Reference & Background
Reference & Background
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Oxford Music Online
Comprehensive online reference resource for the field of music.Formerly Groves Music Online, this resource is a full text encyclopedia. Explore biographies of composers, performers, writers and more. Hear music samples that demonstrate key concepts. -
African American Music Reference
African American Music Reference brings together of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database strives to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.Text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. -
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first 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. Essays and images and hundreds of audio examples.Resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Essays, images and hundreds of audio examples
