Music
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Library resources (print and multimedia) relating to all aspects of music and musicians.

KEY SUBJECT HEADINGS

  • Music
  • Composition
  • Music--history and criticism
  • Chamber music
  • Choral music
  • Electronic music
  • Harmony
  • Instrumental music
  • Jazz
  • Music - study and teaching
  • Musical Instruments
  • Popular music
  • Rock music
  • Singing



KEY REFERENCE SOURCES

R 780.92       Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians.  New York :   
B168b          Schirmer Books ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1984.         

D R 780.902    A dictionary of early music : from the troubadours to       
R673d          Monteverdi.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.      

R 780.42 G964  The Guinness encyclopedia of popular music, 2nd ed.         
1995           Enfield, Middlesex, England : Guinness Pub. 1995.           

R 781.23       Handbook of music terms.  Metuchen, N.J., Scarecrow Press,  
G762h          1967.                                                       

R 781.77303    The New Grove dictionary of American music.  New York,      
N532           N.Y. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1986.                 

R 780.3 N532   The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians .           
               Washington, D.C. : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1980.     

R 781.9103     The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments.  New York  
N532 1985      : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1985.                      

R 780.3 N532   The New Harvard dictionary of music.  Cambridge, MA :       
1986           Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 1986                  

R 782.1 L431o  The opera handbook.  Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, [1990],     
1990           c1987.                                                      

R 780 P962     The Pro/Am book of music and mythology.  White Plains,      
               N.Y. : Pro/Am Music Resources, c1992-    .                  


SELECTED TITLES

MEDIA         African rhythms and instruments [sound recording].  New      
781.6296      York, N.Y. : Lyrichord, [1969]3 sound discs : digital,       
A258          stereo.                                                      

780.9033      The age of Mozart and Beethoven.  Cambridge                  
P476a         [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984.   

Career        Career opportunities in the music industry.  New York :      
Center        Facts on File, c1995.                                        
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784.540092    Elvis, the Sun years : the story of Elvis Presley in the     
              fifties.  Arbor, MI : Popular Culture, Ink, 1993.            
                                                             
MEDIA         JVC video anthology of world music and dance.  East Asia -   
781.620078    South Asia - Southeast Asia - Europe - Oceania - Americas -  
J98           Soviet Union - Middle East and Africa Cambridge MA:          
              Distributed by Rounder Records, [198-?]                      

784.54 H314p  Philosophy at 33 1/3 rpm:  themes of classic rock music.     
              Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, 1993.                            

MEDIA 781.66  Rock & Roll.  (This PBS video series surveys the             
R682          development of rock music from the early 1950s to the        
              emergence of rap, hip hop and techno).  South Burlington,    
              VT : WGBH Video, c1995.                                      

MEDIA         The Story of great music  [sound recording].  Age of         
780.9033      revolution - From the Renaissance - The baroque era.         
S8875         Prelude to modern music -  The Spanish style.  [New York] :  
              Time-Life, [c1968]                                           



PERIODICALS PERIODICAL INDEXES
  • Rolling Stone
  • Sheet Music
  • Proquest Research II



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