Research Guides: Music: Home

Welcome to the Music Research Guide!

Welcome to the Music Research Guide, a portal to music resources available through the library and on the web.

Quick Links

Oxford Music Online
Access to 30,000 articles about composers, musicians, genres, instruments, etc.
Naxos Music Library
Includes the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks. Accessible on and off campus by signing on with netid and password. Subscription limits to 5 simultaneous users.
Petrucci Music Library (IMSLP)
Over 214,000 free scores in the public domain. Largest public domain sheet music repository in the world. Site adheres to Canadian copyright.
How to Search for Music Materials in the Online Catalog
Walkthrough guide detailing search strategies and tips for using MSU's library catalog when searching for music.

Image Credits

Home: Bartolemeo Bettera's (1639-1688) A lute, cello, violin, guitar, musical manuscript, and books draped on a table

Find Articles: Lyre bannister for a music chair

Find Scores: Wagner Tristan opening

Reference: New Grove by Alton

Music Websites: 1) Hieronymus Bosch's (c. 1450-1516) Concert in the egg - detail ; 2) Chiave di violino

Copyright: 1) Derivative of Red copyright ; 2) Derivative of Copyrighted grey and passage from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 Op. 106 (Breitkopf & Haertel edition, 1862-90) made available in the public domain by IMSLP

Music Education: Jean-Honore Fragonard's (1732-1806) The Musical Lesson

All other images are website logos used in accordance with fair use.