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Bibliographies -
Jazz discography
  
Coverage: 1896-
General discography of all categories of recorded jazz, from 1896 to today. Covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including
Traditional, Swing, Bop, Modern, Avant-Garde, Fusion, Third Stream, etc. Usage info: Licensed for 2 simultaneous users.
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Bach Bibliography
An international listing of books, articles, research papers, theses and dissertations, websites,and other information about Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Bibliographie de civilisation medievale
Coverage: 1958-
A comprehensive, current bibliography of monographs worldwide relating to the medieval period of the Western, Byzantine and Islamic world. Covers history,
language and literature, philosophy and theology, art history, archaeology, and more. Access info: Click on "Enter databases", then select Bibliographie de civilisation medievale
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Doctoral dissertations in musicology
Coverage: Description based on Nov. 6, 1997 version.
Index to dissertations in progress and a bibliography of completed dissertations reported since mid-1995.
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emusicquest
Created from the former Music-in-Print series, this is a searchable online database of information about published music in print. Includes "Choral Music
In Print,'" "Classical Guitar Music in Print," "Classical Vocal Music in Print," "Orchestral Music in Print," "Sacred Choral music in Print," "Secular Choral Music in Print;" "String Music in Print;" and "Woodwind Music in Print." The listings are dependent on reporting by publishers, and it is estimated that the database actually includes about 25% of what is available in U.S. music stores and that about 20% of what is listed is actually "out-of-print." Use with great caution.
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Information on music;
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .M33 H23 1975
Coverage: v.1-v.3
This work is an older and less comprehensive work than Music Reference and Research Materials, but it has a wider scope of materials from which to choose.
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International directory of contemporary music. Instrumentation.
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 118 .I45
Coverage: 1996/1997
Includes complete lists of works by composers who have joined the Contemporary Music International Information Service arranged by medium of performance.
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Music reference and research materials :
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .D83 1997
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .D83 1997
This work is the standard for research resources about music. Each item has an extensive annotation reviewing and rating the type of information included
and its usefulness and rating the work against similar works. It is essential for any scholarship in music.
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Orchestral music online
The online version of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists. Information on more
than 6700 works by some 900 composers. Allows searching by composer, title, keyword, duration, instrumentation, chorus type, and soloists.
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Oxford bibliographies online. Music
OBO Music offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on musicology and ethnomusicology. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
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RISM. Series A/II. Music manuscripts after 1600 (EBSCO)
"an international, annotated bibliography, which aims to document the world's musical sources of manuscripts ... produced after 1600 ... found in over
750 libraries and archives in 31 countries."--EBSCO description. Usage info: Licensed for one simultaneous user.
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Biographies -
Oxford music online
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary
Call Number: REF GEN ML 105 .C593 1996
Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary / Gene Claghorn.--Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1996. This work lists only women
composers and lyricists and includes some persons omitted in American song lyricists, 1920-1960
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Brockhaus Musik :
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 100 .B76 2001
A superb and comprehensive dictionary of music (in German). It also includes biographies of both major and some minor composers.
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Classical Net
This index lists those composers for which there is a dedicated page at this site that may include a biography, recommended works, recommended recordings,
and other related reviews and articles. It is not meant to be a comprehensive index of every occurance of a certain composers name at the site, nor is every composer represented in some manner at this site listed here.
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Grosses Sangerlexikon /
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 105 .K83 1997
Coverage: Bd.1-Bd.6
This is the finest and most complete biographical index for singers of all ages. Although it is in German, the text is useful for everyone.
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Grove music online (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Internationaler biographischer Index der Musik :
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 105 .In96 1995
Coverage: [Bd.]1-[Bd.]2
In German. This is perhaps the most extensive index to short biographies about living musicians of all types.
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Oxford companion to music (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Oxford dictionary of music (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Soviet composers
Composers who lived and worked in the former Soviet Union in the period 1918-1990 (Internet Edition compiled [privately] by Onno van Rijen). Entries include
photo, biographical data, and lists of compositions.
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Dictionaries -
Brockhaus Musik :
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 100 .B76 2001
A superb and comprehensive dictionary of music (in German). It also includes biographies of both major and some minor composers.
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Handworterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie.
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 108 .E29
Coverage: Ordner 1-Ordner 6
In German. This work is issued in small segments, but each word, idea, or concept has an extended and highly scholarly description and definition. This
is essential for any research involving a term or concept that has been written about yet.
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IPA source
Provides access to a growing collection of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and solo art songs.
Search by composer, poet, or title; browse by opera aria or Latin text.
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Music titles in translation :
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 111 .H7
This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
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Popular titles and subtitles of musical compositions /
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .B39 P663 1975
This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
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Terminorum musicae index septem linguis redactus =
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 108 .T4 1978
This work is very useful for translating any musical term to English or for finding the equivalent of a term in English. Compares terms in Latin, German,
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, and Russian.
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Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary
Call Number: REF GEN ML 105 .C593 1996
Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary / Gene Claghorn.--Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c1996. This work lists only women
composers and lyricists and includes some persons omitted in American song lyricists, 1920-1960
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World biographical index of music : composers, conductors, instrumentalists and singers
Call Number: MUSRF ML 105 .In96 1995
Internationaler biographischer Index der Musik :Komponisten, Dirigenten, Instrumentalisten und Sänger = World biographical index of music : composers,
conductors, instrumentalists and singers / mit einem Geleitwort von Kurt Dorfmüller.--München ; New Providence : K.G. Saur, 1995.--2 v. In German; an extensive index to biographies about musicians of all types.
