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Research Guide: General Music Resources
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|The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
||ML100 .N48 1980 (20 volumes)
|The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
||ML100 .T47 1964
|The Great composers, their lives and times
||ML390 .C7185 1990 (5 volumes)
|The Encyclopedia of Opera
|The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music
||ML100 .P4 1989
|How to listen to great music : a guide to its history, culture, and
||MT6 .G76 2011
|How music works : the science and psychology of beautiful sounds,
from Beethoven to the Beatles and beyond
||ML3805 .P69 2010
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Production Music Association: http://pmamusic.com/
National Association of Record Industry Professionals: http://www.narip.com/
Library of Congress Recorded Sound Reference Center: http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/record/
National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org
The All Music Guide (Popular Music): http://www.allmusic.com/
Metropolitan Opera, New York City: http://www.metoperafamily.org/
New York Philharmonic Orchestra: http://nyphil.org/
Boston Pops--Boston Symphony Orchestra: http://www.bso.org/
The Classical Music Navigator: http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/music/
DMOZ.ORG--Open Directory Project Classical Music Directory Links: http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Styles/C/Classical/
Billboard Music: http://www.billboard.com
Need Lyrics? Just Google -- www.google.com -- and search for the song name followed by the word 'lyrics'
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