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African American Music Reference
African American music has played an integral role in the development of music worldwide. This comprehensive reference database chronicles the rich history of African American music through 1970. It brings together the most important reference texts in this subject area, including discographies, and bibliographies—together with songsheets, images, and other print resources.

Classical Scores Library
Includes 400,000 pages of the most popular music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores.

Classical Music Reference Library
More than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online

A “comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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