GWEN'S MUSIC RESOURCES & REFERENCES

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The Library of Congress Classification System organizes material in libraries according to 21 branches of knowledge. This system is in use at the Library of Congress and at many academic and research libraries throughout the world. The 21 categories are labeled from A to Z excluding letters I, O, W, X and Y. Library of Congress Classification Outline

For easy reference, the music holdings are classified under the letter M and is as follows:

• M = Instrumental & Vocal Music


• ML = Literature of Music


• MT = Musical Instruction & Study





Selected Bibliography List



Music Research: Guides to the Literature

Brockman, W. S. Music: A Guide to the Reference Literature.

Crabtree, Phillip D. & Donald Foster. Sourcebook for Research in Music.

Duckles, V. Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography.

Irvine, Demar. Writing about Music: A Style Book for Reports and Theses.

Pruett, J. W. Research Guide to Musicology.

Watanabe, Ruth T. Introduction to Music Research.


General music reference works: Dictionaries & Encyclopedias...

International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. ed. Oscar Thompson.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. Nicholas Slonimsky.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. ed. Stanley Sadie.

The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. ed. Don Michael Randel.

The New Oxford Companion to Music. ed. Denis Arnold.


Specific music reference works-Genres

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians. Nicolas Slonimsky.

Chamber Music: A Research and Information Guide. J. H. Baron.

Classical Music: A Concise History from Gluck to Beethoven. Julian Rushton.

Dictionary of Musical Technology. Tristram Cary.

Dictionary of Musical Terminology. Tristram Cary.

Early American Music: A Research and Information Guide. J. R. Heintze.

Encyclopedia of The Musical theater. Stanley Green.

Heritage of Music Series. (4 vols.) eds. Michel Raeburn & Alan Kendall.

History of Music: A Book for Study and Reference. Karl Worner.

Jazz: A History. Frank. Tirro.

Jazz: From It's Origin to the Present. Lewis Porter & Michael Ullman.

Jazz Reference and Research Materials: A Bibliography. Eddie Meadows.

Music in the 20th Century. ed. Hao Huang.

Opera: A Research and Information Guide. G. A. Marco.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack.

The Concise Oxford History of Music. Gerald Abraham.

The Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre. Kurt Ganzl.

The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. ed. Colin Larkin.

The History of Jazz. Gunther Schuller.

The New Country Music Encyclopedia. Tad Richards.

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. ed. H. Wiley Hitchcock & Stanley Sadie.

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. ed. Barry Kernfield.

The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. ed. Stanley Sadie.

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. ed. Stanley Sadie.

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. ed. Donald Clarke.


Music Periodicals and Journals

Cambridge Opera Journal

Contact: A Journal of Contemporary Music

Current Musicology

Early Music

Jazz Journal International

Journal of Music Theory

Journal of Musicology

Music Analysis

Musical Quarterly

Perspectives of New Music


Internet Sites


• Internet Resources for Music Scholars (Harvard U.):  http://hcl.harvard.edu/loebmusic/online-ir-intro.html



• Music Resources on the World Wide Web (Yale U.):  http://www.library.yale.edu/musiclib/webres.htm



• Internet Links for Music Research:  http://www.library.unt.edu/music/links.htm



• Worldwide Internet Music Resources:  http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/



• Music:  Librarians’ Index to the Internet:  http://www.lii.org/search/file/music



• WWW Virtual Library:  Music:  http://www.vl-music.com/



• Google Web Directory:  Music:  http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/



• Music Information Resources:  http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/music.html



• Music on the Net:  http://www.lib.utk.edu/music/net/net.html



• Music Resources on the Internet:  http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/music/



• WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists:  http://www.ams-net.org/musicology_www.html



• Online Resources for Ethnomusicological Information:  http://www.middlebury.edu/~lib/ethno.html#sectioncontents



• DW3:  Classical Music Resources:  http://www.lib.duke.edu/music/resources/classical_index.html



• Classical Music Navigator:  http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/index2.htm



• Museum of Musical Instruments:  http://www.themomi.org/museum/index2.html



• U.S. Copyright Office:  http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/



• Journal of Musicology:  http://www.journalofmusicology.org/



• Music Periodicals:  http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/journals.html



• Online Music Journals (full text):  http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/music/online_journals.htm



• The Aria Database:  http://www.aria-database.com/index2.html



• ChoralNet: The Internet Center for Choral Music:  http://choralnet.org