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Directories -
Baxter's violin and bow makers database
Call Number: HESB GEN ML 802 .B39 2002
Contains fully searchable information including names, dates, places, and values as well as information about viola, cello, doublebass, early Lute, viol,
and gamba makers and bow-makers. With "write-mode," users may add their own information to the database.
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Canadian pop music encyclopedia
The Canadian pop music encyclopedia For Canadian popular music, by the same people who created the Encyclopedia of music in Canada
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emusicquest
Created from the former Music-in-Print series, this is a searchable online database of information about published music in print. Includes "Choral Music
In Print,'" "Classical Guitar Music in Print," "Classical Vocal Music in Print," "Orchestral Music in Print," "Sacred Choral music in Print," "Secular Choral Music in Print;" "String Music in Print;" and "Woodwind Music in Print." The listings are dependent on reporting by publishers, and it is estimated that the database actually includes about 25% of what is available in U.S. music stores and that about 20% of what is listed is actually "out-of-print." Use with great caution.
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International directory of contemporary music. Instrumentation.
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 118 .I45
Coverage: 1996/1997
Includes complete lists of works by composers who have joined the Contemporary Music International Information Service arranged by medium of performance.
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Encyclopedias -
Oxford music online
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Classical music reference library
"reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are ... Baker's Dictionary of Music,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music ... coverage of all classical genres ... definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists."--About.
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African American music reference
Provides access to "... text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse
history and culture of the African American experience through music." Covers "... blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression."--About the database.
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Classical scores library
"... database of classical scores, representing the major composers output, spanning all genres and time periods from the Western classical canon." "...
indexed to enable users to search on musically relevant fields, such as composer, work/opus number, key, genre, instrument, time period; as well as score-specific fields, such as score type, duration, editor, arranger, publisher."--About.
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Garland encyclopedia of world music online
Music research of all the world's peoples. Searchable full text of the 10-volume print encyclopedia (originally published in 1997). Provides overview of
a geographic region, a survey of its musical heritage, and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Includes images and audio examples.
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Smithsonian global sound for libraries
Online music audio collection "produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, ... a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural
traditions."--Homepage.
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Brockhaus Musik :
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 100 .B76 2001
A superb and comprehensive dictionary of music (in German). It also includes biographies of both major and some minor composers.
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Canadian pop music encyclopedia
The Canadian pop music encyclopedia For Canadian popular music, by the same people who created the Encyclopedia of music in Canada
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Encyclopedia of music in Canada
The National Library of Canada presents an online version of the 1992 second edition of "The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada." The encyclopedia is offered
in English and French. The work includes bibliographies, lists, and discographies on Canadian musicians and music. A list of contributors' names and abbreviations used in the encyclopedia is available.
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Encyclopedia of popular music
"... all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
... entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. ... along with complete discographies ..."--Home page.
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Grove music online (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Handworterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie.
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 108 .E29
Coverage: Ordner 1-Ordner 6
In German. This work is issued in small segments, but each word, idea, or concept has an extended and highly scholarly description and definition. This
is essential for any research involving a term or concept that has been written about yet.
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Index of Gregorian chant
Call Number: MUSRF GEN ML 102 .C45B8 REF GEN ML 102 .C45B8
An index of Gregorian chant / compiled by John R. Bryden and David G. Hughes.--Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1969.--2 v REF GEN ML 102 .C45B8 MUSRF
ML 102 .C45B8
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Oxford companion to music (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Oxford dictionary of music (see Oxford music online)
Provides a single gateway to access cross-searchable, full-text Oxford music reference subscriptions and products, including Grove Music Online, Oxford
Companion to Music, and Oxford Dictionary of Music.
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Worship music : a concise dictionary
Call Number: REF GEN ML 102 .C5W67 2000
Worship music : a concise dictionary / Edward Foley, editor ; Mark Bangert ... [et al.], consultants.--Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, 2000.
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Guides and finding aids -
Information on music;
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .M33 H23 1975
Coverage: v.1-v.3
This work is an older and less comprehensive work than Music Reference and Research Materials, but it has a wider scope of materials from which to choose.
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Music titles in translation :
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 111 .H7
This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
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Popular titles and subtitles of musical compositions /
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .B39 P663 1975
This work is an important guide to translating the title of a piece of music as you remember it into the "real" title.
Handbooks and manuals -
Music reference and research materials :
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .D83 1997
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .D83 1997
This work is the standard for research resources about music. Each item has an extensive annotation reviewing and rating the type of information included
and its usefulness and rating the work against similar works. It is essential for any scholarship in music.
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Reviews (book, film, etc.) -
Academic search premier (EBSCO)
Coverage: 1975-
"multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles."--Provider description.
Indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 journals. Search can be limited to book reviews.
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Expanded academic ASAP
Coverage: 1980-
Provides indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for 3,500+ scholarly journals and general interest periodicals embracing all academic disciplines
(citations only for The New York Times). Search can be limited to book reviews.
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Music reference and research materials :
Call Number: HESB MUS ML 113 .D83 1997
Call Number: HESB MUSRF ML 113 .D83 1997
This work is the standard for research resources about music. Each item has an extensive annotation reviewing and rating the type of information included
and its usefulness and rating the work against similar works. It is essential for any scholarship in music.
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