Music & Dance Library

Music Index - Articles on popular and classical music in more than 800 music periodicals of many countries, c. 1970 to the present.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text. A comprehensive music bibliography, early 20th-century to the present.

Music Periodicals Database - Indexing and abstracts for several hundred music periodicals from 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals.

• Classical Music Library

  More than 950,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI. Browse by discipline, release date, language, label, performer.
• Naxos Music Library (Classical)

  Includes among other labels the complete Naxos, Marco Polo, and Dacapo catalogs: c.1.6 million tracks of classical, world, folk, and Chinese music.
• Naxos Music Library (Jazz)

  c.100,000 tracks of jazz, and rhythm/blues.
• Jazz Music Library

  The largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available on line — thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, genres.
• DRAM - Database of Recorded American Music

  American music largely ignored by commercial recording companies. CDs, LPs, broadcast tapes, archival recordings. Based on the catalogs of New World and Composers Recordings, Albany Records, Artifact Recordings, Cedille Records, Cold Blue Music, Deep Listening, Frog Peak Music, Innova Recordings, Mutable Music, Pogus Productions, and XI. Full liner notes, scholarly articles, other research materials.
• American Song

  Historical collection of songs by and about miners, immigrants, Native Americans, slaves, children, pioneers, cowboys. Included are songs of Civil Rights and other political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and anti-war protests.
• Smithsonian Global Sound

  Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the archival collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon, and other labels. Includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music at Rhodes University and material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology.
• Contemporary World Music

  Reggae, worldbeat, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, neo-traditional, African film, Bollywood, Arab swing and jazz, and other genres such as traditional music — Indian classical, fado, flamenco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku.
• 歴史的音源 Japanese Historical Recordings Collection (Rekion)

  Compiled by the Recording Industry Association of Japan, in cooperation with the National Diet Library, the collection consists of approximately 50,000 digitized recordings from 1900 to 1950. A fraction of these recordings are available to the public through the National Diet Library Online Collections, but most of the material is only available through libraries that have been granted special access. Click here for blog posts about the Collection. Accessible only from the Rekion workstation in Room 206.
• Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

  Includes audio examples.

• Met Opera on Demand. More than 550 full-length Met performances, in addition to telecasts from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, and hundreds of historic radio broadcasts back to 1935.


• Dance in Video. Two volumes. Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.


• Medici.tv. A collection of c.1600 classical music videos: concerts, operas, ballets, archives, documentaries, artist profiles, educational programs.


• Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall. Hundreds of Berlin Philharmonic concerts, as well as interviews and documentaries. Live video stream of c. 40 Berlin Philharmonic concerts each year.


• Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam. Concerts by one of the world's premiere ensembles.


• Jacob's Pillow Dance. Jacob's Pillow is a dance center and school in Becket, Massachusetts. It is the oldest internationally acclaimed summer dance festival in the United States.


• Films on Demand. More than 20,000 titles and roughly half a million video segments.


• Kanopy. More than 26,000 documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines, including music and dance. Titles from the DEFA Film Library, ArtMattan Films, HBO, Frameline, Ruscico, Pragda, the BBC, Flicker Alley, National Film Board of Canada, First Run Features, Cinema Libre Studio, New Day Films, and the Criterion Collection/Janus Films.


• On the Boards. On the Boards theater is located in Seattle, Washington. Founded by artists in 1978, On the Boards introduces audiences to artistic innovators who are defining the future of dance, theater, and music on stage in Seattle and on the global screen.


• Classical Music in Video. More than 1,500 performances by leading orchestras, chamber music and vocal ensembles, and solo artists, together with masterclasses and interviews.


• Opera in Video. More than 500 hours of opera performances, including staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.


• Ethnographic Video Online. Three volumes. A comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.

For music/dance students:

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For music/dance faculty:

To place items on reserve for your course, phone or email Jarod Ogier, at 292-8498 or ogier.5@osu.edu. Please allow two days' processing time, particularly at the start of a term.

Please note that we have a large collection of miniature (study) scores in multiple copies. We have six to eight copies of most items, and at least three of each, and sometimes as many as twenty, depending on the work. They circulate to individual members of a class as well as to teachers.

Microform materials are available whenever the Music & Dance Library service desk is open.

