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Online References

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Grove Music Online - comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music - Oxford University Press
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera - Oxford University Press
Who’s Who in Opera - Oxford University Press

Print References
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Dictionary of Performing Arts in Australia
Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works
Performance Practice: a dictionary-guide for Musicians
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Lieder line by line
World Music The Rough Guide

Biographical

Cambridge Companion to Mozart
Classical Music – the Rough Guide
Oxford Companion to Australian Music
Dictionary of Composers
Contemporary Composers
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Composers

All databases are accessed via Supersearch

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Select Subject from the pull-down menu (it will say Resource Sets)

Select Performing + Visual Arts

Then select Music Performance + Improvisation, or Music Composition from the sub-categories box.

Select the database you want to search, or click on the check boxes to search several databases at once.

Music Index Online A Subject-Author Guide to Music Periodical Literature. Coverage begins at 1979 to the present

RILM online - (Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale) provides citations with abstracts and selected FULLTEXT articles. Includes journal articles, books, dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, audio recordings, conference proceedings, reviews, etc. Coverage is from 1967 -

RIPM online - (Répertoire International de la Presse Musicale) an index to 19th- and early 20th-century international music periodicals providing a bibliography of articles on the history of music and musical life, including contemporary writings about composers, performers, critics, compositions, institutions, instruments, etc.

CAIRSS for Music - bibliographic database of music research literature in music education, music psychology, music therapy, and music medicine. CAIRSS is updated infrequently.

All Online Audio Libraries are accessed via Supersearch

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Classical Music Library - 35,000-plus tracks for listening and searching is supplemented by extensive reference materials.
Naxos Music Library - a comprehensive collection of over 75,000 tracks of classical music, jazz and ethnomusicology recordings available online.
Streamed Off-Air Music - University of Melbourne - includes recordings from the radio (made by University of Melbourne Media Unit) including Australian compositions and performances and hard to come by work. This material is provided for the exclusive use of students and staff of the University of Melbourne under the provisions of Part VA of the Copyright Act (1968). Authorised users may be required to provide their user name and email server password for off-campus access. Requires Quicktime

To search for databases not in the Art set, select Search for Databases and enter the title

APAIS - Australian Public Affairs Information Service. Provides links to articles from hundreds of leading Australasian journals

APAFT - provides internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities.

Expanded Academic ASAP - indexes across all academic disciplines. Access to abstracts and some full text articles.

ERIC - Education database. Full text access dependant upon contributor permission. Covers articles in Education including the arts.

JSTOR - is an archive of scholarly journals covering a wide variety of disciplines. JSTOR does not include articles published in recent years, but may provide a link to them.

MLA International Bibliography - a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics since 1926.

Project Muse - is an online resource which indexes a range of full-text scholarly journals. Subjects covered include the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

All e-journals are accessed via Supersearch. Login and select Find an e-journal. Enter the title you want to look at.

Some available e-journals

Acta Musicologica
Asian Music
Australasian Music Research
Cambridge Opera Journal
Computer Music Journal
Current Musicology
Down Beat
Early Music
Leonardo Music Journal
Music & Letters
Musical Quarterly
Musicology Australia
Opera Quarterly
Perspectives of New Music
Piano & Keyboard
Popular Music
Tempo
Twentieth-Century Music
Women and Music

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At VCA
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In Australia

Australian Digital Theses Project contains digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at the participating 7 Australian Institutions - also links to relevant Electronic Theses & Dissertations sites.

Internationally
Index to Theses Index to These Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards.

Proquest Digital Dissertations - online access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts Database.

Music Theory Online: Dissertation Index.

Coolcat - Victorian Academic Libraries

Libraries Australia - National Catalogue of Academic, State and Public Libraries including RMIT Library Catalogue and the State Library of Victoria.

Serials in Australian Libraries (SIAL) - lists the locations of over 478,300 serials in Australian Libraries and can be searched to locate journals not held by the Victorian College of the Arts. . Login to Supersearch and click on Find a Database, then search for SIAL

For a full list of Music-related websites click here

Australian Music Centre - a national organisation which makes available information, music resources and publications.

Arts Hub  - Online information for Australian arts workers, jobs worldwide, and industry news from Australia and the world

MusicAustralia  - online service developed by the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive. Access and navigate information on Australian music, musicians, organisations and services. 

Researching Music Guide - from University of Melbourne Faculty of Music

Researching Music (Advanced) - from University of Melbourne Faculty of Music

Citing and Referencing - University of Melbourne guide
Endnote Music Filters - List of filters relevant to music databases - help downloading records to Endnote
Endnote - Guide from University of Melbourne on how to use Endnote, how to download it etc.
Copies are available from the VCA Library Loans Desk.
Endnote Filters - List of filters relevant to Performing and Visual Arts databases. Help downloading records into Endnote.

Finding Information on the Internet
Searching and Evaluating - University of Melbourne guide
Internet Tutorials - Online guides from the University at Albany, NY
Choosing the best search engine - A tool for choosing the best search engine for a particular search. Developed in California by NoodleTools.