GSU Library Research Guides: Music: Background Info

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Music Terms

Baker's Dictionary of Music
Call Number: ML100.S635 1997
Location: Library North 1 | Reference
Music Abbreviations: A Reverse Dictionary
Call Number: ML100.H45 2005
Location: Library North 4
Musical Terms, Symbols & Theory: An Illustrated Dictionary
Call Number: ML108.T46 1989
Location: Library North 4

The home of Grove Music Online and other music resources.

Find information on:
   • Musicians & composers
   • Instruments
   • Country/region/cultural group music histories
   • Styles & genres of music

All entries contain lists for further reading.
Entries on composers include lists of works composed.

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
ISBN: 9780824060381
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Women Composers: Music Through the Ages
Call Number: M2.W88 1996
Location: Library North 1 | Reference
The Pro/Am Book of Music and Mythology
Call Number: ML3849.P75 1992
Location: Library North 4
Gives the back story on mythic figures & themes in music.
MGG | Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: Allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik
Call Number: ML100.M92 1994
Location: Library North 1 | Reference
A German encyclopedia of music. Further reading lists include materials in all languages.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians
Call Number: ML100 .N48 2001
Location: Library North 4

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