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- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowThe most comprehensive English language music encyclopedia in the world.
*Note: if you have any trouble accessing Oxford Music Online from the link above, please use this link: https://klnpa-wcu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01SSHELCO_WCHESTER/blold8/alma9918812672103573
- African American Music ReferenceAfrican American Music Reference will contain 50,000 pages of text and 17,000 pages of liner notes that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
- Classical Music Reference Library This link opens in a new windowSearch essential reference materials covering the entire history of Western classical music from the Medieval period to the 21st century. Includes Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.
(Alexander Street Press)
Can be cross-searched with other Alexander Street music databases in Music Online - Daniel's Orchestral Music Online This link opens in a new windowBrowse and find information on composers, instrumentation, opera arias, duets, choruses and more.
- Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology (DDM) is an international database of bibliographic records from the American Musicological Society for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology, as well as in related musical, scientific, and humanistic disciplines.
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by
First published in 1992, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is the largest project ever undertaken for the subject. This authoritative biographical encyclopedia of rock, pop, and jazz artists covers popular music from 1900 to the present, including folk, blues, world music, rock, heavy metal, techno, reggae, and hip hop. Edited and largely written by Colin Larkin, it is exhaustive, meticulous, authoritative - and incredibly fun to read. Critically lauded in its previous three editions, the Fourth Edition will not disappoint fans seeking authoritative and reliable information about popular music from around the world. Expanded to ten volumes, the new edition contains 6,000 new entries, and extensive revisions and updates throughout, yielding 50% more material than the 1998 Third Edition. In addition to thousands of biographical entries, this A-Z reference also includes entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record lables, venues, and festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system. From Grateful Dead to The Killers, from Whitesnake to White Stripes, from R.E.M. to Blink-182, from The Jazz Singer to Jerry Springer - The Opera, and from Bye Bye Birdie to Rent, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Fourth Edition has something informative and clever to say about everyone's favorite band.
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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia
This book aspires to be at once a guide to the world of opera, prepared under the auspices of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and a compendium of information specifically related to the Metropolitan Opera, its history, repertory, and performers.
