Music: Indexes & Databases

Over 1,000 arias and ensembles, indexed by title, opera, language, composer, voice type, range, keyword, and whether there is a translation or text available.

A database of songs licensed by ASCAP in the United States. Entries includes names of songwriters and contact information for publishers, as well as artists who have recorded the song commercially.

Biography (Gale In Context) delivers outstanding research support with 600,000+ biographical entries, on more than 528,000 individuals, spanning history and geography. This database is a curriculum-aligned resource that offers media-rich content that's updated daily. In it you'll find. biographies from award-winning Gale reference, multi-media content like videos, images, magazines and newspapers, current historical information and topic pages covering the highest-interest features.

BMI's catalog of millions of musical works along with names of songwriters, composers, and publishers. Search by title, artist, composer/songwriter, or publisher.

Including more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world, Grove Music Online is the unsurpassed authority on all aspects of music.

From the Oberlin College Libraries and Sing Out!, an index of over 2,000 anthologies of traditional songs, mostly English-language, with nearly 43,000 entries.

Music Dictionary Online's primary purpose is, in the case of non-English words and phrases, to offer translations and, more generally, and where appropriate, to offer explanations and comments about general (non-musical) words as well as specialist (i.e. musical, etc.) terms that might be found in musical scores, libretti, books on music, web sites, CD notes, concert programmes, etc.

An open music database and search engine for finding and identifying melodies. Includes popular and classical music.