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Internet Resources
 

     Music History 102: A Guide to Western Composers and Their Music from the

     Middle Ages to the Present – http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/

     Worldwide Internet Music Resources:  Composers –      http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/composer.html

     DW3 Classical Music resources –

http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html

     The Classical Music Navigator – http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm

     Dr. Estrell’a Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers –

http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/index.html

Books

Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

     Author:  Baker, Theodore

     Holdings:  Reference ML105 .B16 1984

 

Baker's Dictionary of Music

    Author:  Slonimsky, Nicolas

    Holdings:  Reference ML100 .S635 1997

 

Concise Edition of Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

     Author:  Baker, Theodore

     Holdings:  Reference ML105 .B16 1994

 

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

    Author:  Scholes, Percy A.

    Holdings:  Reference ML100 .S367

 

Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music

     Author:  Cross, Milton and David Ewen

     Holdings:  ML385 .C7

 

Encyclopedia of Folk, County and Western Music

     Author:  Stambler, Irwin and Grelun Landon

     Holdings:  Reference ML102.J2 S78

 

Harvard Dictionary of Music

    Author:  Apel, Willi

    Holdings:  Reference ML100 .A64 1969

 

Music Lovers' Encyclopedia

    Author:  Hughes, Rupert

    Holdings:  Reference ML100 .H892 1950

 

Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography

    Author:  Duckles, Vincent H.

    Holdings:  Reference ML113 .D83 1992

 

New Grove Dictionary of American Music

     Author:  Hitchcock, H. Wiley and Stanley Sadie

     Holdings:  Reference ML101 .U6 N48 1986

 

New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

     Author:  Kernfeld, Barry

     Holdings:  Reference ML102.J3 N48 1994

 

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

    Author:  Stanley Sadie

    Holdings:  Reference ML100 .N48 2000

 

New Oxford Companion to Music

    Author:  Arnold, Denis

    Holdings:  Reference ML100 .N5 1983

 

Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

     Author:  Sadie, Julie Anne and Rhian Samuel

     Holdings:  Reference ML105 .N66 1994

 

NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Library

    Author:  Libbey, Theodore

    Holdings:  Reference ML156.9 .L5 1999

 

Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music

     Author:  Clarke, Donald

     Holdings:  Reference ML102.P66 P5 1990

 

Pianist’s Dictionary

     Author:  Hinson, Maurice

     Holdings:  Reference ML102.P5 H46 2004

 

Sourcebook for Research in Music

    Author:  Crabtree, Phillip D. and Donald H. Foster

    Holdings:  Reference ML113 .C68 1993

 

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