Music library guide

A list of tailored, credible, good quality materials for your subject. These are the key resources you should be familiar with. Open and explore the links.

Key resources for Music

Nkoda
Digital scores app through which you can find, organise and annotate sheet music. Editions span across solo, chamber, orchestral and vocal music, ranging from Classical to Jazz, Contemporary and Pop.
System requirements: A dedicated app needs to be downloaded prior to using the resource.
For further information on different download links for the app see our Music guide.
Music Online: Premium
Comprehensive database containing streaming audio, video, scores and reference resources.
Naxos Music Library
Online classical music library providing streaming access to a vast number of CDs. Jazz, world music and pop/rock also represented.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Covers a wide range of music publications from 1969 to the present and is updated on a monthly basis.
Oxford Music Online
Provides access to Grove Music Online, the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. Grove Music Online is a music encyclopaedia providing overviews of topics and biographical articles with work lists.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an archival database which includes many of the core research and society published journals in and music as well as in other key fields in the humanities, arts and social sciences.