Music Subject Guide

Welcome to the Music subject guide. This guide will help you find materials concerning music in the library, including indexes and reference works, books and journals, and resources on the Internet. Researching Music in the Library is often difficult. The idea behind this guide is to provide an easier way for you to find what you are looking for in a short time.

Please contact Carolyn Smith if you need further help or specialized assistance with your research.

Below you will find the a list of the most important print Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Music:

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  Reference (Evans Library)
  ML100 .N48 2001
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
  Reference (Evans Library)
  ML105 .B16 2001
• The New Harvard Dictionary of Music
  Reference (Evans Library)
  ML100 .N37 1993
• Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
  Evans Library Stacks
  ML100 .M987 1989

Online Recorded Music

•  Naxos Music Library
• Classical Music Library
• African American Song (Alexander Street)
• American Song (Alexander Street Press)
• Smithsonian Global Sound (Alexander Street)
  
  
  
  
  

Online Reference Sources

• Grove Music Online
• Music Index Online
• International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) (PQ)
  
• RILM Abstracts of Music (SP)
  
  

Related Links for Music

• Texas A&M Music Program
  Information on music courses, the degree program in music, and the faculty in music.
• American Musicological Society
  Musicology is the scholarly study of music, including its history. This society was founded in 1934 and is the principal academic association of musicologists in the US.
• College Music Society
  The College Music Society is "a consortium of college, conservatory, university, and independent musicians and scholars interested in all disciplines of music."
• Society for Ethnomusicology
  Ethnomusicology studies the human activity of making music in all its forms and all cultures, world wide, in the present and in the past.
• Society for Music Theory
  Music theorists analyze the structure of music, using a variety of theoretical techniques.
• Music Educators' National Conference
  This is the principal organization of music educators in the United States.
• Music Library Association
  The Music Library Association includes both music librarians and those who study the history and literature of music.