J.S. Bach :  works in manuscript (Musikhandschriften der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz) – ML134.B2 S73 1997 Microfiche fiche1-1913

Reproductions of manuscripts and copies of works by Johann Sebastian Bach, his sons, and other members of the Bach family, held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Each part is accompanied by a user guide. Suppl. 1: material currently held in the Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Kraków. Suppl. 2: material returned from Kiev, now on deposit with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Microfiche A 1-258; B 1-1347 - Suppl. 1. Bestände der ehemaligen Preussischen Staatsbibliothek. Depositum Universitätsbibliothek Krakau. Microfiche A S1-9; B S1-5 - Suppl. 2. Die Bach-Sammlung aus dem Archiv der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin. Depositum Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Microfiche S2 1-294

Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv – ML120.G3 K3

550 microfilm reels containing approximately 3,500 titles, chiefly documents in Renaissance and early Baroque music found in German libraries. A guide to the contents, Katalog der Filmsammlung, is available. 

History of Music : Reproductions of early printed music and books on music in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard University [microfilm] – ML136 .C3 H33 1985 microfilm

107 microfilm reels, together with a printed guide: History of music: a guide to the microfilm edition : based on Music in Harvard libr aries, a catalogue of early printed music and books on music in the Houghton Library and the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, by David A. Wood. ML136 .C3 H33 1985 Guide

Italian music manuscripts in the British Library – M2 .I826 microfilm

283 microfilm reels.  The British Library's large collection of manuscripts of Italian music of the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries has been divided into four sections corresponding to significant periods. Composers have been placed in the section to which significant examples of their work belong.

• Section A, c.1640–c.1720: Cesti, Carissimi, Reggio, Benevoli, Colonna, Melani, L. Rossi, Giovanni Bononcini, G.B. Bononcini, Steffani, Caldara, Pollaroli, Perti, others.
• Section B, c.1720–c.1740: Durante, Alessandro Scarlatti, Leo, Porpora, Vinci, Marcello, Hasse (here regarded as Italian), Pergolesi, Geminiani, Feo, others.
• Section C, c.1740–c.1770: Auletta, Cafaro, Pietro Guglielmi, Latilla, Jommelli, Bertoni, Tartini, Contumacci, Fenoglio, Galuppi, Perez, J.C. Bach, others.
• Section D, c.1770–c.1820: Cimarosa, Zingarelli, Trento, Bianchi, Viotti, Anfossi, Paisiello, Mayr, Piccinni, Rossini, Salieri, Giardini, and, notable among composers of music other than opera, Dragonetti. Click here for details.

Mozart: works in manuscript (Musikhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz und aus der Jagiellonischen Bibliothek in Krakau. Teil IV. Die Mozart-Sammlung) – ML136.B5 S7374 2005 Microfiche fiche1-1163 

Reproductions of holographs and manuscript copies of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Each part is accompanied by a user guide containing indexes by microfiche number, manuscript number, and opus number. Parts 1, 2, 3/1, and 3/2 are early manuscript copies of Mozart's works. Parts 4 and 5 are works in Mozart's handwriting.

Music manuscripts from the great English collections – M2 .M635 microfilm

994 microfilm reels. Chiefly consists of unpublished music manuscripts from c. 1500 to c. 1900. A guide and description are available for each series. Click here for details.

• Series I (113 reels):  Music collection of the Bodleian Library, Oxford 
• Series II (87 reels):  Music collection of St. Michael's College, Tenbury
• Series III (60 reels):  Music collection of Christ Church, Oxford 
• Series IV (291 reels):  Music manuscript collection of the British Library, London
• Series V (159 reels):  Music collection of the Royal College of Music, London 
• Series VI (142 reels): Music collections of the Cambridge Libraries 
• Series VII (66 reels): Music collection of the Royal Academy of Music, London 
• Series VIII (53 reels): Gerald Coke Handel collection 
• Series IX (23 reels): Music manuscripts from chapel and cathedral libraries

Tutors and méthodes from the Fétis Collection at the Bibliothèque royale Albert Ier, Brussels [microform] – ML128.I64 T87 1989 Microfilm 

A set of c. 200 music tutors (books of instruction) from the collection of François Joseph Fétis, the distinguished 19th-century musician and scholar. The books range from a 1523 lute tutor to instructions on playing the banjo, the viol, various keyboard, wind, and percussion instruments, and the guitar. A printed guide, with index, is available on our Reference shelves: ML128.I64 T87 Guide. 

Our public areas are open 24/7. During Summer Term, our service desk and reserves are available Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. During term breaks, our service desk and reserves are available Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and by appointment, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.

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Music & Dance Library faculty and staff are always ready to help you. Ask us!

Alan Green (Head, Music & Dance Library) 614-292-2319 green.200 @osu.edu 

Sean Ferguson 614-688-0127 ferguson.36@osu.edu 

Jarod Ogier 614-292-8498 ogier.5@osu.edu 

Michael Murray 614-292-2319 murray.348@osu.edu

Gretchen Atkinson 614-292-2319 atkinson.6@osu.edu