Research Guides: Music, Worship & Performing Arts: Composition and Music Theory: Reference

Electronic Reference Materials

Credo Reference (Academic Core Collection) This link opens in a new window
Over 700 encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and reference handbooks.
Naxos Music Library - Listening This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 1,586,800 tracks* of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music**. It includes the complete BIS, Chandos, Hänssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Naxos, Ondine and selected titles of other leading independent labels, with over 1,000 albums added monthly.

The Oxford Companion to Music
Call Number: eBook
Also Available Lancaster Reference ML 100 .S37 2002
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Call Number: Lancaster Reference ML 100 .N48 2001
Harvard Dictionary of Music
Call Number: Lancaster Reference ML 100 .A64 1969
Music Lovers' Encyclopedia
Call Number: Lancaster Reference ML 160 .M87 2001
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Call Number: Lancaster Reference BR 95 .O8 2005
Song Index: An Index to More Than 12,000 Songs in 177 Song Collections Comprising 262 Volumes and Supplement, 1934
Call Number: Lancaster Reference ML 128 .S3 S31 1966

Performing Arts Encyclopedia: Explore Music, theater, and dance at the Library of Congress.

American Sheet Music: Music for the Nation maintained by the Library of Congress.

American Memory Audio: Listen to music, interviews, field recordings, and more from the Library's historic sound recording collections.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
"The Artstor Digital Library features a wide range of multidisciplinary content from some of the world’s top museums, artists, libraries, scholars, and photo archives."