Music  

Consolidated catalog of items held by libraries worldwide.

The Richmond Academic Library Consortium is a group of Richmond area libraries which have agreed to extend limited borrowing privileges to students, faculty, and staff of any RALC school.

Via Interlibrary Loan, you can order books, articles, and various items that VCU does not own.

The most comprehensive collection of online music recordings, video and reference on the web. You can access recordings as streaming files or on your mobile devices! Gatewaty to: Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, American Song, Contemporary World Music, Dance in Video, Smithsonian Global Sound, Classical Score Library, African American Music Reference (full text) and more.

From Bach to the blues, this online resource provides authoritative information of all aspects of music world wide, with over 50,000 articles, 28,000 biographies, timelines, advanced search and browse features. Includes The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music and the Encyclopedia of Popular Music.

Guide to articles and literature about music, musicians and the music industry for more than 650 periodicals. Includes reviews and notes first performances and obituaries.

Citations and abstracts to the international music literature. Indexes many foreign-language journals. Includes citations to dissertations and essays in books. Focuses on academic research.

APA Style citation guide.

Easy-to-use web form for generating citations.

Entry point for RefWorks, online citation management software available free to VCU students, staff, faculty, and members of the VCU Alumni Association.

by Lisa Rae Philpott, Music Reference Librarian, Western Libraries, Ontario, Canada