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Locating Background Resources

Find historical and biographical information about composers, scholarly information about musical compositions, and lists of additional critical and scholarly readings with these reference sources.

Recommended Background Resources:

Print Reference Collection: located on the first floor

Check out the first floor of the library in the 780's for excellent print resources about music.

General
Title	Reference Call No.
The Harvard dictionary of music	780.3 H3392R
The Harvard biographical dictionary of music	780.922 H339R
The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians	780.3 G88D 1980
The Norton/Grove concise encyclopedia of music	780.3 G883S
The Oxford companion to popular music	781.6403 G193O
American & European Music
The Cambridge history of American music	780.973 C178N
The development of western music : a history	780.9 S875D
Encyclopedia of rock	781.6603 E56R
Folk music in America : a reference guide	016.781773 M651F
The literature of rock III	781.66016 H699L
The New Grove dictionary of American music	781.773 N532G
The New Grove dictionary of jazz	785. 4203 N532K
Anthropology, Ethnography, Cultural Reference Sources
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean	980.00321 C17L
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history	973.0496073 E56S
Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture	980.003 E56T
Encyclopedia of North American Indians	970.00497 E56H
Encyclopedia of Southern culture	970.00497 H236S
Handbook of North American Indians	975.00321 E56W

Online Reference Resources

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Databases@Emory)

The primary English-language reference source for music comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed., The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed.

Locating Books

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Locating Articles

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Evaluating and Citing Your Sources

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Evaluating Sources:

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Finding Reliable Web Resources:

Use Internet Guides and Collections to find reliable sites:

Ethnographic Resources (Library of Congress) http://www.lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/other.html
Society for Ethnomusicology Links http://webdb.iu.edu/sem/scripts/links/linkcategories.cfm
Voice of the Shuttle: Music & Dance http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2722
WWW Sites of Interest to Musicologists (American Musicological Society) http://www.ams-net.org/musicology_www.php
Worldwide Internet Music Resources (Indiana University) http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

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Guide Details

Spring 2009 - Dr. Archetto - Mus 204