Reference Guides for Music

Online Resources

Musical America Online  (Any location)

New Grove dictionary of music and musicians   (All US JHU)

RISM international inventory of musical sources after 1600.  (Eisenhower Library only; Friedheim Library)

Print Resources in General Reference - M level

Guides to Literature and Handbooks - Music 

Duckles, Vincent H., and Michael A. Keller. Music Reference and Research
Materials: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Schirmer Books, 1988. GEN REF ML113 .D8 1988
 
Gammond, Peter. The Oxford Companion to Popular Music. Oxford and New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991. GEN REF ML102.P66 G351 1991
 
 The New Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. GEN REF ML100 .S36 1983
 
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - Music 

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New York: Schirmer Books,
1991. GEN REF ML 105 .B16 1991
 
Contemporary Musicians. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989-. GEN REF ML385 .C66
 
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd ed., ed. Colin Larkin. London: Muze,
1998. GEN REF ML 102 .P66 G84 1998
 
Kennedy, Michael. The Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. GEN REF ML 100 .K351 1994
 
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik.  Kassel: Barenreiter Verlag, 1949-86. GEN REF Quarto ML 100 .M8 1949
 
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart:  allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik.  Second edition. Kassel and New York: Barenreiter, and Stuttgart: Metzler, 1994-. GEN REF Quarto ML 100 .M8 1994
 
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986. GEN REF Quarto ML101.U6 N481 1986
 
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.  London: Macmillan. 1988. GEN REF
Quarto  ML102.J3 N481 1988
 
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed, ed. Stanley Sadie.  London: Macmillan, 1980. GEN REF ML100 .N48 2000
 
The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. London: Macmillan. 1984.  GEN REF ML102.I5 N481 1984
 
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. London: Macmillan, 1992. GEN REF
Quarto ML 102 .O6 N51 1992
 
The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London: Macmillan, 1994.  GEN REF ML 105 .N381 1994
 
The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. GEN REF ML100 .A64 1986
 
Thompson, Oscar. The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975. GEN REF Quarto ML100 .T47 1975
 
 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias - Dance
 
International Dictionary of Dance, ed. Martha Bremser. Detroit: St. James
Press, 1993 GV1585 .I571 1993
 
International Encyclopedia of Dance, ed. Selma J. Cohen. New York & Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 1998. GEN REF GV 1585 .I586 1998 QUARTO
 
Winson, G.B.L., A Dictionary of Ballet. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1974 GEN REF GV 1585 .W5 1974