Key Reference Sources: Music
| The following are some of the important print & electronic resources in the area of music. They are particularly valuable for gaining a basic knowledge of a broad subject category, definition of terms and biographies of major figures. |
Biographical | Chamber Music | General Sources | Genres (Jazz, Choral, Rock, Folk, Musicals) | Opera
| Author | Title | Call Number |
| GENERAL SOURCES | New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Ref. Coll.: ML100 .N48 2001 [Music Library] |
| Grove, George, Sir | Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Ref. Coll.: ML
100 .G8863 1955 |
| Duckles, Vincent H. | Music Reference and Research Materials : an Annotated Bibliography | Ref. Coll.:ML113 .D83 1997 |
| The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML100 .N6 1988 | |
| Morehead, Philip D. | The New American Dictionary of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML100 .M857 1991 |
| Randel, Don Michael | The New Harvard Dictionary of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML100 .R3 1986 |
| Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music | ONLINE: Oxford Reference | |
| Latham, Alison | Oxford Companion to Music | ONLINE: Oxford Reference |
| Concise Oxford History of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML160 .A27 | |
| New Oxford History of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML160 .N44 | |
| Kennedy, Michael | The Oxford Dictionary of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML100 .K35 1994 |
| The New Oxford Companion to Music | Ref. Coll.: ML100 .S37 1983 | |
| The New Grove Dictionary of American Music | Ref. Coll.: ML101.U6 N48 1986 | |
| Hoffman, Miles | The NPR Classical Music Companion | ONLINE: NetLibrary |
| Slonimsky, Nicolas | Music since 1900 | Ref. Coll.: ML197 .S634 1994 |
| Kuhn, Laura | Music Since 1900 | Ref. Coll.: ML197 .S634 2001 |
| Burbank, Richard | Twentieth Century Music | Ref. Coll.: : ML197 .B85 1984 |
| Griffiths, Paul | The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th-Century Music | Ref. Coll.: ML197 .G87 1986 |
| Marcuse, Sibyl | Musical Instruments; a Comprehensive Dictionary. | Ref. Coll.: ML 102 .I5 M37 |
| Room, Adrian | A Dictionary of Music Titles : the Origins of the Names and titles of 3,500 Musical Compositions | Ref. Coll.: ML102.T58 R66 2000 |
| Strahle, Graham | An Early Music Dictionary : Musical Terms from British Sources, 1500-1740 | Ref. Coll.: ML108 .S88 1995 |
| Carter, Henry Holland | A Dictionary of Middle English Musical Terms | Ref. Coll.: ML 108 .C3 |
| Stainer, John | A Dictionary of Musical Terms | Ref. Coll.: ML 108 .S75 |
| Barber, David W. | Better Than It Sounds: A Dictionary of Humous Musical Quotations | ONLINE: NetLibrary |
| Barlow, Harold | Dictionary of Musical Themes | Ref. Coll.: ML 128 .I65 B3 |
| BIOGRAPHICAL | Who's Who in Opera | ONLINE: ON ORDER |
| Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians | Ref. Coll.: ML105 .S612 1997 | |
| The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music | Ref. Coll.: ML105 .H38 1996 | |
| New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers | Ref. Coll.: ML105 .N67 1995 | |
| Contemporary Composers | Ref. Coll.: ML390 .M677 1992 | |
| Anderson, E. Ruth | Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary | Ref. Coll.: ML390 .A54 1982 |
| Baker, Theodore | Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | Ref. Coll.: ML105 .B16 2001 |
| Claghorn, Charles Eugene | Women Composers And Songwriters: A Concise Biographical Dictionary | ONLINE: NetLibrary |
| Floyd, Samuel A. | International Dictionary of Black Composers | Ref. Coll.: ML105 .I5 1999 |
| GENRES | ||
