Music: Reference Works

Centennial ed. 2001. Coverage has expanded with new entries on classical, jazz and popular music. Includes indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians. In 6 vols.

[Print]

by Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans. Mansell, 1997.

In 10 volumes.

by Vincent H. Duckles, Michael A. Keller (1988)

by Sampsel (2009). In High Demand Collection, Q Floor

In 2 volumes

2001. Includes index.

4th ed. 1997. Provides an exhaustive listing of all recordings of the period ... with full details on singers, accompanists, place and date of recording, titles, issue numbers, and alternate takes.

1987. Includes bibliography and indexes. Companion vol.: Movie musicals on record.

1989.

1989. Includes indexes.

Includes filmography and indexes.Companion vol. to: Broadway on record. 1987.

Folio. 1991. v. 1. Singles.

1985. Includes index.

2nd ed. 2011. An annotated bibliography to books, recordings, videos, and websites in the field of ethnomusicology.

Oxford University Press. 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

Contains synopses of 264 popular and commonly performed operas, arranged alphabetically and meant to be accessible to opera beginners and experts. Each entry describes the opera's genre, premiere, librettist, cast, composition, and musical features.

Covering over 1500 singers from the origins of opera to the present day, this book is a comprehensive resource for opera lovers. It features more than 40 specially commissioned articles on contemporary singers.

This work includes entries for 1,153 first performances of operas from Europe, the U.S., Latin America and Russia. Entries offer details about key persons, arias, other significant performances, interesting facts, and date and location of each premiere. There is a biographical dictionary with 1,288 entries on historical and modern operatic singers.

1992 Over 4,500 entries on individual composers; operatic works; principal operatic roles; well-known arias, choruses, scenes, and interludes; sources of ideas for operas; details of librettists and their sources; singers, conductors, producers, directors, designers, and entrepreneurs; histories of opera-houses, companies, institutions, and festivals; history of opera in individual countries; those whose thought influenced opera.

2018. Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

1989. Includes indexes.

Includes bibliographical references and discographies (pages 385-389), and indexes.

2nd ed. 2009. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1999. Includes index, discography and videography

2010. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

2nd ed. 2012. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

2nd ed. 2010.

covers all aspects of both African American and white gospel from history and performers to recording techniques and styles, as well as the influence of gospel on different musical genres and cultural trends. Entries include biographical profiles of numerous performers,
and influential figures in the development of gospel music, important events in the history of gospel etc.

by Irwin Stambler. Papermac, 1992

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. In 8 vols.

Stambler & Stambler. Thomas Dunne Books, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references. In 3 vols

uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject, genre, and song title.

2014. in 2 vols.

2010. Includes bibliographical references and index.

edited by Fintan Vallely. Cork University Press, 2011.

2018. Offers selected and annotated sources on free jazz, with comprehensive coverage of English-language academic books, journal articles, and dissertations, and selective coverage of trade books, popular periodicals, documentary films, scores, Masters theses, online texts, and materials in other languages.

2018. Includes bibliographical references and index.

2014. Includes bibliographical references, discography, videography and index

2014. Includes discographies and rollographies.

2017. Popular Music Theory and Analysis: A Research and Information Guide uncovers the wealth of scholarly works dealing with the theory and analysis of popular music. This annotated bibliography is an exhaustive catalog of music-theoretical and musicological works that is searchable by subject, genre, and song title.

Rev. ed. 2004. Contains vocal and instrumental music from the Middle Ages to the present, with introductory essays on each composer.

edited by Kristine H. Burns. Greenwood Press, 2002. In 2 vols.

1988. Includes discography and index.

1994. Includes discography, bibliographical references, and index.

2008. Includes bibliographical references and index.

by Pendle, Karin, Routledge, 2010