Databases
Dance Online : Dance in video 
900 hours of video content covering all fields of 20th and 21st century dance (dance history, choreography and improvisation). The collection includes performances, documentaries, interviews and pedagogical videos of performers and companies. It is possible to share videos and create clips.
medici.tv
More than 150 events are broadcasted live each year, in partnership with the most prestigious orchestras and concert halls as well as the most prestigious music festivals and competitions. 3500 musical works filmed from the 1940s to the present day. More than 2500 videos including 965 concerts, 195 operas, 102 ballets, 1139 documentaries and 184 master classes.
Music Online Listening
Streaming database of CD recordings. Features the following collections : American Music, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Jazz Music Library, Popular Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. Makes it possible to Create and share playlists.
Music Video Collection
Streaming database with over 1,600 performances on video, including 200 full-length operas and 75 dance titles, more than 60 master classes, as well as more than 250 documentaries and interviews. Over 250 titles explore a wide range of musical styles worldwide, including jazz, rock, Latin, hiphop etc. Makes it possible to share videos et create clips.
Naxos Music Library
Streaming database of more than 150,000 CDs, from classical music to jazz, film music and world music. About 1,000 new CDs every month. Complete catalogues of the Naxos and Marco Polo labels, as well as complete catalogues or selected titles from the catalogues of more than 800 record companies.
Create your own playlists, access to the Library's playlists. Export / Import playlists
On the move : download the application to your smartphone and follow the user guide.
Philharmonie à la demande
More than 50,000 online resources : 851 video concerts, 2,198 audio concerts, 3,433 concert programmes, 148 multi-media listening guides, 464 documentaries (including meetings with musicians and composers), 125 recorded lectures. The Discovery Pages provide an opportunity to explore the resources of the Philharmonie through an artist's portrait, a work' or instrument's history.
Encyclopaedia Universalis
Dedicated to documentary research, general knowledge and teaching, the Encyclopædia Universalis is the most important French language general encyclopedia and one of the most renowned in the world, equivalent to the American encyclopedia Encyclopædia Britannica.
Music online : The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Comprehensive resource devoted to music research of many of the world's peoples. Each of the 10 volumes contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Includes photographs (of musicians, instruments, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies), maps, musical examples, and links to audio examples. This encyclopedia is included in the Music Reference Collection. The "Browse" option on the left side of the screen allows you to make a quick search by location, cultural groups, subjects, instruments and music genres.
MGG - Musik in Geschichte un Gegenwart
Comprehensive German-language music encyclopedia. Features all content from 2nd edition with continuous updates, revisions and additions. More than 19,000 articles by more than 3,500 authors from 55 countries. Easy toggling between current and older versions of each article. Integrated translation from German into more than 100 languages via Google Translate. By signing up for a user account it is possible to create, save and share notes. Links to related content in RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. The interface is compatible with mobile devices and tablets.
Oxford Music Online
A comprehensive english language music encyclopedia providing access to the Grove Music Online collection comprised by the Grove's various publications : the 2nd edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and a number of articles from the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and the Grove Dictionary of American Music.
Gateway to The Oxford Companion to Music, and the Oxford Dictionary of Music (2nd edition revised).
Dance Online : Dance Studies Collection
Database of digitised dance documents including : monographs, encyclopaedias, archival content, choreographic notes, personal archives, correspondence, photos, periodicals, choreographic notations.
IPM - Index to Printed Music
The Index to Printed Music (IPM) - currently with over 550,000 entries - is the digital finding aid for locating musical works contained in printed collections, sets, and series. IPM indexes individual pieces printed in the complete works of composers, anthologies of music, and other scholarly editions. t provides a comprehensive index of titles, composers, publishers, collections, etc.
Jstor
Database providing access to references to over 10 million scholarly journal articles, e-books and primary sources in 75 disciplines. The Library subscribes to the "Music" collection, which provides full-text access to articles from 77 music periodicals such as 19th-Century Music, Early Music, Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Musical Quarterly, Music Analysis, Revue de musicologie, etc. The latest issues available online are two to seven years old, depending on the agreements between JSTOR and the different publishers.
Titles of the "Music" collection
Music Online : Music Reference Collection
This database includes access to : African American Music Reference, Classical Music Reference Library (including Women Composers: Music through the Ages, Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music), et Garland Encyclopeadia of World Music (full text access to the 10 volumes of the encyclopedia, with links to audio excerpts).
Music Online : Music Periodicals of the 19th Century
Collection de périodiques en texte intégral décrivant la vie musicale américaine de 1838 au début des années 1900. 200 000 pages de documents sont disponibles pour la recherche. Permet d'effectuer une recherche croisée dans le texte intégral de tous les articles avec des vidéos, des enregistrements audio, des photographies, des partitions et des textes de référence.
