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This is an excellent, scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search back-of-the-book indexes and article titles in thousands of reference books owned by Camden-Carroll Library. If it is an e-book you can access it. If it is a print book you can find its call number and then the volume and page numbers for your topic.

Oxford Music Online

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The authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by over 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe
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Is a unified search interface for several authoritative music reference works.
Subject Coverage:
composer biographies, performer biographies, styles, terms, genres, geographic areas, instruments, acoustics, notation, ancient music, church music, popular music, opera, and jazz
Dates of Coverage:
the most recent editions that are available online
Update Frequency:
three times annually
Size:
unknown
Note:
Includes:
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Grove Music Online
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition
The Oxford Companion to Music
The Oxford Dictionary of Music

Selected E-Book Encyclopedias for Music

Contemporary Musicians Provides biographical information on important figures in modern musical, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae. Ceased publication in 2015.
ISBN: 9781573024365 eISBN: 9781573024396
Encyclopedia of Popular Music - 2009 This encyclopedia's 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. Access limited to 1 user at a time.
ISBN: 9780195313734 eISBN: 9780199726363
Grove Music Online Is the world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
Oxford Companion to Music - 2011 Focuses on living composers and their music and 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.
ISBN: 9780199579037
Oxford Dictionary of Music - 2012 Offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history.
ISBN: 9780191744518
PRAXIS The Official Study Guide - Music: Content Knowledge & Music: Content and Instruction - Test Codes: 5113, 5114
Publication Date: 2014
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Supplemental audio files available at this address:
https://secureweb.moreheadstate.edu/restrictedfiles/library/ebooks/PRAXIS_study_guide_audio_files_5113_5114.zip