Finding a Specific Song or Piece of Music

Starting Points

Classical Music Library

For finding songs. Contains a collection of over 30,000 tracks of music recordings, featuring the world's greatest performers from 26 classical labels.

Oxford Music Online

For finding songs. Comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed., edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).

Articles & eResources

IPA Source

For finding songs and music in collections. IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and solo art songs. Now with over 2000 texts!

Books & Library Materials