Robinson Music Library provides access to many significant online resources related to the study of music. A comprehensive list of research databases is maintained on the Virtual Library Commons. Online subscription resources can be accessed by Joint Music Program students and others enrolled or employed by CIM through Single Sign On with CIM credentials. Visitor access is also available on Library computers. 

Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University maintains an alphabetical list of electronic resources that can be accessed by Joint Music Program students and those employed by CWRU through Single Sign On with CWRU credentials. Visitor access is also available on Library computers.

Please Note: If you need to move back and forth between CIM and CWRU e-resources during the same research session, it may be simplest to either use two separate browsers (ex: login in to CIM on Chrome and CWRU on Firefox), or keep your main browser window logged in at their preferred institution and use a private/incognito window for the secondary login.

See Library Staff for assistance.

 

Music Research Databases

IPA Source

IPA Source offers a collection of transcriptions and literal translations of opera aria, art song, and Latin liturgical texts. The resource features recordings of selected texts and a guide to resources for the vocal performer. 

Music Index

Music Index database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts covering every aspect of classical and popular music.

Orchestral Music Online

Orchestral Music Online provides information about the instrumentation of over 15,800 works by more than 2,400 composers, and offers details about composers, names of individual movements, and more. See Library staff for the off-campus access code.

Oxford music online

Oxford Music Online, home of Grove Music Online, is an online music encyclopedia, offering coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Grove Music Online offers over 52,000 articles written by over 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe.

RILM full text and Abstracts of Music Literature

RILM is an international bibliography of scholarly writings on music and related disciplines. All scholarly works are indexed (articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues, dissertations, Festschriften, etc.). 

SingersBabel

SingersBabel offers tools to learn the meaning and pronunciation of texts found in oratorios, secular and sacred choral music, cantatas, art songs and song cycles.

The Diction Police

Diction Police provides singers with a comprehensive set of tools for the study and application of lyric diction. Their philosophy centers on hearing the sounds of foreign languages delivered by native speakers who are also professional singers or coaches with a practical understanding of the intricacies of singing language.

Streaming Music/Video Databases

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)

DRAM offers a collection of sound recordings documenting American music. Works can be browsed by work, album or track titles, as well as by artist roles, and date of recording and composition.

Met Opera on Demand

This is an online streaming resource of the Metropolitan Opera, featuring more than 750 full-length Met performances. Features current HD broadcasts as well as historic audio recordings.

music video collection

Music Video Collection is the largest and most comprehensive resource for the study of music. Users experience music through thousands of performances, masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews.

NAXOS Music Library

Naxos Music offers catalogues or selected recordings of over 950 labels, standard and specialist repertoire, over 900 aural training exercises, a Musicology platform for music scholarship, guided tours on classical music eras, audio book transcriptions about the history of classical music and opera with listening examples, libretti and synopses of over 700 operas, a pronunciation guide on composer and artist names as well as musical terms, In-depth analyses of selected works, and more.

Digital Sheet Music

Art Song Transpositions

Explore music for voice and piano (mainly art songs and arias from operas and oratorios), transposed to any key and available for download. If a work is not available on the site or not in the key you desire, you may make up to five new requests per year. On demand publishing of new repertoire is also available during certain times of the year. Learn more.

Henle Library App

Find digitized scores and parts. The latest cloud-based technology, including easy-to-use annotation tools combined with G. Henle Publisher’s reliable urtext for your tablet computer. Download or share to online storage to create your personal, curated library. The ‘Henle Library’ app runs on iPads, on iPhones (iOS 13 and higher) and on Mac computers that contain the Apple silicon chip (M1 and M2). The app also runs on Android tablets and smartphones (Android 5.0 and higher) as well as on Chromebooks. Moreover, you can use the app on Windows 11 computers (using the Windows subsystem for Android and the Amazon App store) and Microsoft Surface tablets (Windows 11).