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Reference and Library Research

Library Research

Our library research area is located on our first floor. Items in library research generally circulate only to instructors, and only for one week. Much of library research is occupied by scores, particularly collected scholarly editions of composers' complete works, and series such as Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae and the various Recent Researches sets devoted to a music of a particular place, style, or era. Library research also contains facsimile editions of scores and books, and treatises and monographs of particular historical significance.

Reference

Our reference section also resides on the first floor. Unlike library research items, reference books never circulate, as they are meant to stay in the library at all times for all patrons. They consist of standard works to consult for music research, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, indexes, directories, handbooks, style manuals, and standard monographs.

There are a few reference items we keep on our second floor as well, at the end of our periodicals section. These items, marked "upstairs reference", are mostly duplicates of what we have on the first floor.

Below is a brief list of some of the most commonly used items in our reference collection:

Algemene Muziek Encyclopedie (REF ML 100 .A4 1979 v1-10)
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (REF ML 105 .B16 2001)
Contemporary Musicians (REF ML 197 .C671 v.1-51)
The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980 (REF ML 136 .L8 B62)
Enciclopedia Della Musica (REF ML 100 .E52 v.1-6)
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (REF ML 102 .P66 G84 1998)
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (REF ML 100 .G16 1998 v.1-10)
The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (REF ML 102 .P66 G84 1995)
Historical Sets, Collected Editions, & Monuments of Music (REF ML 113 .H52 1980, v.1-2)
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (REF ML 100 .m92 v.1-17; bds. 1-9)
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music (REF ML 101 .U6 N48 1986)
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz 2001 (REF ML 102 .J3 N48 2001 v. 1-3)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2000 (REF ML 100 .N48 2000 v.1-29) (also available through Oxford Music Online)
The New Grove Dictionary of Music Instruments (REF ML 102 .I5 N48 1984 v.1-5)
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (REF ML 102 .O6 N5 1992)
RIPM: Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale (ca. 90 volumes, various call numbers)
RISM: Repertoire International des Sources Musicales (REF ML 113 .I6-.I63)

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