This project offers free online access to new early music scores produced by leading experts. Different music notations available.

The collection of German sound recording media dates back to the beginning of sound recording production in the 19th century; the sheet music collection goes back to 1943.
The site also offers a list of links on musicology.

Large collection of medieval music manuscripts: English polyphony up to 1550 and European polyphony till about 1450. Contains both complete manuscripts (particularly from the UK) and fragments.

Contains more than 125,000 song descriptions. Most of the song texts are in Dutch, Flemish and Frisian. Sometimes songs in other languages have been included, like French, German and Latin, when these were sung in the Netherlands. The Dutch Song Database runs from Middle Ages through the twentieth century. Each collection or repertoire has its own kind of songs and sources, and its own percentage of completeness.

More than 300 volumes of 16th-century music from the British Library, digitised from microfilm. The volumes mainly consist of partbooks of vocal polyphony, but also include some early printed tablatures for keyboard or plucked string instruments. They include music printed in Italy, Germany, France and England. All books have extensive descriptions, including references to RISM B/I.

Archive of American and British journals in the entertainment industry, such as Variety, Billboard, Musical Express, American Film. Full text until 2000.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

is a cloud-based digital research environment designed to support Digital Humanities research and easily create, manage, organize and share content sets. If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl). It is also possible to add text-files (.txt) to the Lab yourself. You need an account with Google or Microsoft to make use it. Je

Encyclopedia on all fields of musicology. Grove Music Online offers many search facilities, including searching for information in bibliographies and in worklists.

On-line, searchable version of the Monatsberichte (1829-1900) started by Friedrich Hofmeister (1782-1864). Catalogues of printed music, largely from the German-speaking world. Records are linked to facsimile images of the Monatsberichte on the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) website.

The Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM) is an interdisciplinary, multifaceted database of manuscripts and printed books that are relevant to the Alamire Foundation's research and activities. It therefore especially focuses on the musical heritage of the Low Countries from the early Middle Ages until 1800.

The Knowledge Base Patronage Studies contains published research by scientists and master's students from Dutch universities. Patronage studies investigates giving relationships between artists and benefactors.

Descriptions of reviews and of articles in the field of music and music history from approximately 700 international music journals. From 1979 onwards.
You can search for cited references of publications, but your results will be limited to Music Index itself.

Catalogue of the complete collection of classical and popular cds and lps in the Central Record Library in Rotterdam. You can borrow a large amount of musical albums for free. Information (in Dutch) under digitaal lenen.

Catalogue of classical and popular sheet music. Contains also a large number of titles of arrangements.
The sheet music of over 5,000 works in different genres (choral works, light music, salon music, classical music, (signature) tunes and arrangements) can be downloaded and printed via Muziekschatten. Of a number of works, not just the score but also the parts may be printed.

Overton is a search engine that helps to find millions of policy documents from all countries and in all languages by subject, title, organization and more. The full texts are also searchable. Overton also allows users to see, track and analyze mentions of publications and other research output in policy documents.
NB This is a one-year license, to be evaluated at the end of 2022. Please send your experiences and suggestions to library@uu.nl.

History of western classical music, related to key events of the time. By Richard Taruskin. With selected links to Grove Music Online.

Encyclopedia on all fields of musicology. This database contains Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford Music Online offers many search facilities, including searching for information in bibliographies and in worklists

This database contains works of art related to music. RIdIM offers many search options, including musical instruments, musical compositions, composers and other persons, artists, title of work, medium and Iconclass.

This international music bibliography gives references (with abstracts) to books, dissertations and journal articles as well as to reviews of books, sheet music editions and sound recordings. Covers the period 1835- the present.

This international database contains references to articles, published between 1800 and 1950, on musical history and culture.

Fulltext search facilities in about 120 jazz periodicals published in the USA between 1914 and 2006. New journals are added regularly.

Inventory of musical sources, put together by the Répertoire International des Sources Musicales. Contains music manuscripts, treatises, and libretti. Gives locations of sources in several hundreds of libraries and archives.Includes RISM’s publication Series A/II (Music Manuscripts after 1600).
Search help and list of abbreviations under the question mark in the search screen.

Rock's Backpages is the largest database of music journalism online, featuring almost 50,000 articles on thousands of artists from Aaliyah to ZZ Top. We've been going for over 20 years and work with hundreds of writers to archive their work for students, researchers and plain old music-lovers.

Archives Biographiques Françaises is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from more than 600 biographical sources, published between 1647 and 2013.

Catalogue of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Biographical Archive of the Benelux (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) is part of World Biographical Information System Online and contains articles from almost 200 biographical sources, published between 1581 and 1998.

Explore the British Library: circa 14 million records for the Library's holdings of books, journals, newspapers, conferences, maps, scores etc.
See also: All online British Library catalogues.

Cambridge Histories Online contains over 290 handbooks on American and British history, economic history, general history, ancient history, history of science, history of the book, language and linguistics, literary studies, music, philosophy, political and social theory, regional hisory, religious studies, theatre and performing arts, and warfare.

Catalogue of the digital publications of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Contains full-text books, newspapers, journals and dictionaries, as well as images, sound recordings and sheet music.

This encyclopedia (with nearly 2000 entries) provides information about theatre and performance from ancient Greek theatre to the latest developments. In addition to performances in playhouses, it covers dance, opera, radio, film, television, and popular performance, including carnivals, circus, and public executions. Entries range from short definitions of terms to lengthy considerations of genres and movements.

JSTOR offers full-text access to an archive database of ca. 700 English-language journals in various disciplines. All volumes (including the earliest) are available and can be searched in full text; the most recent years are not included in this archive due to copyright. Collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III, V en VII, Business, Collection Ireland, Ecology and Botany, Health and General sciences, Language and Literature.
If you are interested in text mining options, please contact the library (library@uu.nl).

National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System.
Narcis is the national portal for scientific information including (open access) publications from the Dutch repositories, data sets from a number of data archives, and there are descriptions of research projects, researchers and research institutes included.

Contains approximately 3,500 popular vocal and instrumental titles from the 1830s to the end of the century. Works belong to the UNC-Chapel Hill Music Library.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories. OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

Encyclopedia covering the European middle ages in a broad sense: history, society, religion, and culture, as well as archeology, medicine and music. All entries are supported by up-to-date bibliographies.

Oxford Reference brings together language and subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, quotations and reference works across various subject areas into a single cross-searchable resource.

Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to a selection of ca. 500 of a total of over 4,000 e-books published by Oxford University Press, in the humanities, economics, law, and political science.
Ample search facilities due to keywords and abstracts at both book and chapter level. The UBU link enables you to find the printed books in the catalogue.

Bibliography of Latin texts written during the Renaissance and later that are freely available to the general public on the Web.