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Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music) 
Your best online music dictionary/encyclopedia source.  Includes: Grove Music, created from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., plus Grove's Jazz and Opera dictionaries; entries from Grove's forthcoming American Music and Musical Instruments dictionaries; The Encyclopedia of Popular Music; and other Oxford dictionaries.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music 
Combination encyclopedia and bibliography, with articles written by scholars in the field to guide you through research.  Contains selected topics only.

WorldCat FirstSearch 
Worldwide library catalog. Find materials at other libraries worldwide, then borrow them via interlibrary loan.

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Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings
Index to master recordings (matrixes) and published discs made by the Victor Talking Machine Company beginning in 1900.

Index to Printed Music 
Find musical works in scholarly anthologies including Denkmäler, Monuments, and composer's collected works.  The electronic successor to the Heyer/Hill & Stevens Historical Sets, Collected Editions and Monuments of Music.

Music-In-Print Series Online 
Search the online versions of this standard music series on Sacred Choral, Classical Vocal, Orchestral, String, Classical Guitar, Woodwind, Piano Music, and Miscellaneous music in print.  Contains citations only, not music.

Oxford Reference-Performing Arts 
Dictionaries for the performing arts, including theatre, dance, and opera.

Research and Subject Guides
Guides to conducting research, created by ECU Music Library staff.

RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts After 1600 
Annotated index and guide to more then 620,000 music manuscripts by over 22,500 composers in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries.  Most of RISM is found in print in the reference section at MusicLib Ref ML113.I6, but A/II is only available online.  More details.