LibGuides: Music: Home

Welcome

This guide is a compilation of core music research resources available at CCNY.

Use the online catalog OneSearch to find research resources available at CCNY and CUNY. For details on using OneSearch, check out this handy guide. Request items from other CUNY Libraries using the CLICS service and use interlibrary loan for items not available at CUNY.

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Quick Links (Music A-Z)

Academic Video Online (AVON Alexander Street) This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online (AVON) is a collection of 70,000 videos covering all academic interests. Videos are fully transcribed and indexed. Users can create & share playlists, video clips, and embed content in Blackboard.
Popular Channels Include:
1. Film Platform
2. American History
3. Anthropology
4. BBC Landmark
5. Black Studies
6. CNN
7. Counseling and Therapy
8. Documentaries
9. Music and Performing Arts
10. PBS
11. Science and Engineering
12. SONY Pictures Classics
Format: Streaming Videos
DRAM: Database of Recorded American Music This link opens in a new window A scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from several important labels.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Back issues of scholarly journals in the Arts & Humanities
Search and browse JSTOR citations from a mobile device.

To find out more about mobile apps, visit our Mobile Resources page.

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) Public domain music scores and parts available for download.

Music Index Online This link opens in a new window Index of more than 725 journals and magazines

Music Online: Listening Streaming music collections covering a wide variety of genres

OneSearch This link opens in a new window City College OneSearch combines in one searchable place three things: the CUNY library catalog; a massive index of articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers; and unique digital content from the library. The purpose of a discovery service is to allow patrons to search quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote content while providing relevancy-ranked results in the type of intuitive interface that information seekers have come to expect.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window Premiere source for background information on people, places, terms, instruments and much more.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window Oxford Reference is a database consisting of over 180 reference books published by Oxford University Press covering all areas of knowledge. Oxford Quick Reference contains 125 core subject and language dictionaries, and over 16,000 illustrations, including colour photographs, line diagrams, maps, and tables. The database contains entries that are appropriate for students and researchers at all levels. This resource is limited to five simultaneous CCNY users.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window Offers full-text current and archival articles from 500+ scholarly journals from major university presses
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window Publications on music from around the world, 1967 to present.
RRIMO - Recent Researches in Music Online This link opens in a new window Online access to all titles published in 2018 and later in the seven Recent Researches in Music series
WorldCat This link opens in a new window WorldCat provides complete bibliographic information on nearly all materials published in all subject areas in all languages. It draws its information from the library holdings of thousands of libraries around the world. Included in the database are books, periodicals (but not individual articles), sound and video recordings, electronic resources, dissertations and theses.

Navigate the Music Collection

Floorplans: Music Library

Books and scores are arranged according to the Library of Congress Classification scheme: Class M for Music and Books about Music.

M -- Scores. Scores are shelved in three sections by size: miniature, regular stacks and oversize.
ML -- Books on music literature, history, and criticism. Tip: Check section ML410 for biographies of musicians and composers.
MT -- Books on music theory, composition, pedagogy, and technique for instrumental/vocal study.