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Music Resources

Essential Resources | Additional Resources | Multidisciplinary Library Databases | Public Websites

Featured Reference Books:

Piano: An Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. 2003.

Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 6 volumes. 8th edition. 2001.

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. 7 volumes. 2003.

An Index to Music Published in The Etude Magazine 1883-1957. 2004.

Women Composers: Music Through the Ages. 7 volumes. 1997-.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. 10 volumes. 1998-2002.

American Musical Traditions. 5 volumes. 2002.

Music Since 1900. 6th edition. 2001.

Free Jazz and Free Improvisation: An Encyclopedia. 2 volumes. 2004.

All Music Guide to Soul: The Definitive Guide to R & B and Soul. 2003.
(One of several music reference guides to many different popular music genres. Entries include brief synopsis of the artist’s careers, with discographies.)

Note: A number of books included in Grove Music Online are also available in print.

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Essential Resources:

Music Dept at
UW-L

Music Periodicals

Citation Guides

Scholarly v. Popular Journals

The Music Index (EBSCOhost):

Citations from more than 640 international music periodicals. Coverage: 1979 to present. Updated: monthly. Note: This resource includes the same contents as Harmonie Park Press' Music Index Online.

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Grove Music Online (Grove):

This online version of the Grove Dictionary of Music, contains over 30,000 articles on every aspect of the music world including bibliographies on composers and musicians. Hundreds of carefully selected and classified links to international musical sites. Included is the Grove Dictionary of Opera. Coverage: Early Middle Ages to present. Updated: monthly.
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African American Music Reference (Alexander Street Press): Is a new resource that will eventually contain 50,000 pages of coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. The fall 2007 release includes 1304 essays and images from 36 sources, over 13506 pages. Content includes biographies of 185 African American composers and 5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records.

BadgerLink Song Book Database (BadgerLink): This is database includes 40,000 unique records for songs contained in 2000 separate songbooks available via the WI Department of Public Instruction's Reference and Loan Library Collection or through Wisconsin libraries. Users can search for a song by title, composer, lyricist or year to discover a book containing the song.

Multidisciplinary Library Databases:

These full-text resources also include information related to this subject area:

Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost). Includes full text of scholarly and popular periodicals.

MasterFile Premier (EBSCOhost). Includes full text of mostly popular periodicals, some scholarly, newspapers, and more.

LexisNexis Academic. Includes full text of popular, scholarly, trade, and professional periodicals, and much more.

CQ Researcher. For in-depth reports on current and past topics in all subject areas.
JSTOR. For reliable access to full text of articles from more than 490 periodicals more than 2-5 years old.

Public Websites:

The following web resources were selected by librarians:

Music Web sites A directory listing of related sites.

Early American Secular Music

Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923

Wisconsin Alliance for Composers

Electronic Music Foundation

College Music Society

New Music Box

International Association for Jazz Education

Jazz Resource Center

Bass Player

Musictheory.net

MENC National Association for Music Education

American Music Center

International Foundation for Music Research

International Music Products Association

Society of Composers

International Tuba and Euphonium Association

Percussive Arts Society

International Trumpet Guild

International Saxophone Home Page

Chorus America

National Association of Teachers of Singing

All Music Guide

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