Music History

Contains signed articles on people, places, genres, instruments, etc. Most composer articles have works lists, which serve as indexes to that composer's Collected Works; extensive bibliographies (organized from oldest to newest).

Since 1949 the Music Index has been an invaluable resource for finding articles on music topics, whether in magazines, newspapers, or book chapters. Despite its roots as a CITATION INDEX, there are articles in PDF, and link-outs to subscribed articles via the "Get it at Western" icon.

A music journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular.

RILM is an ultra-scholarly resource for Music research. International and multilingual, RILM contains CITATIONS only, with brief English-language annotations. Serious music historians start with RILM.

RIPM provides access to CITATIONS for music literature, pre-RILM. It is a retrospective index to music periodicals published from 1800-1950.

Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource directs researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.