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Cambridge Companions to Music

Cambridge Companions to Music

Cambridge Companions to Music
Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics, written with the student, the performer and the music lover in mind. Each volume provides a carefully structured series of specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage and indispensable reference material as well as absorbing reading matter.

Online Collections for Music

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Naxos Music Library
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Scran
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British Library Sounds
Oxford Scholarship Online
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OSO Music
Music titles available in Oxford Scholarship Online (15 November 2021).

ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection
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The Purple Guide

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MusicAlly
Mintel Reports
Business Source Elite
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Emerald eJournals Collections
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WARC
The Purple Guide

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Online Collections for Music

The following resources are good for all subjects in the creative industries. Click on the tabs above to view subject specific resources.

Academic Search Complete
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InfoTrac General OneFile
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JSTOR
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Scopus
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Web of Science
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Project Muse
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Quick reference

The Oxford Dictionary of Music

Oxford companion to music

The Oxford Dictionary of Dance

Dictionary plus music

The Grove Book of Operas

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

The Grove Book of Opera Singers

Who Married Figaro? A book of opera characters

Oxford Reference Online (ORO)

Selection of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries and other subject reference works on everything from Art to Zoology.

Essential Reference

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Musical Performance

The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Music

Updated

The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory

The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Music

The Cambridge History of American Music

The Cambridge History of World Music

Music journals - Browzine