Thomas Gorton Music and Dance Library
University of Kansas
Note: A double asterisk (**) preceding an entry indicates a change in title or
URL since the first printing of Vincent H. Duckles and Ida Reed, Music Reference and
Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography, 5th ed. (New York: Schirmer Books,
1997). (c) 1997 Schirmer Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan,
all rights reserved. (Call number: Music Reference ML 113 .D83 1997)
Ordering information can be found at http://www.mlr.com/schirmer.
1 OCLC
Available via Library Menu, FirstSearch (in any KU Libraries)
Also available via the Libraries Web site, http://www.lib.ku.edu/electro.shtml.
2 Research Librarians Information Network (RLIN)
See Music and Dance Librarian
3 Arts & Humanities Search
Available as Arts & Humanities Citation Index via Library Menu (in any KU
Libraries)
4 Dissertation Abstracts Online
Available via Library Menu (in any KU libraries)
5 Internationaler biographischer Index / World Biographical Index
Not available at KU
6 Billboard/Phonolog Music Reference Library on CD-ROM
Not available at KU
7 CPM (Catalog of Printed Music) Plus, 2d ed.
[1503-1996]
Available in CD-ROM format in Music and Dance Library only.
8 International Index to Music Periodicals
Available in CD-ROM format in Music and Dance Library only
Also available in Web version at http://music.chadwyck.com
for KU community, with limit of four simultaneous users.
9 MuSe (MUsic SEarch)
Includes RILM Abstracts and Library of Congress Music Catalog.
Available in Music and Dance Library only
10 The Music Catalog
Not available at KU
11 Music Index on CD-ROM
Available in Music and Dance Library only
Also available in Web version at http://216.28.180.99/dthtml/index.htm
12 MUZE
Not available at KU
13 RILM Abstracts
Available as Music Literature, via Library Menu: FirstSearch Specialized Databases
14 RISM Series A/II Music Manuscripts after 1600
Available in CD-ROM format in Music and Dance Library only
Also available in Web version at http://rism.harvard.edu/rism/
15 Archive of World Music
http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/AWM/AWM.html
16 Archives of African American Music and Culture
http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/index.html
17 Beethoven Bibliographical Database
** http://sjsu1.sjsu.edu:83/
18 CAIRSS for MUSIC: Database of Music Resources
** http://imr.utsa.edu/CAIRSS.shtml or
telnet://UTSAIBM.UTSA.EDU
At TS> !VT100,3278 press RETURN. At the UTSA screen, type LIBRARY, select LOCAL, then
select CMUS.
19 CANTUS: Database of Chants for the Divine Service. (Catholic University)
**http://publish.uwo.ca/~cantus/
20 The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM)
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~musicbox/charm1.html
**21 Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology Online
http://www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/
**22 The African Music Encyclopedia [formerly Encyclopedia of African Music: Music from Africa and the African Diaspora]
** http://africanmusic.org
23 Folkways/Smithsonian Database
**http://www.si.edu/organiza/offices/folklife/database/
**24 Gaylord Music Library Necrology [formerly
Gaylord Music Library Necrology File]
**http://library.wustl.edu/units/music/necro/
25 Gilbert and Sullivan Collection
**[Not available]
26 The Golden Pages: University Music Departments’ and Faculties’ Home
Pages
http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Links/musdepts.html
27 International Alliance for Women in Music
**http://music.acu.edu/www/iawm/
28 Italian Music Homepage
**http://www.cilea.it/music/entrance.htm
29 Latin America Music Center
http://www.music.indiana.edu/som/lamc/
**30 Public-Domain Opera Libretti and Other Vocal Texts [formerly Libretto Home
Page]
**http://php.indiana.edu/~lneff/libretti.html
**31 The Lied and Song Text Page [formerly Lieder and Songs: Texts]
http://www.recmusic.org/lieder
**32 The Jean-Baptiste Lully Collection [formerly Lully Web Project]
**http://www.unt.edu/lully/
**33 MuSICA: The Music & Science Information Computer Archive (formerly
Music and Brain Information Database)
** http://musica.uci.edu
34 Polish Music Reference Center
**http://www.usc.edu/dept/polish_music/
**35 Renaissance Liturgical Imprints: A Census
(RELICS)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~davidcr
36 RISM WWW Homepage
http://rism.harvard.edu/rism/
**37 TmiWeb [formerly Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum]
**http://www.euromusicology.org/tmiweb/tmiweb.htm
38 Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum: TML
**http://www.music.indiana.edu/tml
**39 Kurt Weill Foundation for Music [formerly Kurt
Weill Foundation]
http://www.kwf.org/
American Choral Directors Association
**http://www.auburn.edu/auchoirs/acda/
American Federation of Musicians
http://www.afm.org/
**The American Music Network (see Society for American Music)
AMS (American Musicological Society)
**http://www.ams-net.org/
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and
Publishers)
http://www.ascap.com/ascap.html
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, Inc.
** http://www.aacmchicago.org
BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.)
http://www.bmi.com
College Music Society
http://www.music.org/
Institute of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University)
**http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rulib/abtlib/danlib/jazz.htm
Indiana University Worldwide Internet Music Resources
http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources
MENC (Music Educators National Conference)
http://www.menc.org/
MLA Clearinghouse (Music Library Association)
http://www.music.indiana.edu/tech_s/mla/index.htm
Music Educator’s Home Page
**[Not available]
Music Publishers’ Association
http://www.mpa.org/
National Music Publishers Association
**[Not available]
Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society
** [Not available]
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
http://www.rockhall.com/
**Society for American Music [formerly the American Music
Network (Sonneck Society)]
http://www.american-music.org/
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States
**http://seamus.lsu.edu
SMT (Society for Music Theory)
**http://smt.ucsb.edu/smt-list/smthome.html
**Society for Seventeenth-Century Music [formerly Society
for 17th Century Music]
http://rism.harvard.edu/sscm/
Send comments, questions, or revisions to music-ref@ku.edu
Produced Sept. 19, 1997 by Vic Cardell
With the assistance of David Allen
Last revised: April 15, 2001