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  • Oxford Music Online
    Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.
    Coverage: Details not available.
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  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
    RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes.
    Coverage: 1967-.
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  • IPA Source
    Study aid for aria and art song texts. Provides a literal translation and a transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) as a diction guide. Includes texts in French, Italian, German, Spanish, English and Latin.
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  • Music Online: African American Music Reference
    Chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Contains full text from major reference works, biographies, and personal narratives from oral histories. Manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
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  • Music Online: Classical Music Reference Library
    Brings together a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker’s Dictionary of Music, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker’s Student Encyclopedia of Music.
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  • Music Online: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
    The full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 9000 pages) that allows for in-text searching. Contains 300+ associated audio examples, musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: British and Irish Literature
    Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include British and Irish authors, works, themes, genres, and history.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Hinduism
    Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Hinduism. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Hindu Studies.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Jewish Studies
    Authoritative, scholar-developed research guide covering Jewish Studies. It combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a subject encyclopedia, guiding researchers to the best available scholarship in Jewish Studies.
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  • Oxford Bibliographies Online: Music
    Offers authoritative research guides that combine features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Subjects covered include composers, performers, critics and scholars; genres and styles; music history and theory; instruments and instrument makers; ethnomusicology and world music studies.
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  • Oxford Music Online
    Covers all aspects of music worldwide, including composers, performers, other persons involved with music, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, institutions, and cities and towns with significant musical traditions.
    Coverage: Details not available.
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  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
    RILM Abstracts of Music Literature is a comprehensive bibliography on writings about music featuring citations, abstracts, and indexes. It covers over one million publications from around the world on traditional music, popular music, classical music, and related subjects. Coverage begins in the early 19th century and extends to the present.
    Coverage: 1967-.
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