Subject Guides: Music: eReference

Music/Performing Arts Librarian

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Subjects: Arts Management, Dance, Performing Arts

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Access to Oxford Music Online 3 concurrent users. Oxford Music Online is an integrated music resource on the web, including the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (second edition; 29 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes), The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (second edition; 3 volumes), The Oxford Dictionary of Music (second edition), and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Oxford Reference Library This link opens in a new window
A full collection of more than 200 scholarly reference resources, including dictionaries and subject specific works.
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Contemporary Musicians This link opens in a new window
Contains biographical information on more than 3,600 important figures in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music This link opens in a new window
Contains over 1,200 essays on the indigenous, popular, and classical music of every region in the world.
Bloomsbury Popular Music This link opens in a new window
Contains the contents of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, the 33 1/3 book series, and other reference titles.

A Dictionary of Opera Characters
A reference work containing over 2500 A-Z entries on operatic characters. Includes synopses for over 200 operas and operettas, as well as feature articles written by well-known personalities from the world of opera, including Placido Domingo and Dame Janet Baker.
IBDB: Internet Broadway Database
IBDB is the official source for Broadway information. It provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.

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