Music History

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Check this resource for composers' biographies; scroll-down to the END of ANY article to find the bibliography (list of articles and books, listed oldest-newest - newest articles at the bottom of all articles). Large topic bibliographies may be organized by genre/era.

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.

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.