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Essential: Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online »
Maximum simultaneous users: 3. Full text, online version, of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , with annual updates (updated articles are date-stamped in the upper right corner of the screen). This online edition contains information on all genres of music: from medieval to classical; jazz to popular music.

Oxford Handbooks Online »
Oxford Handbooks Online in Music form a network of reference articles on current scholarship in all areas of music research including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, pedagogy, dance, and technology.

Oxford Bibliographies Online »
Oxford Bibliographies in Music combines the best features of a high-level encyclopedia and a traditional bibliography in a style tailored to meet the needs of today’s online researchers. Each article, written and reviewed by top scholars in the field, is rich with citations and annotations, expert recommendations, and narrative pathways to the most important works for virtually all areas of music.

Encyclopedia of Popular Music
This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. This encyclopedia includes more than 9,000 pages of material and 300 audio recordings, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world.

Grove Dictionary of American Music by Charles Hiroshi Garrett
ISBN: 9780199739257
Publication Date: 2013
The articles of the dictionary range from small definitions of dance styles and musical terms to mid-length biographies of important performers, composers and music patrons, to longer examinations of larger subjects such as the history of jazz, musical instruments, music education in the United States, and the American history of the orchestra.
Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel
ISBN: 0674011635
Publication Date: 2003
Encyclopedia-length articles by notable experts alternate with short entries for quick reference, including definitions and identifications of works and instruments. More than 220 drawings and 250 musical examples enhance the text.

Oxford History of Western Music
The Oxford History of Western Music online offers an unmatched account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.