Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon

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.

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.

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

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.

Maison Ona

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.