Music Since 1900

Covering over 700 periodicals in all styles and genres of music, the Music Index cites book reviews, obituaries, new periodicals, and news and articles about music and musicians.

An attempt to index all significant music literature from 1967 to the present, supplemented by selected records going as far back as the 16th century, RILM provides a citation and usually an abstract for over 1,000,000 books, articles, dissertations, and other writings.

Through BW's subscription, you can get an account with nearly unlimited access to the New York Times and its archive.

A very large, multi-disciplinary periodical index with lots of full text available. Valuable for music research, particularly because of its currency, which is much better than either Music Index or RILM Abstracts.

A vast storehouse of high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship. Not always easy to search so you may be better off starting with other databases.

An enormous database of library holdings in all formats from around the world. Very helpful for locating items that are not in OhioLINK.

Click above for quick instructions on how to access Ritter Library databases from off-campus.

Grove is the premier English-language encyclopedia of music. It includes signed articles, works lists, and bibliographies on 20,000 composers, locations, periods, instruments, terms, and other subjects.

Search the full-text of music reference titles including Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.

A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples.

African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages of text and 17,000 pages of liner notes that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

A service that provides translations and phonetic (IPA) transcriptions of thousands of songs and arias.