LibGuides: Music: Home

Library Catalog

Search the Library catalogs for books, journals, scores, recordings, videos, and other materials.

D iscovery Search: searches books, DVDs, and other materials @ all 5 Colleges; e-books, e-journals, scholarly full-text articles, and UMass subscription databases.
Five College Library Catalog: searches books, DVDs, and other materials @ all 5 Colleges, and UMass subscription databases.

Music scores, books, DVDs, and CDs can be found on the 6th floor of Du Bois.

IMPORTANT: Off campus access to databases requires login with your NetID username and password.

These databases are a good place to begin your Music research:

Oxford Music Online
Definitive encyclopedia of music and musicians, musical compositions, instruments, and composer work lists.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text
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Citations, abstracts and full text of journal articles in dance, film, theater, and puppetry, 1864-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Music Index Online
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Indexes articles in 400 music periodicals, 1975-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
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References to music journal articles and other scholarly literature, 1967-present.

Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.