University Libraries: Music: Resources in the Library: Encyclopedias

Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Oxford Music Online
The gateway to Grove Music Online, with access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music. Access is limited to 3 users at a time.

The Harvard Dictionary of Music
Also available in Main Stacks ML100 .A64 2003. Encyclopedia-length signed articles by experts alternate with short entries for quick reference, including definitions and identifications of works and instruments...
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More than 220 drawings and 250 musical examples enhance the text. Provides excellent coverage of regional and country-specific music. There is virtually no biography, although some individual works are included.
The Penguin Dictionary of Music
"This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of the landmark musical reference book contains more than 500 new entries on new musical instruments, recent compositions, new composers, and rising stars of the...
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concert and opera worlds, as well as a new subject area, classic musicals and their composers."
Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Guide to the World of Opera
Online and ML102.O6 M47 1987 Lists works, composers, librettists, performers, and terms, paying special attention to performances of the Metropolitan Opera. Entries for works list not only the place, date, and cast...
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of the world premier and U.S. premier but of Metropolitan productions. Statistics through the 1986-87 season are included, and essays on selected topics (e.g., Pavarotti on La Boheme ) are scattered throughout.

Dictionary of Early Music: From the Troubadours to Monteverdi
ML100 .R695 Includes entries for some 700 composers from the troubadours to Monteverdi, featuring especially those composers whose music is available in modern editions and on recordings.
Musical Terminology : A Practical Compendium In Four Languages
ML108 .B55 1999 Enables English-speaking musicians to understand instructive musical terminology in the three languages in which it is most commonly found.

A Chronicle Of American Music, 1700-1995
ML200 .H15 1996 While concentrating on events in the cultivated art/music scene, additionally notes historical, cultural, artistic, literary, and commercial music highlights.