'...superb and remarkably exhaustive.' Robert Henderson, Daily Telegraph '...captures the totality of American music as never before.' D.W.Krummel, Choice '...represents a lexicographic landmark in musical literature. It is destined to become a classic.' Arthur Cohn, Symphony Magazine Contact: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, Brunel Road, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 2XS. Tel: (0256) 817245

Nearly 6,000 entries, written by more than 70 top musicologists. Contains definitions of musical terms used in performance, history, and criticism of music. Emphasizes Western art music, but with some coverage of non-Western music, popular music, and instruments of all cultures.

Four volume compilation reference work on opera, including every cross-reference topic relating to this spectacular art form. Special features include: 1,200 pages per volume; 10,000 articles; 2,900 articles on composers; 2,500 articles on performers; 500 articles on librettists; 2,000 articles on individual operas; 1,300 illustrations of opera houses, performers, set designs, architectural drawings & more; 400 articles on cities & countries; extensive bibliographies; over 2,000 cross-references; 1,000 international contributors; detailed worklists following Composer & Librettist entries; & unique index of characters.
Also included in OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition is the largest, most comprehensive and accurate reference work on jazz ever published, putting the world of jazz at your fingertips. With articles on every aspect of the field, from jazz groups, composers and arrangers to instruments, terms,record labels and venues, the new edition is the ideal companion for scholars and enthusiasts in this rapidly growing field.
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From custom and conception, through craftsmanship and construction, to playing and performance, The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments is the definitive guide to musical instruments from around the world. Covering over 12,000 musical instruments, Instrument Grove describes each instrument individually and in the context of instrument families. Charting the history, development, musical function, and intercultural links of each instrument, this is the most comprehensive collection of information on the topic.
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Containing more than 15,000 biographies ranging from several lines to eight pages in length, Baker's provides unparalleled coverage of the world's greatest and lesser-known musicians in the uniquely insightful and always meticulous style of lexicographer extraordinaire Nicolas Slonimsky.

20 volumes. Included online as part of OXFORD MUSIC ONLINE.

Widely regarded as an authoritative academic source for ethnomusicology, the Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has 10 volumes:
Volume 1: Africa - ed. Ruth M. Stone, 1997
Volume 2: South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean - ed. Dale A. Olsen, 1998
Volume 3: The United States and Canada - ed. Ellen Koskoff, 2000
Volume 4: Southeast Asia - ed. Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams, 1998
Volume 5: South Asia: The Indian Subcontinent - ed. Alison Arnold, 1999
Volume 6: The Middle East - ed. Virginia Danielson, 2001
Volume 7: East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea - ed. Robert Provine, 2001
Volume 8: Europe - ed. Timothy Rice, 2000
Volume 9: Australia and the Pacific Islands - ed. Adrienne L. Kaeppler, 1998
Volume 10: The World's Music: General Perspectives and Reference Tools - ed. Ruth M. Stone
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One-volume encyclopedia, with strong emphasis on American music and musicians. An older work but still useful and relevant.

Three comprehensive volumes and 20,000 entries provide an accurate and fascinating portrait of the evolution of American popular music from 1888 to the present.

With detailed plots and background material for more than 300 operas, this is the most complete general guide available.

Encompassing in one alphabetic sequence all that is notable within popular music, from jazz, reggae, blues, and calypso, to Broadway musicals, rock and roll, and country western. There are hundreds of biographical entries. Not the least important feature is the many informative essays on particular genres of popular music, from operetta and waltz, to vaudeville and blues, to brass band and gospel. This authoritative and comprehensive volume offers a matchless tour of the popular music world, providing a balance between substantial information and a concise assessment of the subject.

This text allows the reader to locate 248 music books, and over 7,000 different songs.

Located at the INFORMATION DESK, 2nd floor. An older work, but still important, this book indexes 411 collections of art songs, folk songs, and operatic arias published between 1940 and 1957. Anthologies owned by OSU are noted in the margins (a terrific time-saver).

This third supplement covers books published from 1979 to 1987 plus a few earlier titles. As in the second supplement, Havlice includes titles issued by music publishers and trade houses. The arrangement of this supplement is identical to its predecessors.

Author and subject index to journals representing various aspects of the music field. Library subscribed to annual volumes in print format, 1949-2009. Non-circulating.

2 v. One of the essential reference tools in the field of Western classical music. Over the years OSU Libraries has purchased hundreds of sets of collected editions and monuments of music. A collected edition can be either the complete collected works of a single composer, or a series of works by various composers grouped according to a historical time period, a musical style, or a geographic area. These sets are based on the best scholarship known at the time and include the most accurate editions of the scores. A search of the online catalog does not usually retrieve the contents of the individual volumes of these large sets. Heyer's book is important because it details the contents of these sets.

Contains texts of well-known art songs and arias with English translations. v. 1, German and French; v. 2, Italian.

The original texts of over seven hundred and fifty songs. Included English translations.

The Ring of Words assembles lyrics of the most famous art songs of Europe with literal line-by-line English translations printed on the facing pages. The editor-translator, a renowned music scholar and critic, has contributed an introductory essay on the relationship between lyrics and music, as well as notes on each poet and on the composer or composers who set each poem to music.