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Bibliographies & Reference Works

General

Oxford Music Online (access restricted to MCO-location)
Gives access to Grove Music Online and to The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.

RILM, RIPM and IPM (access via EBSCOhost) (access restricted to MCO-location)
RILM (RILM Abstracts of Music Literature): an international music bibliography with links to books, dissertations, magazine articles, reviews, recordings and publications from 1967 to the present.
RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals): music bibliography with references to magazine articles (Europe and the US) dating from the late 18th to the mid-20th century.
IPM (Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series): bibliography of scores found in collections and music series.

The Music-in-Print Series (access restricted to MCO-location)
Overview of printed music catalogued according to setting and genre: Sacred choral music, Secular choral music, Orchestral music, etc.). Music publisher addresses included.

IDNV (CD-ROM, (access restricted to MCO-location))
Internationale Datenbank für Noten und Verlagsartikel.

Bonner Katalog (CD-ROM, (access restricted to MCO-location))

Genres

Choralnet Repertoire Site
Choral music site. Search functions: composer, choral setting, accompaniment, text and theme.
Opérette, Théâtre musical
Internetpage l'Académie Nationale de l'Opérette (ANAO) Paris. Operetta encyclopedia. Search function: composer and title.
Internet Broadway Database
Information concerning Broadway productions.

Composers and poets (lyricists)

Classical Composers Database
Komponisten der Gegenwart
Digital version of the reference work of the German Composers Association. 
The living composers project
New Music Links (by Thomas Moore)
Information concerning, mainly, contemporary composers.
Stichting Vrouw en Muziek
Information concerning (Dutch) women composers.
The Lied and Song Texts Page
Complete lieder texts. Search functions: composer, poet, title and first line.
Poets' Corner
Complete texts of English poets. Search functions: first line, title, poet and subject matter.
Poésie française
Complete texts of French poets.
Lirama
Complete texts of more than a quarter of a million songs. Also in Dutch.