Research Guides: Music: Home

Performing Arts Librarian

Scott Stone

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Langson Library 464

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Subjects: Dance, Drama, Music

Essential Music Resources

WATCH

Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
Streaming video of concerts, operas, ballets, music documentaries, and masterclasses with globally famous musicians. Content is regularly updated as it normally includes performances from European music summer festivals and annual music competitions.

LISTEN

Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window
Stream music from major classical record labels, such as Sony Classical. Music is primarily focused on Western art music (i.e., classical music), but some music from non-Western traditions can also be found here. Useful factual information can be found in the digitized liner notes to better contextualize the music you are listening to.

RESEARCH

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Selectively indexes scholarly writings about music occurring in journals, books, dissertations, festschrift, conference proceedings, and other similar publications. Primarily focused on Western art music, but one can locate some interesting literature related to musical theater also. Indexes writings that were published from early-20th century to the present.

FACTS & BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Contains several important resources including New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Use this site to find biographies of composers and performers. Also important for the complete works listings of each composer providing essential information for program notes.

CONNECT

If you're researching off campus then you will need to login to the UCI VPN for authentication through the campus network. There are three different methods: Software, Web, and Mobile. Software takes a little more time to setup the first time, but it works with all resources. Web is known to not work well with many of the streaming media resources.