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Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Call Number: Music Reference ML100 M932 1994

Also know as the MGG, it is the major German-language music encyclopedia. It is international in scope and coverage, and although written in German, it has extensive bibliographies which include works in English.
Encyclopedia of music in Canada
Call Number: Music Reference ML106 C3E63 1992

overs music and musical life and the course of their development in Canada through articles on Canadian individuals, organizations, instruments, genres, etc. Includes valuable bibliographies and discographies. French edition, 1983.
Also available Online
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Call Number: ML102 P66G84 2007

This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. Also available Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
Call Number: Music Reference ML100 G37

A 10-volume set that takes an ethnomusicological approach to all the musics of the world
New Grove dictionary of music and musicians
Call Number: Music Reference ML100 G885 2001

The major English-language music encyclopedia. Coverage is comprehensive; lengthy articles include lists of composers' works, extensive bibliographies, illustrations. Also available online as part of Oxford Music Online
New Harvard dictionary of music
Call Number: Music Reference ML100 N485 1986

The standard North American dictionary of music. Provides concise information on all musical topics. Non-biographical. Useful for illustrations and musical examples, bibliographies, cross references to related articles, excellent historical articles.
Baker's biographical dictionary of music
Call Number: Reference ML105 B16 2001

Concise biographies of musicians and includes bibliographies of writings by and about persons listed. Also of note is Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians

Dissertations and Thesis

ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis
Contains more than 1.5 million citations to dissertations and theses written by authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities.
Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
DDM is an international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of musicology, music theory, and ethnomusicology
Dissertations in Music Theory
Thesis Canada Portal
This is your central access point for Canadian theses. From here you can search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection

Guides to Collected Works

Historical sets, collected editions, and monuments of music : a guide to their contents

Anna H. Heyer
Call Number: Music Reference ML113 H52 1980

ISBN: 083890288X

Publication Date: 1980-01-01

Index to Printed Music : Collections and Series (onine)
The Index to Printed Music: Collections & Series is the only electronic title for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions (M2's M3's)

Primary Sources

Music Manuscripts (1600 to 1800) in British and Irish Libraries
This database holds details of the 17th- and 18th-century music manuscripts preserved in libraries and archives in the UK and Ireland.

Primary Sources include orignial musical scores (or facsimilies), recordings, reviews of concerts, treatises, letters, and diaries.
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RISM Database of Musical Manuscripts in US Libraries
Search for Music Manuscripts in U.S. Libraries by music incipits
RISM International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
An annotated index and guide to music manuscripts produced after 1600. The database indexes more than 380,000 works housed in libraries and archives around the world.

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