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Recommended Online Sources
•Cambridge Histories of Music Authoritative information about western classical music, including separate volumes on 17th Century Music, 19th Century Music and 20th Century Music, American Music, and Western Music Theory. Available through Cambridge Histories Online.
•Grove Music Encyclopedia of music, musicians, composers, and history with emphasis on classical music, and including jazz. Available through Oxford Music Online, including links to Classical Music Library.
•International Encyclopedia of Dance Covers full spectrum of dance. Includes cultural and national overviews, plus entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
•Music Index Most comprehensive index of music periodical literature in existance. Can limit search to document type "Article". After running your search, click on the "Find It" button to connect to full text.
•Oxford Music Online - Includes Grove Music online encyclopedia, Oxford Dictionary of Music, Oxford Companion to Music, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin (4th edition, 2006)
•Oxford Companion to Music Authoritative information on all aspects of music in the Western classical tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present. Available through Oxford Music Online.
•Oxford Dictionary of Music Short authoritative entries on music topics, including composers with lists of works, performers, conductors, terms, forms, historical periods, instruments, venues and more. Available through Oxford Music Online.
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