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International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Oscar Thompson
Call Number: Ref. ML100 .I57 1985
ISBN: 0396084125
Publication Date: 1985
Includes entries for composers with lists of works including date of composition or first performance, notable musical performers, and important orchestras.
American National Biography by John A. Garraty (Editor); Mark C. Carnes (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. CT213 .A68 1999
ISBN: 0195206355
Publication Date: 1999
American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music by Ruth M. Stone (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. ML100 .G16 1998
ISBN: 0824060350
Publication Date: 1997
A resource for learning more about music in world culture.
Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century by Alfred William Cramer
Call Number: Ref. ML105 .M883 2009
ISBN: 9781587655128
Publication Date: 2009
Contains biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Stanley Sadie (Editor)
Call Number: Ref. ML100 .N48 1980
ISBN: 0333231112
Publication Date: 1980

Genres, Caribbean and Latin America by John Shepherd (Editor); David Horn (Editor)
ISBN: 9781441141972
Publication Date: 2014
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music by Michael Kennedy (Editor); Joyce Bourne (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199203833
Publication Date: 2007
The Oxford Companion to Music by Alison Latham (Editor)
ISBN: 9780199579037
Publication Date: 2011
Who Married Figaro? A Book of Opera Characters by Joyce Bourne
ISBN: 9780199548194
Publication Date: 2009
Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music by Phil Hardy
ISBN: 057119608X
Publication Date: 2001
Musical Terms, Symbols and Theory by Michael C. Thomsett
ISBN: 9780786467570
Publication Date: 2012

How Musical Is Man? by John Blacking
ISBN: 0295953381
Publication Date: 1973
Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening by Christopher Small
ISBN: 9780819572240
Publication Date: 2011
Song Means: Analyzing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song by Allan F. Moore
Call Number: MT146 .M66 2012
ISBN: 9781409428640
Publication Date: 2012

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Music
Music appreciation
Musical instruments
Musicians
Composers
Women Composers

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M (1627-1844) Popular music
ML (385-403) Musicians
ML (459-1093) Musical instruments
ML (3919-3920) Music therapy
MT Music-Instruction and Study

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