| The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz | Ref. Coll.: ML102.J3 N48 1988 | |
| McRae, Barry | The Jazz Handbook | Ref. Coll.: ML105 .M455 1989 |
| Feather, Leonard | Biographical Dictionary of Jazz | Ref. Coll.: ML102.J3 F39 1999 |
| Fordham, John | Jazz | Ref. Coll.: ML3506 .F67 1993 |
| Burns, Ken | Jazz [videorecording] | Media Center: ML3508 .J378 2000 |
| Piazza, Tom | The Guide To Classic Recorded Jazz | ONLINE: NetLibrary |
| Stambler, Irwin | Encyclopedia of Folk, Country, & Western Music | Ref. Coll.: ML102.F66 S7 1983 |
| Stambler, Irwin | Folk and Blues : the Encyclopedia | Ref. Coll.: M1629.S73 F6 2001 |
| Mulvaney, Rebekah Michele | Rastafari and Reggae : a Dictionary and Sourcebook | Ref. Coll.: BL2532.R37 M84 1990 |
| New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll | Ref. Coll.: ML102.R6
R64 1995 2002 ed on order |
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| Hardy, Phil | Encyclopedia of Rock | Ref. Coll.: ML102.R6 H37 1988 |
| Logan, Nick | The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock | Ref. Coll.: ML102.R6 L63 1982 |
| Stambler, Irwin | Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock & soul | Ref. Coll.:ML102.P66 S8 1977 |
| Shaw, Arnold | Dictionary of American Pop/Rock | Ref. Coll.: ML102.P66 S5 1982 |
| Gänzl, Kurt | The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre | Ref. Coll.: ML102.M88
G3 1994 2002 edition ON ORDER |
| Hischak, Thomas S. | The American Musical Theatre Song Encyclopedia | Ref. Coll.: ML102.M88 H59 1995 |
| Bloom, Kenneth | American Song : the Complete Musical Theatre Companion | Ref. Coll.: ML128.M78 B6 1985 |
| Lewine, Richard | Songs of the American Theater: a comprehensive Listing of More than 12,000 Songs | Ref. Coll.: ML 128 .S3 L53 |
| DeVenney, David P. | The Broadway Song Companion | ONLINE:
NetLibrary Print: ML128.M78 D48 1998 |
| Kupferberg, Herber | Book of Classical Music Lists | Ref. Coll.: ML63 .K88 1985 |
| Pallay, Steven | Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music | Ref. Coll.: ML113 .P34 1987 |
| OPERA, CHORAL, SONGS | The Lyric Opera Companion : the History, Lore, and Stories of the World's Greatest Operas | Ref. Coll.: MT95 .L97 1991 |
| Bourne, Joyce | Who's Who in Opera : a Guide to Opera Characters | Ref. Coll.:ML102.O6
B68 1998 ONLINE: Oxford Reference |
| Freeman, John W. | The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas | Ref. Coll.: MT95
.M49 1984 V2: MT95 .M491 1997 |
| Kobbé, Gustav | The Definitive Kobbé's Opera Book | Ref. Coll.: MT95 .K52 1987 |
| Warrack, John Hamilton | The Oxford Dictionary of Opera | Ref. Coll.: : ML102.O6 W37 1992 |
| Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera | ONLINE: Oxford Reference | |
| The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia : a Comprehensive Guide to the World of Opera | Ref. Coll.: ML102.O6 M47 1987 | |
| Smith, Eric L. | Blacks in Opera : an Encyclopedia of People and Cmpanies, 1873-1993 | Ref. Coll.: ML102.O6 S6 1995 |
| Bryden, John | Index of Gregorian Chant | Ref. Coll.: ML 102 .C45 B8 |
| DeVenney, David | American Choral Music Since 1920: an Annotated Guide | Ref. Coll.: ML128.C48 D45 1993 |
| Ferguson, Gary | Song finder : a title index to 32,000 popular songs in collections, 1854-1992 | Ref. Coll.: ML128.S3 F47 1995 |
| Sears, Minnie | Song Index | Ref. Coll.: ML 128 .S3 S31 1966 |
| Lax, Roger | The Great Song Thesaurus | Ref. Coll.: ML128.S3 L4 1989 |
| Cobbett, Walter Willson | Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music | Ref. Coll.: ML 1100 .C7 1963 |
| Secrist-Schmedes, Barbera | Wind Chamber Music | ONLINE: NetLibrary |
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