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Music Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Directories

Several standard music reference sources are now available online (i.e. Groves and Harvard). If you are off-campus you can get to them
using the WebVPN. Once you authenticate in the WebVPN, click on the "CMU Library" link in the upper left corner and access
the database(s) you need under "Databases by Name".

Print versions of reference sources are located on the 4th floor of Hunt Library in the Arts Reference section (FA-REF-4).
Some titles are listed here, but this is not a comprehensive list. Be sure to search Cameo for more titles that cover specific subject areas within music.


Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Directories

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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

African American Music Reference (Carnegie Mellon users only)

African American Music Reference will bring together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.

The first release includes over 3,900 pages of reference, including a comprehensive set of biographies on the top 185 African American composers, edited by Samuel Floyd, Jr., as well as 5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records. Other materials in this release include African American iconography, collections of spirituals and slave lyrics, and reference on important ensembles and musicians such as the Fisk Jubilee Singers,Jelly Roll Morton, Wynton Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, and more.

Classical Music Reference (Carnegie Mellon users only)

Arnold, Ben, ed. The Liszt Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
STACKS-4 ML410 .L7 L565 2002

Goss, Glenda Dawn. The Sibelius Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996.
STACKS-4 ML410 .S54 S53 1996

Grout, Donald J. A Short History of Opera. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
STACKS-4 ML1700 .G83 2003

Kallen, Stuart A. The History of Classical Music. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2003.
Online only.

Kallen, Stuart A. The Instruments of Music. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2003.
Online only.

Kuhn, Laura, ed. Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, 3 vols. New York: Schirmer, 1999.
Online only.

Kuhn, Laura, ed. Music Since 1900, 6th ed. New York: Schirmer, 2001.
FA-REF-4 ML197 .S634 2001

Schleifer, Martha Furman and Sylvia Glickman, eds. Women Composers: Music Through the Ages, 7 vols. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996-2003.
Online only.

Slonimksy, Nicholas, ed. emeritus. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Centennial ed. New York: Schirmer, 2001.
FA-REF-4 ML105 .B16 2001, 6 vols.

Slonimsky, Nicholas. Baker's Dictionary of Music. Edited by Richard Kassel. New York: Schirmer, 1997.
Online only.

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Grove Music Online (Carnegie Mellon users only) now part of Oxford Music Online

Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 2002.
FA-REF-4 ML102 .J3 N48 2001, 3 vols.

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1992.
FA-REF-4 ML102 .O6 N5 1992, 4 vols.

Sadie, Stanley and John Tyrrell, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 2001.
FA-REF-4 ML100 .N48 2000, 29 vols.

Credo Reference (Carnegie Mellon users only)
[once in Credo Reference, click on "Browse Topics", then "Music"]

Hardy, Phil. The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, Rev. ed. London: Faber, 2001.
Online only.

Jacobs, Arthur, ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Music, 6th ed. / repr. with revisions. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 1998, c1996.
STACKS-4 ML100 .J3 1996 (6th edition, 1996)

Randel, Don Michael, ed. The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
FA-REF-4 ML105 .H38 1996 (1996 edition)

Randel, Don Michael, ed. The Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
FA-REF-4 ML100 .A64 2003 (4th edition, 2003)
FA-REF-4 ML100 .N485 1986 (The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, 1986 rev. ed.)

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Oxford Music Online (Carnegie Mellon users only) includes Grove Music Online

Kennedy, Michael, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. rev. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
FA-REF-4 ML100 .K35 2006

Kernfeld, Barry, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 2002.
FA-REF-4 ML102 .J3 N48 2001, 3 vols.

Latham, Alision, ed. The Oxford Companion to Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
FA-REF-4 ML100 .S37 2002

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1992.
FA-REF-4 ML102 .O65 N5 1992, 4 vols.

Sadie, Stanley and John Tyrrell, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 2001. FA-REF-4 ML100 .N48 2000, 29 vols.

Oxford Reference Online (Carnegie Mellon users only)
[once in Oxford Reference Online, click on "Subjects&Books", scroll down to "Performing Arts"]

Bourne, Joyce. Who's Who in Opera. Consultant editor Michael Kennedy. [Oxford]: Oxford University Press, 1999, c2000.
FA-REF-4 ML102 .O6 B68 1998 (Who's Who in Opera: A Guide to Opera Characters, 1998)

Kennedy, Michael, ed. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 4th ed. [Oxford]: Oxford University Press, 1996, c2002.
FA-REF-4 ML100 .K35 1996 (1996 ed.)

Latham, Alison, ed. The Oxford Companion to Music. [Oxford, England ; New York]: Oxford University Press, 2003.
FA-REF-4 ML100 .S37 2002 (2002 ed.)

Warrack, John and Ewan West. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera. 3rd ed. [Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 1996, c2002.
FA-REF-4 ML102 .O6 R67 1979 (2nd ed., 1979)

Dictionaries in Print: Foreign Music Terms

Ammer, Christine. The A to Z of Foreign Music Terms. Boston: E. C. Schirmer, 1989.
FA-REF-4 ML108 .A52 1989
"The English equivalents of 3,000 foreign expression marks and directions from French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish scores." -- title page.

Boccagna, David L. Musical Terminology: A Practical Compendium in Four Languages. Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press, c1999.
FA-REF-4 ML108 .B55 1999
Musical terms in Italian, English, French and German.

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Directories

Chamber Music America Directory. New York: Chamber Music America, c1994-
FA-REF-4 ML19 .C5 2008 (Latest only in Arts Ref; earlier issues bound with the journal Chamber Music)
Directory of chamber music groups, performers and presenters in the United States.

College Music School Address Book (Bruce Murray, University of Alabama)
Organized by state, listing more than nine hundred college music programs in the United States.

Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U. S. and Canada. Binghamton, N. Y.: College Music Society.
FA-REF-4 ML13 .D57 (Latest only in Arts Ref)
Organized into three parts: departmental faculty list arranged by state (alphabetically by zip code), faculty by areas of specialization, faculty alphabetically.

Musical America: International Directory of the Performing Arts (Carnegie Mellon users only)
The business source for the performing arts. It contains information on thousands of artists, managers, orchestras, opera companies, dance companies, festivals, performing arts series, service organizations, competitions, music schools and more.
FA-REF-4 ML12 .M88 (Latest two years in Arts Ref)

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