Music: Dictionaries

A general reference source that includes Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. The library also has 2 print sets of the latest edition of New Grove Dictionary of music (shelved at 780.3). 'Campus' username and password required off campus.
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Brings together a variety of essential music reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Includes: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Bibliographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music.
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Full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 700 articles) searchable all together for the first time with associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.

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African American Music Reference includes over 4,000 essays and images from over 120 sources and over 34,000 pages covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

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Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library contains biographical information on major composers and artists; score and lyric excerpts, plus musical and notational terms; and photographs and images of people, instruments, and ensembles.

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