Music: Books & eBooks

Information about books, scores, CDs, journals, databases and other useful music resources.

Where in the Library?

Most music books and scores material is held on level 2 of the James Joyce Library

Music Scores are marked in the catalogue as either Music Scores Large (ML) or Music Scores Miniature (MM).

CDs are held behind the Service Desk on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library.

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Books for Music

Books and eBooks are listed in OneSearch, our resource discovery service. Useful titles available via UCD Library include:

Academic Complete (Proquest Ebook Central)
An extensive multidisciplinary collection of online titles covering life, health, social and physical sciences, and humanities.
ACLS Humanities E-Books
This comprehensive electronic library consists of scholarly and peer reviewed books in the humanities.
British Theatre, Music and Literature: High and Popular Culture (NCCO)
Primary sources related to the arts in the Victorian era, from playbills and scripts to operas and complete scores. These rare documents, many of them never before available, were sourced from the British Library and other renowned institutions, and curated by experts in British arts history.

Reference Books for Online

Reference items are helpful for finding background information; definitions and spelling; facts and figures; translations; statistics and topical overviews of subjects. Reference books can be found both in print and online. See here for further information.

Useful online reference material for music include:

Oxford Music Online (OUP)
Oxford Music Online offers a dynamic research tool combining the full text of the 29-volume print edition with the added benefit of sophisticated search capabilities, one-click cross-referencing, and an ever increasing network of web-links to musical sites around the world.
Oxford Bibliographies Online (OUP)
Oxford Bibliographies provides faculty 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 our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (OUP)
Authoritative biographical resource offering access to over 50,000 biographies of distinguished persons from all walks of life who have shaped the lives of the British Isles and beyond. Coverage: from earliest time to 2002. Includes deceased persons only. Powerful advanced search capabilities. Print version available in James Joyce Library at GR920.042/DIC.
Oxford Reference Online (OUP)
Oxford Reference Online consists of a wealth of facts, figures, definitions, and translations found in dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.