to the present); but excludes the most recent 2 to 5 years for most journals.
RILM Music Abstracts (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, conference proceedings, discographies, dissertations, ethnographic recordings, Festschriften, films, iconographies, and videos published 1967 – present.
Music Index (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Citations for journal articles and reviews of books, recordings and performances published 1979 – present. Paper version, 1949-1979, in Index Area: ML118 .M8