Research Guides: MUSC 385: Research, Issues, and Methodologies in Musicology: Reference

Essential Reference

Oxford Music Online/Grove Music
Full text online version of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Includes the Encyclopedia of Popular Music with all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
The Oxford Dictionary of Music by Tim Rutherford-Johnson; Michael Kennedy; Joyce Kennedy
Coverage of composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history with expanded coverage of popular music, ethnomusicology, modern and contemporary composers, music analysis, and recording technology.
Oxford Art Online/Grove Art
Full text online updated version of The Dictionary of Art (34 vols., N31 .D5 1996t Compact Shelving), the only comprehensive source of information on all aspects of the visual arts of every civilization from prehistory to the present. Includes illustrations and bibliographies.

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Music

OBO Music lists books, journals, primary documents, web resources, and multimedia resources.

The Oxford dictionary of music / Michael Kennedy. 6th ed.

5,000 composers, including contemporary figures, updated entries on conductors and performers, as well as others in the music industry, and musical terms and forms, instruments, works and venues.

Oxford Reference Online - Music

More than 69,000 concise definitions and in-depth, specialist encyclopedic entries on the wide range of subjects within the broad field of music.

More Reference Tools

Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world. Ref. ML102 .P66 C66 11 vols.11

v. 1. Media, industry and society. v. 2. Performance and production. v. 3. Caribbean and Latin America. v. 4. North America. v. 5. Asia and Oceania. v. 6. Africa and the Middle East. v. 7. Europe. v. 8. Genres : North America. v. 9. Genres : Caribbean and Latin America. v. 10. Middle East and North Africa -- v. 11. Genres: Europe.

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada

The English and French print versions are now subsumed by The Canadian Encyclopedia and updated online by Historica Canada. These combined sources are still the most authoritative first point of reference for researching the music of Canada.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

First encyclopedia devoted to the music of all the world's peoples, with each volume devoted to a single region. Print edition: Ref. ML100 .G16 1997- 10 vols., accompanied by 9 CDs (SRCD97-121 v. 1-9) on the CD shelves.

RISM (International Inventory of Musical Sources)

Non-profit, multinational database documenting extant musical sources (manuscripts, printed music, writings on music theory,and libretti, mostly before 1800) available in libraries, archives, monasteries and private collections.