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This is a very good starting point for music research.

Use Virtual Reference Library for getting the basics of any subject (history, key figures, key terms, fundamental concepts) - including music (don't forget to use Oxford Music Online as well).

Oxford Music Online is the gateway offering users the ability to access and cross-search multiple music reference resources in one location. With Grove Music Online as its cornerstone, Oxford Music Online also contains The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), which offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd edition (revised 2006), which supplements Grove's more extens

The most comprehensive resource available in its field, Humanities Full Text brings you full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of the most noted scholarly sources in the humanities, as well as numerous lesser-known but important specialized magazines. The database indexes, abstracts and delivers the full text of feature articles, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, original works of fiction, drama, and poetry, book reviews, and reviews of ballets, dance programs, motion pictures

There are 83 journals in JSTOR specific to the study of music.

100% full-text, user-friendly online access to a comprehensive selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE's online journal collections support a diverse array of research needs. Our journals are heavily indexed and peer-reviewed, with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields, including music. MUSE is also the sole source of complete, full-text versions of titles from many of

This database has thousands of articles on all kinds of music and all kinds of related subjects.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.