Guides: Music: Reference Resources

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Grove Music Online
Grove Music only allows 3 users to simultaneously access an article. Please download the PDF or close out the browser when you are finished with an article. Offers scholarly perspectives on a wide range of topics: musical concepts, music history, compositional practice, and more. Includes biographies, images, musical examples, and links to audio and video.

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Offers scholarly perspectives on a wide range of topics: musical concepts, music history, compositional practice, etc
Extensive bibliographies
Over 5,000 images, musical examples, and links to audio and video

Credo Reference
Find quick facts and background information in over 600 reference sources. Then continue searching in the NOBLE catalog and other electronic resources right from the Credo search screen.
Grove Music Online
Grove Music only allows 3 users to simultaneously access an article. Please download the PDF or close out the browser when you are finished with an article. Offers scholarly perspectives on a wide range of topics: musical concepts, music history, compositional practice, and more. Includes biographies, images, musical examples, and links to audio and video.
Oxford Reference Online
Provides over 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias. Find facts, figures, definitions, quotations, translations, and illustrations covering 25 subject areas such as history, linguistics, medicine and health, music, and religion.