Music - Library Resources
University of Melbourne Library Catalogue
Help with Library Catalogue
Supersearch - Online gateway to all University of Melbourne Electronic Resources
Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library Sound Recording Catalogue (not available on Library Catalogue)
List of Music Journals - paper and electronic. Held at the Lenton Parr Library and the Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library and online via Supersearch.
Additional Music Resources are also available at Louise Hanson-Dyer Music Library, Parkville campus
Online References
To search for online reference works, login to Supersearch and select Find a Database. Enter the title you want to look at. Follow the links.
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
Login to Supersearch. Select Music from the Subject Set menu.
Then select Music Performance + Improvisation, or Music Composition etc from the sub-categories box.
Select the database you want to search, or click on the check boxes to search several databases at once.
Examples of relevant databases:
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.
Classical Music Library - 35,000-plus tracks for listening and searching is supplemented by extensive reference materials.
Available only to University of Melbourne students and staff. Accessed via Supersearch. Log in to Supersearch. Select the Subject Set for Audio + Visual Materials.
Naxos Music Library - a comprehensive collection of over 75,000 tracks of classical music, jazz and ethnomusicology recordings available online.
Available only to University of Melbourne students and staff. Accessed via Supersearch. Log in to Supersearch. Select the Subject Set for Audio + Visual Materials
Australian Composers Audio Online - This is a select list of the works of Australian composers, available online. All files require a high bandwidth connection. Available only to University of Melbourne students and staff.
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. All files require a high bandwidth connection. Available only to University of Melbourne students and staff.
Requires Quicktime.
Australian Sound Recordings - MusicAustralia - free access
Internet Archive - Audio Archive - free access
To search for databases not in the Supersearch Music subject set, select Search for Databases and enter the title.
Other relevant databases:
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
All newspapers are accessed via Supersearch. Login and select Newspapers from the Resource Sets
Login to Supersearch and select Theses from the Subject menu for a range of databases with theses listings.
At the Lenton Parr Library
All PhD and Masters theses from the University of Melbourne and Victorian College of the Arts are located in the University of Melbourne Library Catalogue.
For Honours theses ask at Loans Desk
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
Australian Music Centre - a national organisation which makes available information, music resources and publications.
Arts Hub Australia - Online information for Australian arts workers, jobs worldwide, and industry news from Australia and the world. Access via Supersearch. Select "Find Database". Type in "Arts Hub".
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 Lenton Parr 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.