MUS202: Beethoven

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Encyclopaedias and other Reference Works

Beethoven-Haus Bonn digital archive This link opens in a new window
The Digital Archive makes the inventory of the Beethoven-Haus and its contents accessible for research, use and the general public. Beethoven's life and oeuvre can be experienced in a multimedia way through linked image, text and audio data. You can find high-quality colour scan facsimiles of music manuscripts, written documents, music prints, pictures and and more.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Available through Oxford Music Online, Grove Music contains articles on almost every aspect of western music history, with extensive entries on composers, genres, places, and subjects. There's a particularly great article on Beethoven work checking out.
Music - Oxford Bibliographies This link opens in a new window
This source includes brief entries on various people, places, genres, and other subjects similar to Grove Music, BUT also includes curated and up-to-date bibliographies -- including one on BEETHOVEN! -- with annotations to help you choose the most helpful materials for your area of study.
Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new window
Electronic access to this 5-volume set includes: v. 2. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- v. 3. The nineteenth century -- v. 4. The early twentieth century -- v. 5. The late twentieth century.
The author (Richard Taruskin) is provocative and outspoken, and challenges traditional interpretations of the music.