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Music: Home

Research resources for music history, music education, and music performance

Music Guide Home

This guide is designed for:

  • music and music education majors
  • any student researching topics related to music

Further assistance is available at the Research Help Desk in the Gault Library, or by directly contacting the liaison librarian, Allie Joyner.

Library Quick Links

Best Starting Point for Most Music Research Projects

  Oxford Music Online / Grove Music Online
 
 
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. (2001)
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992)
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. (2002)
  • Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Colin Larkin, 4th ed. (2006)
  • The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (2013)
  • The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed. (2014)
It also includes:
  • The Oxford Companion to Music (revised 2011)
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. (2006)

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