Oxford Music Online
Library computers have full access to the Oxford Music Online. Library members can also get access from home.
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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, and online databases of 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
If you are a library member, you can use your library card number and personal identification number (PIN) to search the full version of Oxford Music Online from home. Find out how to get a PIN for online services.
If you have any problems accessing this database from home, see our help page on how to use the E-library databases.
Library members
Non-members – limited access
