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Oxford Music Online
The online version of Oxford Music Online contains the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which is a great place to start your music research!
The same resource also includes the the Oxford Dictionary of Music, New Grove Opera, New Grove Jazz, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
Search for broad categories: composer name, genre, city, etc.
All Reference Sources in Catalog
Music Research Resources
Encyclopedias & General Dictionaries
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New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Ref ML 100 .N48 -
Oxford Companion to Music
Ref ML100 .S37 2002
Dictionaries of terms and subjects
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Harvard Dictionary of Music
Ref ML100 .A64 2003 -
Oxford Dictionary of Music
Ref ML100 .K35 2006
Biographical dictionaries
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Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Ref ML105 .B16 2001
Dictionaries of special topics (examples)
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Instruments
Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary
Ref ML 102 .O6 N5 1992 -
Jazz
New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
Ref ML102.J3 N48 2002 -
Opera
New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Ref ML 102 .O6 N5 1992
Bibliography by topic (instrument, music genre, etc)
· Found in Ref ML128
Bio-Bibliographies, Research Guides, Thematic Catalogs
· Found in Ref ML134 (browse by composer last name)
Music Online
- Music Online: Music and Performing ArtsAllows cross-searching of audio, video, scores, and full-text reference content in African American Music, American Song, Classical Music Library, Contemporary World Music and Smithsonian Global Sound. Covers classical, jazz, world, and American music. Delivers audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, Biography, and images through a single interface.
Dance Resources
- Dance Online: Dance Studies CollectionCollection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials that supports informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance. Presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library.
- Performance Design Archive OnlineTheatre students and researchers can see "behind the scenes" of the world's greatest dramatic performances. This international collection covers all aspects of theater production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup. Bringing together essential books and periodicals, archival material, and specially commissioned instructional videos, the collection will cover design concepts for a broad range of performance types, including dance, theatre, opera, and music.