Click here for a complete list of NISC's products. MUSE is the world's most extensive collection of bibliographic records focused on music reference and research materials. For serious research on all aspects of music and related disciplines, MUSE is without peer. Scholars have access to all of the world's significant music literature. Musicians can discover writings on specific composers, instruments, theory, recordings, and more.
General readers can search by popular artist, musical genre, and even song title.
All users will find MUSE as enjoyable as it is informative. Over 269,100 abstracts, written and edited by an international staff of music professionals, are drawn from articles, bibliographies, catalogues, journals, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, festchriften, iconographies, critical commentaries to complete works, ethnographic recordings and videos, reviews and more. RILM thesaurus NISC provides very powerful automated searching using the RILM thesaurus , a complete list of over 2,500 official index terms. The thesaurus can be displayed in various ways and is easily navigated. The explode command lets you search narrower terms and even include related terms.