Arthur Friedheim Library

DRAM's primary focus is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace. The collection includes the diverse catalogue of American music represented by the New World Records and CRI label(s), as well as more than 4,000 albums' worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 42 independent labels and archives, with new content being continuously added.

Open-access collection of excerpts of modern dance performances filmed at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Massachusetts.

Kanopy is an online documentary video streaming service distributing films from BBC, PBS, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Educational Resources, and many other production houses. Use Google Chrome for accessing Kanopy on and off campus. Click "Log In To JHU", enter your JHED ID, then press SKIP at the bottom of the page. You do not need to register with your Google or Facebook account.

Streaming access to more than 766,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI.

Music Online: Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.

Produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.

Music Online: Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent. The database will contain 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.

Music Online: Popular Music Library contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, metal, punk, new age, R&B, reggae, rock, soundtracks and many more.

The world´s largest online classical music library. Naxos offers streaming access to more than 111,420 CDs with more than 1,634,700 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. iPhone/iPod and Android mobile apps available. Use access code JHUNML16QMX to download.

Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collection of Jazz music available online. It offers over 206,600 tracks of jazz from more than 17,390 albums. Over 12,000 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises the catalogues of Blue Notes Records, 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz and over 200 other labels.

Open-access collection of filmed dance performances in many styles.

Dance performances, interviews, and other programming in video or audio; digitized still images and documents pertaining to dance and dance history. Some items are restricted to use on-site at the New York Public Library.

Co-founded by music legend Quincy Jones and jazz impresario and producer Reza Ackbaraly, Qwest TV launched the world’s first subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) platform dedicated to jazz and related music on December 15, 2017. In its first year, Qwest TV has grown from a beta version of the platform to a full-fledged news media featuring articles written by international journalists and jazz experts, free of charge and accessible to all.
For access: Click the Sign In link, search for Johns Hopkins University, and click the green log in button.

An online archive of contemporary music, dance, performance art, and publications. Content encompasses a "rather unorthodox mix of pure, art, and pop dance forms."

With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online contains The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006).

Music Index™ is a comprehensive guide to music periodicals and literature from 1970 to present. The Music Index Online contains cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts of articles about music, musicians, and the music industry for more than 480 periodicals, as well as book reviews, obituaries, news, and selective coverage for more than 200 periodicals.

The International Repertory of Music Literature/Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is a comprehensive bibliography of writings about music from books, journals, online resources, dissertations, and more. RILM has over 600,000 records with abstracts in 214 languages from 151 countries.

RIPM Jazz Periodicals contains periodicals published exclusively in the United States of America. The jazz collection in supplies access to many publications that ceased to appear in the twentieth century.

The Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals/Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM) provides access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music.

The Performing Arts Database, formerly the International Index to Performing Arts (IIPA), is a comprehensive guide to the journal literature on performing arts--drama, theater, dance, film, television, and more--searchable together for the first time in one electronic database.

Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.

Classical Music Reference Library brings together more than 40,000 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.

Hofmeister XIX is an on-line, searchable version of the Hofmeister Monatsberichte for the years 1829-1900. Containing some 330,000 records of music publications, it is the most extensive resource for establishing what was published where and when during that period. Records are linked to facsimile images of the Monatsberichte on the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library) website.

Website listing vocal and orchestral music by composers of the African diaspora (defined as composers throughout the world descended from people of West and Central Africa) in searchable database. Some entries for works include links to additional information or resources. Composer entries include biographical notes.

Online database of scores from active contemporary composers around the globe. Subscribers have access to a limited number of downloads.

Specializes in choral music that is in the public domain (or is otherwise made available by the rightsholder) and can be freely downloaded. Scores are available in PDF format, with some titles available in other formats including MIDI, Finale, Encore, and Noteworthy. Site also includes MIDI sound files, texts, translations, and information about composers.

Classical Scores Library contains over 30,000 copyrighted and public domain musical works. Publishers of in-copyright material include Boosey and Hawkes, Leduc, Faber, Breitkopf & Härtel, Peters, Ricordi, and Universal. Full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions are available.

The Contemporary Music Score Collection is published by the UCLA Music Library and includes digital, open access scores from the Contemporary Score Edition series, and scores from the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores.

IPM includes music from ancient Greek times to the present. Content is searchable by composer name or ID, editor, genre, language, librettist, format, publisher name, series, title, instrumentation and/or number of instruments, and results can be limited by genre and/or language.

Maison ONA is an independent publishing house for new music. Established and based in Paris since 2013, Maison ONA supports artists by publishing a unique catalog of scores, artist books, limited editions, music paper, resources, events and more. Discover resources by either Composer or Catalog and use "Read" to view the online scores, or listen to the streaming sound.

Recent Researches in Music Online is a subscription service for libraries, providing online access to the complete content of the seven A-R Editions Recent Researches in Music series.

Provides singers with a comprehensive set of tools for the study and application of lyric diction. The philosophy of this database centers on hearing the sounds of foreign languages delivered by native speakers who are also professional singers or coaches with a practical understanding of the intricacies of singing language.

IPA Source is the web's largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 5863 texts including 1040 aria texts.

Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists. Orchestral Music Online provides access to information on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers.

RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources) aims to comprehensively document the world's musical sources of manuscripts or printed music, works on music theory, and libretti stored in libraries, archives, monasteries, schools and private collections. RISM - Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 contains more than 657,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries.

With more than 2 million entries, Dissertations and Theses is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Full text of dissertations from 1997 forward is available.

An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines