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Electronic resource. Comprehensive music reference source. Useful starting point for research. Contains over 50,000 signed (authored) articles, most with bibliographies. Updated continuously. Includes Grove Music Online, combining:
» The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed. (2001), » The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), » The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed. (2002), » The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd ed. (2013), » The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd ed. (2014).
Also includes: » The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2nd ed. (2006), » The Oxford Companion to Music (2011).

Print resource: CCM Ref ML100 .M92 1994, 29 vols.
Often referred to as MGG. Equal in scope and significance to Grove, but text in German. Particularly useful for German and Central European subject areas.
Online version: https://mgg-online.com/ (no UC subscription for full access, but public view gives partial access).

Print resource: CCM Ref ML100 .G16 1997, vol. 1-10. New York: Garland Pub., 1997-2002.

Electronic resource. 4th ed., edited by Colin Larkin. [Oxford; New York]: Oxford University Press, 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. The expanded Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals.

Electronic resource. Edited by Don Michael Randel. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003; Boston: Credo Reference, 2012.
Wide ranging and reliable, this treasure trove includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today's beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML105 .D65 1985, vol. 1-8. Edited by Alberto Basso. Text in Italian. Torino: UTET, 1985-88.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML101.S7 D53 1999, vol. 1-10. Text in Spanish. [Spain]: Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, 1999-2002.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML102.Z37 D53 2002, vol. 1-2. Text in Spanish. [Madrid]: Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales, 2002-03.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML102.J3 V57 2004. Edited by Colin Larkin. London: Virgin in association with Muze UK Ltd., 2004.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML102.J3 C66 2005. By Richard Cook. London; New York: Penguin, 2005.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML3561 .J3E55 1960. Edited by Leonard Feather. New York: Horizon Press, [c1960].

Print resource: CCM Ref ML102.M88 G3 2001, vol. 1-3. By Kurt Gänzl. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML102.B35 R4 1991, vol. 1-3. By William H. Rehrig; edited by Paul E. Bierley. Westerville, OH: Integrity Press, 1991-96.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML390 .I58 1999, vol. 1-2. Editor: Samuel A. Floyd Jr. Chicago; London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999.

Print resource: ML105 .B2 2001, vol. 1-6. 8th ed., rev. & edited by Nicholas Slonimsky. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.

Print resource; ML105 .S612 1997. By Nicholas Slonimsky, edited by Laura Kuhn. New York : Schirmer Books, 1997.

Print resource: ML102.P66 B35 2004, vol. 1-2. Edited by Stephen Wasserstein. New York: Schirmer Reference; [Farmington Hills, MI]: Thomson/Gale, 2004.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML102.J3 F4 1999. By Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
This book is based in part on Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of jazz, The new encyclopedia of jazz, and The encyclopedia of jazz in the sixties and on a subsequent work ... The encyclopedia of jazz in the seventies. The biographical encyclopedia of jazz is a thorough revision, recasting, and expansion of these books.

Print resource: CCM Ref ML105 .W4, annually 2003-2016. London: Europa Publications Ltd., 2004-16.

Print resource: ML105 .I58, 5th ed (2003), 8th ed. (2006). International Who's Who in Music, vol. 2: Popular Music. Companion volume: International Who's Who in Classical Music.