Oxford Music Online

Library computers have full access to the Oxford Music Online. Library members can also get access from home.

What is Oxford Music Online?

Oxford Music Online gives you access to a range of music resources, including the authoritative Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford reference books, music recordings and articles.

You can search more than 45,000 articles on people and places, instruments and techniques, genres and styles:

• full text of the ‘New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians', including the Opera and Jazz editions and all aspects of music worldwide from classical to hip-hop and from baroque to blues
• additional text from the ‘Oxford Companion to Music', and ‘Oxford Dictionary of Music'
• over 20,000 biographies from Mozart to Yo-Yo Ma and Fats Waller
• 3-D interactive images of musical instruments.
• RILM international database of over 400,000 abstracts of music literature
• Classical Music Library and Digital Recordings in American Music (DRAM) databases containing thousands of recordings.

Use Oxford Music Online at home

Use your library card and PIN to sign into the E-library and go directly to the online reference library page.

After you've signed into the E-library, there will also be a link to the 'Online reference library' on the right of every page.

Library members – full subscriber access

• Sign into the E-library

Non-members – limited access

• Oxford Music Online – basic version

Further information

You can find out more about using Oxford Music Online from the Oxford University Press website – short introductions.