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Welcome to the Music Guide. Here you will find information about finding scores, books, articles, and other sources of information related to music.

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Art Song Transpositions This link opens in a new window Offers professionally crafted scores of art songs and arias as well as vocal repertoire from operas, choral works, and musical theatre in any key. Users may also request new transpositions if a song they desire is not already available. Terms of Use.
Classical Scores Library (Volumes I-IV) This link opens in a new window Comprehensive coverage from the Renaissance to the 21st century, with full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions. Includes work from famous and lesser-known composers. Terms of Use.
Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window The world’s premier scholarly music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Provides full-text entries written by music subject experts. Terms of Use. Restricted to 3 users at a time.
IPA Source This link opens in a new window International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of musical texts, including opera arias and art songs. Includes Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English. Terms of Use.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window More than 800 Metropolitan Opera performances in streaming HD video. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1936-present.
Naxos Music Library This link opens in a new window An enormous library of classical music recordings. With over 2 million tracks, this is a great resource for listening to obscure works or multiple performances of standard works. Terms of Use.
ProQuest Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window Indexes 400 scholarly and trade journals, magazines, books, and newspapers covering theater, dance, film, television, stagecraft, broadcast arts, storytelling, and more. Terms of Use. Coverage: 1864-present. Restricted to 4 users at a time.

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