Vocal Resources

Resources for Voice students, including vocal repertoire, Singing Technique, Translations & Diction, Voice Pedagogy, and how to locate scores, audio, and video.

Music Reference

Oxford Music Online: Grove Music Online
Comprehensive music reference resource and logical starting place for biographies, definitions, or information on almost any musical topic. Coverage includes classical music, opera, popular music, jazz, folk, and world music from many cultures and countries. Most articles offer bibliographies, and articles on composers provide detailed lists of works.

Provides access to Grove Music Online, which includes the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Opera; New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; Oxford Companion to Music and Oxford Dictionary of Music. Only a few people can use this database at one time.
Music and Performing Arts Online (Alexander Street)
Cross-searches thirteen music and performing arts collections from Alexander Street, including thousands of classical music scores, streaming music tracks in a variety of genres, and major music encyclopedias and dictionaries.

The following databases are included:
Music Online: Classical Scores Library (Alexander Street)
Provides access to over 24,000 of the most important classical music scores for compositions from the Renaissance to the 21st century. Includes full scores, study scores, piano and vocal scores, and piano reductions of pieces.

This database can also be cross-searched with other music databases in Music Online.

Libraries in the Arts Building at UTSA

The Arts Building houses both the Piano Pedagogy Library and the Music Ensemble Library. The collection in the Piano Pedagogy Library includes piano scores and a teaching repertoire geared toward those who will teach piano to others. The collection is arranged by subject.

The Music Ensemble Library, located on the main floor of the Arts Building, supports all choral and instrumental ensembles by organizing individual parts and conductors' scores. The library is staffed by music majors who catalog and register new music, prepare existing scores for rehearsals, and sort and shelve music following performances.

For more information about the Piano Pedagogy or Music Ensemble Libraries or the Music Department, please contact the Music Department at (210) 458-4354.