The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians / ed. by Stanley Sadie.  2^nd ed.  29 vols.  ML100 .N48 2001

The authoritative, exhaustive, current printed dictionary of music.

 The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians online / ed. by Stanley Sadie.   Available from Databases menu on the Library homepage.

The electronic version of the “Grove” includes entries from the printed Grove opera and jazz dictionaries as well as the complete text of the printed 29-volume set.  It is copiously illustrated, with many musical examples and links to other web sites of scholarly interest.

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik.  (MGG)  20 vols. (1994- ) ML100 .M92 1994

Extended scholarly articles.  Musical subjects are treated in 8 Sachteil and Register volumes.  Biographies (Personenteil) are treated in 12 separate volumes.  The Sachteil volumes omit brief definitional entries such as are found in the New Grove Dictionary. 

The new Grove dictionary of jazz / ed. by Barry Kernfeld.  2^nd ed. ML102 .J3 N48 2002

 The New Grove dictionary of opera / ed. by Stanley Sadie.  

4 vols.  ML102 .O6 N5 1992g

The New Grove dictionary of American music / ed. by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie.  4 vols.  ML101 .U6 N48 1986

The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments / ed. by Stanley Sadie.  3 vols.   ML102 .I5 N48 1984

The encyclopedia of popular music / comp. & ed. by Colin Larkin.  3^rd ed.  8 vols.  ML102 .P66 G84 1998 

Baker’s biographical dictionary of musicians.  8^th ed.  ML105 .B16 1992

Brief biographies with bibliographies and lists of works.

The new Harvard dictionary of music / ed. By Don Michael Randle.  ML100 .N485 1986

Brief articles by specialists.

Music reference and research materials : an annotated bibliography / by Vincent H. Duckles.  5^th ed.  ML113 .D83 1997

The best music research guide.  Arranged by form: dictionaries, encyclopedias, histories, etc. 

Irvine's writing about music / by Demar Irvine.  3^rd ed.  ML3797 .I79 1999

Style manual for writing about music.

Citations and indexing drawn from 640 international music periodicals

The Music Index (1949-1996 ) ML118 .M865

Print version of the above.

RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.  (1967- )  ML12 .I565 

Abstracts of scholarly books, articles, reviews and dissertations.  Omits popular material.  See also RILM abstracts of music literature. English-language thesaurus for appropriate searching terms.  ML12 .I5652

Music Article Guide. (1966-1996)   ML118 .M82

Indexed articles on music with emphasis on music pedagogy.

Schwann Online.  Available from Databases menu on Library homepage.

“A reference tool for music bibliographers, catalogers and enthusiasts” listing classical and non-classical recordings currently available.

Canadian Music Periodical Index.  Available online at:  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/wapp/cmpi/

Bibliographic citations for information on musical activity in Canada. Updated monthly.  Includes more than 25,000

entries indexed from 475 Canadian music journals, newsletters and magazines from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

Thematic catalogues in music : an annotated bibliography / by Barry S. Brook.   2^nd  ed.  ML113 .B86 1997

An index of about 1,444 entries, arranged by composer, listing thematic catalogs of that composer’s works.  (e.g. the Kochel catalog for Mozart’s works)  Thematic catalogs arrange a body of music in a systematic order and allows identification of individual works using “incipits,” or musical citations of the opening notes of a work.

 Music—Theory—To 500  (or 500-1400, etc.)

Music, Greek and Roman (or Music—Middle East, Music—Islamic)

Arabs—Music (or Jews—Music)

Chants (Byzantine) or (Jewish)

Music—India—500-1400 (or Music—Asia or Music—China)

Antiphons (or Conductus, Masses, Motet, Organa, Part songs, Polyphonic chansons, Sacred vocal music, etc.)

Singing—500-1400 (or Songs—Latin, Tropes (music), Troubadours, Trouveres, etc.)

M     Music.  (Musical scores, sheet music)  Instrumental music; Vocal
music; Unidentified compositions.

ML   Literature of music.  Librettos; Bibliography; History and criticism;
Philosophy and physics of music; Juvenile literature.

MT    Musical instruction and study.  Composition; Improvisation; Orchestra and orchestration, conducting, etc.; Analytical guides, etc.; Instrumental techniques; Singing and voice culture; Production of operas, music in theaters. 

Musical America.com.  http://musicalamerica.com/

Information about the music industry.  Online equivalent to print Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts.   You can do a global search or a “listing search” to limit your search to one of thirty categories (record producers, festivals, etc..  You can also do an “Artist Search” or an “Artist Manager Search.”   Includes daily music industry news and feature articles..

Music Library Association (MLA).  www.musiclibraryassoc.org

Includes information on music copyright for librarians and much more.

National Association of Schools of Music.  (NASM)  http://nasm.arts-accredit.org/index.jsp

Lots of useful information from the national accrediting organization.

 Doctoral dissertations in musicology online.  www.music.indiana.edu/ddm/index.html

A listing of dissertations in musicology, including lists by period such as Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, etc.

UCLA Music Library web resources. http://eresources.library.ucla.edu/mus/browse.cfm?su=92

An excellent list of music web resources with links to sites dealing with music of all periods and places.

Indiana University Bloomington William and Gayle Cook Music Library.  Reference services.     http://www.music.indiana.edu/reference/

An outstanding list of music reference sources, printed and electronic, including music-related databases, discographies, bibliographies of music arranged by instrument or group of instruments, online directories and periodicals, etc..

 ClassicalUSA.com.  http://classicalusa.com/

This supersite contains an annotated list of classical-music-related sites under the following headings: Music mega-sites; Selected reference, education and history sites; Sound files and Intenet radio; Compact discs; Film, video, and film music; High fidelity, A/V, and home theatre; Composers, conductors, performers; Opera, theatre, and song; Symphonic and band music; Musical instruments; British music sites; Music publications; Newsgroups and e-mail discussion lists; Jazz (nothing there at this time); Other music styles.

Classical Net.  http://www.classical.net/

Classical Net contains reviews of and makes recommendations for classical music CD’s.  It also features thousands of related files and links to other classical music web sites.