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Places to Start
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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowCoverage: current. Includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Grove's), the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Oxford Dictionary of Music, and the Oxford Companion to Music.
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Oxford Music Online is a great place to gather reliable summaries of any musical topic. However, you will find other, specialized music encyclopedias in the catalog:
- Search the type of music and subject Encyclopedias, e.g. Rock Music -- Encyclopedias OR
- Search subject Music -- geographic region -- Encyclopedias, e.g. Music -- Southeast Asia -- Encyclopedias OR
- Browse all our encyclopedias (not just music), by searching the subject Encyclopedias, but be warned, we have more than 2,000!
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Related Guides
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MusicTopic guide from the Center for Research Libraries
Handbook
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Music Research byNew York: Oxford University Press, 2009
CASE Reference ML113 .S28 2009 -
Sourcebook for research in music byBloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005
COLGATE Network ML113 .C68 2005eb