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• HathiTrust
• JSTOR
• Oxford Scholarship Online
• Music Databases
• ProQuest Dissertations
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• FSU Digital Library
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• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• RIPM: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
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• JSTOR
• Performing Arts Periodicals Database (IIPA)
• Project MUSE

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Other Reference Resources

• Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
• FSU Research Repository
• Hathi Trust
• Hit Songs Deconstructed
• Index to Printed Music
• IPA Source
• MGG Online(German-language music encyclopedia)
• Orchestral Music Online
• Oxford Bibliographies
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• RILM Music Encyclopedias
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Classical Scores Library

Search Classical Scores Library, containing over 50,000 complete, printable scores from the middle ages to the present, including many 20th and 21st century works still under copyright and not readily available elsewhere online.

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• A-R Editions Online Music Anthology: An extensive collection of music and articles designed expressly for music history and theory courses.
• IMSLP: NO WAITING!: largely public domain scores.
• RISM: Catalog of manuscripts in hundreds of libraries, some digitized
• Digital Manuscript Collections: Digital collections from various libraries
• Sheet Music Consortium: Search sheet music from dozens of collections
• Music in the FSU Digital Library: Digitized items from our Special Collections

Classical

• Naxos Music Library
• Classical Music Library
• DRAM

Folk and World

• American Song
• Contemporary World Music
• Smithsonian Global Sound

Jazz

• Naxos Jazz
• Jazz Music Library

Video

• Classical Performance in Video
• Medici.TV
• Met Opera on Demand
• Naxos Video Library
• Qwest.TV: jazz, blues, soul, world musics
• Dance
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Browse our Special Collections

Valuable and unique autograph manuscripts, first edition copies of major treatises, high-quality reproductions of major works, piano rolls, Braille music, and items from as early as 1562.

Music Research Guides

View our extensive online guides for doing music specific research.

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