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Research Resources for Music

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

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Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World

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ML102.P66 C66 2003 (Music Library Reference)
A seven volume guide to world music industries organized by continent.

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Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

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ML100 .G16 1998 (Music Library Reference)
A comprehensive survey of world music organized in ten volumes by continent.

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Grove Music Online

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Includes the full text of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. For specialized reference, see also the print editions of the New Grove Dictionaries of American Music, Musical Instruments, and Opera and the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers.

Oxford Reference Online - Performing Arts

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Includes the Oxford Dictionary of Dance, the Concise Oxford Dictionaries of Music and Opera, Who's Who in Opera, the Oxford Companions to Music and Shakespeare, the Concise Oxford Companion to Theatre, and more

Online Indexes to Music Literature

Academic Search Complete

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Provides full text for more than 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated daily.
List of journals included.

Music Index Online (1979 - Current)

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Index of scholarly and popular articles published from 1979 to present. Consult the print version of the Music Index [Music Library Reference ML 118 .M84] for articles published from 1949 through 1978.

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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (1969 - Current)

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Includes references (most with abstracts) to scholarly writings, including books, articles, and dissertations from 1969 to the present in English and most European languages.

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