Music: Beginning Your Research

Oxford Music Online is a collection of multiple music reference resources. The database includes the full content of Grove Music Online (on which the collection is primarily based), The Oxford Dictionary of Music, which supplements Grove's more-extensive articles with content geared toward undergraduates and general users, and The Oxford Companion to Music, which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms, genres, and individual works. Also included is the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, a biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists, covering popular music from 1900 to the present. All content in the database can be searched or browsed using a number of filters and categories.

This listing provides access to a collection of language and subject reference works which the Marriott Library has purchased through Oxford University Press. The collection is cross-searchable and can also be browsed by title or entry. Users can retrieve over 2 million short and long subject reference entries (many of which are illustrated), bilingual dictionaries, English dictionaries, quotations, and proverbs. Patrons may also sign up for a (free) personal account which will allow searches and other research information to be saved between sessions.