Music

Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online)

• the leading online resource for music research
• scholarly encyclopedia articles covering  classical, opera, jazz, popular music, etc.
• composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres
• contents:
  • Grove Music Online: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, including updates
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed., Colin Larkin, ed.: popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev., Michael Kennedy, ed.: 12,500 entries covering musical subjects of all kinds
  • The Oxford Companion to Music, Alison Latham, ed.: a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music / Bruno Nettl, et al., eds.

• a comprehensive survey of world music organized in ten volumes by continent
• MILLS Music Reference (4th floor) ML 100 .G16 (10 volumes)

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians / Stanley Sadie, ed.

• print version in Mills Music Reference (4th floor) ML 100 .N48 (29 volumes)

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada / Helmut Kallmann, et al., eds.

• 4000 articles on all aspects of music in Canada

Harvard Dictionary of Music  / Don Michael Randel, ed.

• general source for terms, definitions, instruments, periods
• MILLS Music Reference (4th floor) ML 100 .A64

Baker's Dictionary of Music / Nicolas Slonimsky; Richard Kassel, ed.

• 1,171 pages of musical definitions and brief biographies
• MILLS Music Reference (4th floor) ML 100 .S635

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians / Nicolas Slonimsky; Laura Kuhn, ed.

• 6 volumes of useful and reliable compact biographies of musicians of all ages and nations
• includes lists of composers' works and bibliographies
• MILLS Music Reference (4th floor) ML 105 .B16

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World / John Shepherd, et al., eds.

• a seven volume guide to world music industries organized by continent
• MILLS Music Reference (4th floor) ML 102 .P66 C66 (7 volumes)

 New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments / Stanley Sadie, ed.

• articles on Western and non-Western musical instruments, historical and modern, their makers, and performance practices
• bibliographies of additional source materials on specific instruments
• MILLS Music Reference (4th floor) ML 102 .I5 N48