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Grove Music Online
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).
Music Index
Comprehensive source of music article citations, covering decades of research and hundreds of journals.
Music Periodicals Database
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 Abstracts of Music Literature
Online bibliography of citations, listing writings about music in all languages.

Music Theory Online
Music Theory Online, a Journal of Criticism, is the refereed, electronic journal of the Society for Music Theory. Published several times each year, each volume of MTO includes features such as articles, reviews, commentaries, and analytical essays. In addition, MTO publishes announcements of upcoming conferences and calls for papers, a list of job opportunities, and abstracts of recently completed dissertations.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources for the social sciences and humanities.
Oxford Reference Online

Music Online: Classical Scores Library
"...will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores. This release (2010) includes 18,952 scores and 351,509 pages."

Subjects: Music

Tags: analysis, composing, composition, orchestration, theory