Naxos Music LibraryHas 87,000 tracks including the complete Naxos classical, jazz, world-music and historical releases. NML aims at presenting the widest possible range of classical music rather than focusing on different performances of a narrow repertoire.
The largest, most diverse, and comprehensive catalogue of online classical music content in the world: concerts, documentaries, interviews wih composers, and musicians, rehearsals, and other type of sources. The platforms allows for easy browsing by subject (music history, opera), composer’ name, and content type.
This comprehensive digital collection encompasses all major classical musical genres and time periods from the Middle Ages to the twenty first century. With full, study, piano, and vocal scores, this comprehensive collection serves to enhance the study of music history, performance, composition and theory.
Artwork, books, medieval manuscripts, photographs, recordings, sheet music, and artifacts from museums, archives, and libraries located in the countries that are members of the European Union.
Includes biographies of musicians in all musical genres, along with interesting and insightful evaluations of their contributions to the musical world.
An authoritative resource for music research. Grove Music Online covers the history and cultures of music and musicians worldwide. Topics include people in history; classical antiquity; places; institutions and the music industry; music terminology and concepts; instruments and instrument makers; non-Western and traditional music; individual performers and ensembles; popular music and musicians; music and religious ritual; and opera, music theatre and dance.
A bibliography is a list of the books of an author or publisher, or on a specific subject. Oxford Bibliographies, compiled by scholars and librarians, contain extensive lists of annotated titles on many topics within the study of art history. It is a great way to find authoritative sources on your topic.
Each subject contains an extensive introduction (which provides an overview of the topic) as well as a list of annotated titles of books, arranged by category.
An overview of UTL's licensed e-resources that offer electronic access to audio and video.
Other major research resources (reference sources and journal databases) in the field of Music are listed on the University of Toronto Libraries website.
Provides links to a vast range of resources on a variety of music topics (music theory, archival collections, online scores and sound recordings, discographies and bibliographies; scholarly societies, and a miscellany of useful websites), many of which are free.
A fully searchable database including variety of essential reference books, spanning the entire history of Western classical music.
Lead image: Teofil Kwiatkowski (1809–1891), Chopin’s Polonaise—A Ball in Hôtel Lambert in Paris (1859), watercolor on paper (gouache).