Hoover Library: *Music: General Reference Books

General Reference Books

A Chronicle of American Music 1700-1995
Call Number: R 780.973 H174
A Resource Guide to Themes in Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950-1985
Call Number: R 784.5 C776
American Musical Traditions
Call Number: R 781.62 A512
Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
Call Number: R 780.922 B168b v.1-6
Classical music : the Rough Guide.
Call Number: R 780.9 C614
Contemporary Musicians
Call Number: R780.922 C761 v.1-80
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Call Number: R 781.64 E56 v.1-10
Music Since 1900
Call Number: R 780.904 K96
New Oxford History of Music
Call Number: R 780.9 N532 v.1-10
Selected Musical Terms of Non-Western Cultures : A Notebook-Glossary
Call Number: R 780.89 K21
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Call Number: R 781.64 E56 v.1-29
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
Call Number: R 782.103 N532 v.1-4
Women and Music
Call Number: 780.82 W872 v.1-2, L Floor
World Music: The Rough Guide
Call Number: R 780.9 W927 v.1-2

OnMusic Dictionary
A reference for musical terms, including some terms from other languages.
Musical Terms/Musical Glossary
"Classical Music terms: Glossary of Classical Music Online and Musical Terms Dictionary. "