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Welcome to the Music subject guide. This guide will help you find materials concerning music in the library, including indexes and reference works, books and journals, and resources on the Internet. Researching Music in the Library is often difficult. The idea behind this guide is to provide an easier way for you to find what you are looking for in a short time.

Please contact Carolyn Smith if you need further help or specialized assistance with your research.

Below you will find the a list of the most important print Dictionaries and Encyclopedias in Music:

Online Reference Sources

These online sources are a good place to begin research on any topic in Music

• Grove Music Online
• Music Index Online
• International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP) (PQ)
• International Index to the Performing Arts
• RILM Abstracts of Music (SP)

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
  Reference (Evans Library)
  ML100 .N48 2001
• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
  Evans Library Stacks
  ML105 .B16 2001
• The New Harvard Dictionary of Music
  Evans Library Stacks
  ML100 .N37 1993
• Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
  Evans Library Stacks
  ML100 .M987 1989