A comprehensive online encyclopedia of music including biographies, places, terminology, and musical genres. Includes updates of printed texts:
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd ed.
REF. TABLE ML100 .N48 2001 (28 v. + index)
The standard and largest comprehensive music encyclopedia in English, with coverage of music history, theory and practice, musical terminology, the music of various locations, an outstanding selection of biographies, musical examples, and more extensive coverage of non-Western and folk music, with an index of ethnomusicological terms. Many composer entries include lists of works.
New Grove Dictionary of Opera
REF. TABLE ML102.O6 N5 1992 (4 v.)
A nearly comprehensive opera reference work featuring extensive coverage of composers, singers (with numerous but brief entries), conductors, librettists, poets, stage designers, producers, directors, dancers, managers, patrons, impresarios, and other involved in the opera world. Includes entries on operas and operettas (listed by title of original language), opera houses, terminology, opera traditions, etc. Most entries include bibliographies; many composer entries include work lists.
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 3rd ed.
REF. TABLE ML 102.J3 N48 2002 (3 v.)
Includes over 2000 biographies, major essays on topics such as dance, cultural meanings of jazz in films, poetry, and women and styles such as acid jazz, disco, hip-hop, reggae, and smooth jazz.
* New Grove Dictionary of American Music
REF. TABLE ML 101.U6 N48 1986 (4 v.)
The principal reference work on American music and musicians, broadly considered, with concise articles summarizing works for lesser known persons, and broad, illustrated pieces with works lists and lengthy bibliographies for well-known persons. In-depth coverage of popular styles and genres includes entries for important popular groups, descriptions of uniquely American musical instruments, and historical sketches of musical publishers.
* New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments and Instrument Makers
REF. TABLE ML102 .I5 N48 (3 v.)
Copiously illustrated source, unique in its genre, this work contains scholarly articles on western and non-western, historical and modern instruments, their makers and performance practices. The extensive cross references, linking articles and terms to one another, compensate for the lack of an index by culture or region.
* New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers / Sadie & Samuel
REF ML105 .N38 1995
Entries on 875 women composers of Western classical music, with international coverage, include biographies and analysis of works, but no musical examples. Most entries include works lists and a bibliography. Includes a chronology of women's musical achievements.
* International Encyclopedia of Women Composers / Cohen. 2nd ed.
REF ML105 C7 1987 (2 v.)
Provides brief biographical coverage, with lists of works, for almost 6,196 women composers. Extensive bibliography of works about women composers and a sizable discography. An appendix lists composers by country and century.
* Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians. 8th ed.
REF. TABLE ML 105.B16 2001 (6 v.)
Baker's is the most authoritative and extensive biographical dictionary in English. Its primary emphasis is on musicians and musical figures in the world of art music, but entries from jazz, rock, country, blues, and other popular music genres are also included. Bibliographies and works lists are included with many entries.
* Contemporary Composers / Morton & Collins
REF. TABLE ML390.M677 1992
Biographical dictionary with international coverage of 494 working composers, provides information on composer's nationality, birth date, education, awards, posts held, and mailing address. The work lists, organized by type of composition, include information on instrumentation, date of composition, publisher, discography, critical assessment and analysis, and completion and/or premiere date and place.
* Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4th ed.
REF. TABLE ML 100.H37 2003
The standard reference work in English for nonbiographical musical information on all musical topics. Harvard emphasizes the historical approach and Western art music, with more limited coverage of non-Western and popular topics. Articles include basic bibliographies, musical examples, and illustrations.
* Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
REF. TABLE ML 100 .G16 1998 (10 v.)
Organized by geographical region with indexes in the back of each volume. This is the first encyclopedia to cover the music of all the world's peoples: Africa - South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean - The United States and Canada - Southeast Asia; - South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent - The Middle East - East Asia: China, Japan and Korea - Europe - Australia and the Pacific Islands - The World's Musics: General Perspectives and Reference Tools.
Each volume is devoted to a single region and includes contributions from anthropologists, linguists, dance ethnologists, cultural historians, folklorists, literary scholars, and musicologists, composers and performers. The tripartite arrangement of each volume proceeds from broad general issues to specific music practices. Includes bibliographies, discographies, filmographies, and indexes.
* Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music / Larkin
REF. TABLE ML102.P66 G84 1992 (4 v.)
Chiefly biographical, this source covers a wide international range of popular music, with focus on music types and genres not covered in other traditional reference sources. Entries are alphabetical arranged, with bibliographies, discographies, substantial cross-references, and indexes.
* Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre / Gänzl
REF. ML102.M88 G3 2001 (3 v.)
This required resource for any musical theatre collection contains prose entries on the principal musicals, creators, and performers in the leading capitals--Paris, London, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Budapest, even Sydney and Melbourne. Provides plots, critical quotes, and Gänzl's often quirky opinions. His coverage of composers and works is better than his coverage of performers. Discographies are brief, and bibliographies are nearly absent. The illustrations include spectacular posters, sheet music covers, and costume designs vying for attention with standard stage and studio photographs.
* Music Reference and Research Materials : an Annotated Bibliography / Duckles & Reed. 5th ed.
REF. TABLE ML113.D83 1997
An annotated and classified list of over 3,000 music related sources, comprehensive and international in scope, with entries for names, titles, and subjects alphabetized in one index". Includes such topics as ''Dictionaries and Encyclopedias,'' ''Discographies and Related Sources,'' ''Catalogs of Musical Instrument Collections,'' and ''Research Methods, Editing, and Writing.''
* Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music : a Guide to their Contents / Heyer. 3rd ed.
REF. TABLE ML113.H52 1980
Indispensable guide to the contents of 1300 scholarly anthologies and collected works of music. Entries provide full bibliographic information and list contents of individual volumes. Provides numerous cross-references and an extensive index of composers, editors, and titles.
* Analyses of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-1985 / Wenk
REF. TABLE ML113.W45 1987
5,664 entries by 2,400 authors are arranged alphabetically by: composer - by genre or by work for composers having more than 10 entries - by author - alphabetically by title, for multiple entries of a single author. Entries contain the composer's name, the title, the author of the analysis, and the source of the analysis. The list of abbreviations serves as a bibliography of sources for the analyses.
* Music Analyses : an Annotated Guide to the Literature / Diamond
REF. TABLE ML128.A7 D5 1991
4600 annotated citations from books, articles, and dissertations describe the analytical literature in English on Western art music. Arranged by composer, then by work, this classified bibliography of sources includes an index.
* Musical America. International Directory of the Performing Arts.
RESERVES ML12.M8 2006
Contact information for orchestras, dance and opera companies, choral groups, festivals, music schools, competitions, publishers, etc. Focus is primarily on North America.
* Directory of music faculties in colleges and universities, U. S. and Canada / College Music Society
RESERVES ML13.D57 2004/2005
Listing of music faculty by institution and instrument. Institutional information includes address, website, contact information, degrees offered, and accrediting organization. Includes instrument indexes and complete general index.
