| Die Musik in Geschicte und Gegenwart |
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| New Grove Dictionary of Music |
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| Riemann ML/ Brief def.; not as scholarly as Grove or Baker’s; translated from German. |
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| Biographisch-Bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon Der Musiker, etc. |
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| Eitner QL/ Locates primary sources before 1900; valuable for extinct sources |
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| Biographie Universelle des musiciens et Bibliographie Generale de la Musique |
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| Fetis BU/ Primary source, out of date, mostly just useful for biography help. |
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| New Harvard Dictionary of Music |
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| NHDM/ Concise; foreign terms, cross-ref., bibliography; no composer info |
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| Repetoire International des Sourves Musicales |
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| RISM/document the world’s musical sources of manuscripts or printed music |
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| Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (1798) |
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| AMZ/ Primary source; reviews of current music/books in GER; (e.g. Hoffman’s review of Beethoven’s 5th) |
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| Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik |
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| Journal of the American Musicological Society |
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| JAMS/ Musicology research |
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| Journal of Research in Music Ed |
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| Repertoire Int’l de la Literature Musicale |
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| RILM/Periodical index with abstracts of articles |
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| Haydn’s Themetisch-biblio Werkerzeichnus |
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| Das Werk Beethovens: etc. |
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| Chronologisch-Thematisches…Mozart’s |
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| Thematisch-systematisches…J.S. Bach |
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| S. or BWV (Schmieder)/ Vocal, Inst’l |
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| Historical Anthology of Music |
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| HAM / Renaissance (and others) excerpts in modern notation |
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| NS / various works with highlighted major parts of orchestra/band pieces |
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| Norton Anthology of Western Music |
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| NAWM / Aaron’s Textbook anthology |
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| Recent Researches in Music of (Classical/Baroque) ERa |
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| Wolff / Each vol. with extensive research on various musical pieces (e.g. Salieri’s Mass) |
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| Music in Western Europe and US |
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| Borroff / Great timeline of coinciding historical/arts/music events |
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| General History of Music from Earliest Times to Present |
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| Burney / more historic than helpful; 1st music history book |
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| Cykler / tool for surface research of important music events (music appreciation info) |
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| Music in Western Civilization |
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| Lang / quasi-scholarly, info covers all musical periods (ending with 1941 as present) |
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| Source readings in Music History from Classical Antiquity to Romantic Era |
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| Strunk / scholarly, music philosophy source (e.g. Plato) |
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| Research Guide to Music: Search strategy |
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| Druesdow / Step by step guide to music history research (e.g. finding and narrowing topic) |
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| Music Reference and Research Materials: Annotated Bibliography |
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| Duckles / 1st stop for research – tells you if there’s a topic guide about your topic. |
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| Int’l Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians |
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| Thompson / list of works; not scholarly, snapshot of artist |
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| Baker’s bio dictionary of musicians |
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| Baker / extensive works list; quasi-scholarly; has obscure composers; jazz/pop editor |
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| teacher’s impact on music; research a future teacher (resumes) |
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| Woman composers: music thru ages |
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| Glickman / index of terms; 2-6 pg per composer; discography/works |
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| Dictionary of Musical Terms |
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| Tinctoris / primary source; one of 1st music books printed; brief terms, especially Renaissance/15th century |
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| Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology |
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| Adkins / listings of dissertations |
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| Historical Sets, Collected Ed., and monuments of music |
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| Heyer / Collections of works by a composer or all music from specific category (e.g. country/composer/genre); critical report of each work |
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| Verlag / separate books for each topic (e.g. “fugue”) with famous/obscure composers |
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