Journal Articles and Streaming Databases for Music

• African American Music Reference African American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages offering the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression.
• American Song American Song is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more.
• Classical Music Library Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. The growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks includes recordings from the world's greatest labels, including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox, and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
• Classical Music Reference Library Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which are available for the first time in electronic form.
• Classical Scores Library Classical Scores Library will contain 400,000 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores.
• Contemporary World Music Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database contains important genres such as reggae, worldbeat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music, Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more.
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.
• Humanities International Complete Articles about film and media studies, folklore, literature, performing arts, and cultural studies.
• Jazz Music Library Jazz Music Library will be the largest and most comprehensive collection of jazz available online, with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
• JSTOR (Journal Storage) Scholarly articles in over 150 academic journals. Articles date from the 1800s up to a "moving wall" of between one and eight years before the present. Coverage includes the arts, business, general science, the humanities, and social science.
• Music Online Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource, cross-searching all of Hampshire library's Alexander Street Press music databases (African American Music Reference; American Song; Classical Music Library; Classical Music Reference Library; Classical Scores Library; Contemporary World Music; Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online; Jazz Music Library; and Smithsonian Global Sound). 
• Oxford Music Online Online version of the twenty-nine-volume set of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes), and the Grove Dictionary of Jazz (3 volumes).  
• RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature) International scholarly articles, books, dissertations, concert reviews, films, and videos. Topics include music, dance, dramatic arts, and voice. 1969 to present.
• Smithsonian Global Sound A streaming media archive that contains folk music from all over the world, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Reviews

• General Reference Center
• Lexis Nexis Academic (includes text from the New York Times, 1980--present)
• New York Times 1851-2004

Websites for Music

• Andante A major source of free classical music information on the web, especially CD and performance reviews. Note that the links under Reference--to New York Review of Books, Concise Grove, etc.--are not free.
• DW3 Classical Music Resources Links to scholarly biographical and historical sites on all musicological periods, and to international and regionally-oriented sites. From Duke University.
• Ethnomusicology, Folk Music, and World Music Good start to find Internet resources in ethnomusicology. Created by the University of Washington Music Library.
• I Hear America Singing New site from the Library of Congress, giving access to their music and performing arts collections: historical material, sound recordings, photographs, sheet music, and moving images.
• Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music An index to The Johns Hopkins University's wonderful trove of American sheet music published between 1780 to 1960. In the case of music printed before 1923, the cover and music itself can be retrieved and downloaded.
• Red Hot Jazz Archive Early jazz history, prior to 1930.
• Worldwide Internet Music Resources Links to musicians and musical organizations worldwide. Created by the Indiana University Music Library.