Oxford Bibliographies - Music
Oxford Bibliographies provides teachers and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in the database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations. Each of the articles listed on Oxford Bibliographies are frequently updated. New entries are added each year (17 for 2019, 7 for 2020).
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
A comprehensive bibliographic database of music literature covering all types of publications. It contains more than one million references, in all languages, from the early 19th century to the present day. This database also includes full-text articles from 240 journals published from the early 20th century to the present day. You have online access to the full-text versions of some 20 titles available in print at the library, such as Early Music, Das Orchester, La Revue de musicologie, etc. Subjects covered : musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, organology, pedagogy, performance, iconography, etc. Updated monthly.
N.B.: by selecting both RAFT and RIPM databases, you will get a chronological coverage from 1759 to the present day.
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
Retrospective bibliographic database of the entire contents of music journals published between 1759 and 1960, in about twenty countries. This database indexes in depth writings on the history and culture of music. The library subscribes to the Annotated Series, which includes : Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (about 250 titles) and Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals with Full Text (full-text access to about 165 titles).
N.B.: by selecting both RAFT and RIPM databases, you will get a chronological coverage from 1759 to the present day.
RISM - Répertoire International des Sources Musicales
RISM's open-access online catalogue contains records of music manuscripts, printed music, libretti and treatises held in music libraries, archives, churches, private collections and other institutions around the world. Most of the manuscripts are between 1600 and 1850. For printed music the dates are up to 1800 for editions of a single composer. For printed collections, editions published between 1500 and 1550. However, older and more recent sources may be found in the catalogue.
The online catalogue includes : Series A/II, Musical Manuscripts after 1600; Series A/I, individual editions before 1800 ; and a part of B/I, Recueils imprimés, 16th-17th centuries (Printed Collections of the 16th and 17th centuries), covering the years 1500-1550. See the RISM website for more information and the Publications page for details of the RISM A, B, C series and the databases in which some of these series are indexed.
RIdIM - Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale
Open-access database of iconography relating to music, dance, theatre and opera. The visual documents and artifacts contained in the database include architecture, performing arts, videos, as well as paintings, drawings and sculptures, all types of techniques and media. The content includes representations of instruments, musicians, performers, music amateurs and patrons, music scores, performance venues, etc.
BabelScores
A dedicated database for contemporary music, this platform provides the complete reading of thousands of recent scores while listening simultaneously to the soundtrack and reading the biographies of the composers.
Music Online : Classical Scores Library
Database of selected music scores from hundreds of publishers, including A-R Editions, Boosey & Hawkes, Breitkopf and Härtel, Donemus, Faber Music, Muzyka, Novello, Universal and Hansen. Consisting in a four volume series spanning all the major genres and periods of classical music from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Complete scores, study scores, vocal scores, etc.
The scores are printable. The interface makes it possible to create folders and share them on the same way as playlists for Music Online Listening. It is also possible to use annotations on the scores and to keep them.
Volume I : classical music, manuscripts and unpublished documents, allowing the study and analysis of more than 25,000 scores. All major classical music categories are included : orchestral, chamber, operatic, vocal, instrumental and choral music. Additional volume : 100 scores from the collection of 17th and 18th century French operas from the Barry S. Brook Center.
Volume II : focusing on major composers of past eras, new compositions from living composers, critical editions of less-known but still often studied compositions, and many unpublished works.
Volume III : editions under copyright of composers from all over the world ; modern editions of major publishers and prominent composers such as Elgar, De Falla, Franck, Brahms and Handel, as well as unpublished scores available for the first time.
Volume IV : 20th and 21st century compositions, providing digital access to some of the most studied works of the classical repertoire as well as some lesser-known composers. Find out more
Guide "Partitions en ligne" de la médiathèque Nadia Boulanger
Non-exhaustive and growing list of resources to help you find scores online: composers, eras, databases, digital libraries, etc.
Daniel's Orchestral Music Online
Orchestral music finder and performance planning tool based on David Daniels' reference book. An essential resource for performers, musicologists, conductors, artistic directors, concert programmers, and orchestral librarians. Information on more than 11,500 works by 1,700 composers. Quick search by composer, title or keyword. Advanced search by duration, instrumentation, choir type and soloists. Links for each work to music publishers and other useful sources. Links to online searchable scores, program notes, recordings, etc.
Musica International
Database focusing entirely on choral music repertoire from all over the world : about 200,000 titles with detailed information, including text, translations, pronunciation, audio files, images, music etc. 26,000 composers, 11,000 authors of texts and 1,800 music publishers of the choir repertoire.