Research Guides: Music: Getting Started...

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No matter what your research topic is, here are a few good places to start:

NYU Library Catalog
NYU's main library catalog: find books, articles, scores, recordings, and more in one search. Sign in with your NetID to get more results.

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Oxford Music Online is an integrated package of three important music reference publications: Grove Music Online, Oxford Companion to Music, Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Naxos Music Library is a collection of recorded music with over 150,000 albums of classical repertoire, film and TV soundtracks, pop, jazz, and world music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
RILM Abstracts is a comprehensive research database of international scholarship in the field of music, with over 1 million records in 143 languages from 178 countries, including journal articles, books, dissertations, concert and record reviews, and more.