Reference Shelf

Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz)

Coverage: Second edition.
Description: The authoritative standard for English-language music dictionaries, covering all aspects of music, including biographies, definitions of terms, musical examples, lists of works, links to sounds, etc. Includes The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, as well as The Oxford Companion to Music (2002) and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2d ed, revised (2006).
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IPA Source

Description: Contains over 3900 International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. IPA Source is searchable by composer, poet, title, opera aria and Latin text.
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RISM: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600 [EBSCO]

Coverage: after 1600 (mainly 1600-1850)
Description: The most comprehensive annotated index to music manuscripts produced after 1600 with 400,000+ records containing bibliographic information, manuscript locations, and musical incipits. Links to composer names, library sigla, and bibliographic citations.
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Musical America.com

Description: The online version of the annual Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts. Includes news, feature articles, and searchable industry listings which are updated quarterly.
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Oxford Dictionary of Dance

Description: The Oxford Dictionary of Dance offers wide coverage of dancers, choreographers, teachers, composers, technical terms, major works, important films, and organizations involved in the dance world.
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Oxford Companion to Music

Description: This new edition of the classic reference work includes articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, with specialist coverage of virtually every musical subject. [part of Oxford Music Online]
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Oxford Dictionary of Music

Description: Includes over 12,000 entries on composers, performers, conductors, directors, critics, and scholars; musical terms, styles, and forms; as well as instruments, individual works, performance venues, and a host of other topics. [part of Oxford Music Online]
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Grove Book of Operas

Description: A collection of synopses and descriptions of over 250 operas. Each entry is written by a leading authority on the opera and includes a full synopsis of the plot, a cast list, a note on the singers in the original production, and information on the origins of the work and its literary and social background.
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New Grove Book of Opera Singers

Description: The profiles offer basic information such as birth date, vocal style, first debut, and most memorable roles, as well as colorful portraits of the singer's personality and vocal style and evaluations of their place in operatic history.
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A Dictionary of Opera Characters

Description: Containing over 2,500 operatic characters, this guide gives plot synopses for over 250 operas and operettas, and details full information on each operatic role, including its creator and notable performers.
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RELICS: Renaissance Liturgical Imprints Census

Coverage: 1450 - 1600
Description: A database of citations to over 10,000 liturgical titles printed in Europe between 1450 and 1600, with listings of holding libraries in the U.S. and Europe.
Access: Open to all internet users.