The main databases for music students are:

• Oxford Music Online - Online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.
• Cambridge Companions to music - collection of over 100 e-books on music topics including composers, instruments and music genres.
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text  - This is the major source for discovering what journal articles (and other material) have been written about (mainly classical) music.
• JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection - This covers around 50 titles full-text but is archival so recent articles are not included. Articles in JSTOR may be effectively searched for though RILM.
• Rock's Back Pages - An archive of reviews, interviews and features from the early '60s to the present day.
• IPA Source - Library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.
• Music Online Classical Scores Library - classical music scores library for digital scores dating from the Middle Ages right up to the 21st century.
• Nkoda - digital library of sheet music.
• Recent Researches in Music Online - Search or browse the eight series, including the middle ages, renaissance, baroque, classical, 19th & 20th centuries, American and oral traditions of music recent researches collections. 
• Sing Up - A song bank, including audio files, lyrics and scores of over 900 items with accompanying curriculum linked resources to support music teaching of children and young people aged 4 to 18 years.

We also have access to online music and video resources:

For more information, please visit the Music Subject Guide. 

If you would like help using any of these resources you can book a tutorial with Emma Brown, the librarian for the Conservatoire or ask at the Library Help Desk.