Music

Library

Reference Resources

Performing Arts: from Oxford Reference

"Online access to a wide range of subject dictionaries and 'companions', including The Concise Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. "

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition

"A multi-disciplinary reference resource, the online version of Encyclopedia Britannica."

Databases

Oxford Music Online - Grove Music Online

"Includes the full text with ongoing updates of: The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd ed. (London, 2001); The New Grove dictionary of opera (London, 1992); and, the New Grove dictionary of jazz, 2nd ed. (London, 2002). New articles and articles which have been updated since their appearance in print show a date in the upper right corner of the screen."

Music Databases International Index to Music Periodicals:  IIMP(Music)

"IIMP Full Text draws its current content from more than 380 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, with over 35 full text titles, including retrospective coverage from over 110 periodicals. It provides indexing, abstracting, and selected full text coverage of the most important scholarly and popular musical journals."

JSTOR

"Intended as a comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature, built by over 1,700 worldwide participants, including major Australian universities."

Naxos Music Library

"Naxos Music Library is a comprehensive collection of classical music. It includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Da Capo catalogues of over 75,000 tracks, including classical music, historical recordings, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, users can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos's extensive database."

Project Muse

"Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers."

Web Sites

Music Australia

Developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive, this web site allows you to access information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services.

Music Queensland

Music Queensland is the State Library's digital music collection, and contains digitised copies of historically significant music scores about Queensland. Queensland places, people, events and pastimes are highlighted in this collection.

Music Resources on the Internet

"Extensive collection of links to music information, resources, graphics, newsgroups, discussion lists, organizations, publications."

Sing Online

"Sing is the ABC's enormously successful and long-lived primary school music education program. For more than 40 years, Sing has been the leading resource for music educators throughout Australia and New Zealand."

Professional Associations

Australasian Performing Right Association

Copyright/Licensing musical compositions for broadcast and public performance on behalf of its members.

Australian Music Centre Ltd.

Australian Music Centre is the leading provider of information and scores relating to Australian music.

Australian Music Foundation

"The Initial focus of the Ausmusic Foundation inc. is to assist emerging Australian performers, composers and their support networks."