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MUTH 110: The Republic to Rationalism: History, Arts, and Performance I

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Also known as Grove Art Online, updated web access to The Dictionary of Art (N31 .D5 1996t, 33 vols. Stauffer Library - Compact Shelving).
Also known as Grove Music Online, updated web access to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Music Ref. ML100 .N48 2001 29 vols.
 
Oxford Reference Online - Music - 5 user limit. Includes other reference tools. See also: Oxford Reference Online - Performing Arts - 5 user limit
OBO lists books, journals, primary documents, web resources, and multimedia in various discipline-based subject modules such as: Art History, Cinema and Media Studies, Classics, Medieval Studies, Music, Renaissance and Reformation
 

Collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias includes: Oxford Dictionary of World History, Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance, Oxford encyclopedia of the Reformation. Many of the Oxford titles are also in print in Stauffer Reference. Search Omni by title for the call number.

 
 

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