Encyclopedias
- Grove Music OnlineArticles on composers, performers, scholars, genres, cultural groups, area studies, music history, and music theory, with bibliographies and composers' works lists. Part of Oxford Music Online; other titles in this database are The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music.
- Garland Encyclopedia of World Music OnlineEach volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Also available in print: Loeb Music: ML100.G16 1990 Seeger Room.
- RILM Music EncyclopediasA full-text, international collection of current and historical music encyclopedias (1775-present), covering major people and topics in historical musicology and ethnomusicology, plus specialized encyclopedias dedicated to popular music and musical theatre, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, recorded sound, and women composers.
- Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.)Articles on American art music and composers, popular music, musical genres, and cultural groups, with bibliographies, and composers' works lists. Some, but not all, of the articles are available in Grove Music Online. Complete volumes in print: Loeb Music Aldrich Room: ML101.U6 N48 2013.
- Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der MusikThe premiere German music encyclopedia. MGG is divided into two series: Sachteil, containing subject articles, and Personentiel, containing articles about people.
Dictionaries
- On Music DictionaryA basic, online dictionary of musical terms, with pronunciation guides.
- Harvard Dictionary of MusicArticles on musical genres, history, instruments, and theory. Loeb Music Aldrich Room: ML100 .H37 2003 (and other locations).
Bibliographies
- Oxford Bibliographies: MusicExtensive, annotated bibliographies on subjects in musicology and ethnomusicology, including composers, genres, regions, and areas of study.