Research Guides: HMU111: Introduction to Music and Society: Encyclopeadias

Encyclopaedias

Bloomsbury Collections: Music & Sound Studies 2021
Bloomsbury Collections offers excellence and originality in scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Explore the digital stacks in their expansive eBook library with titles that seek to educate, inspire, inform, and amplify the voices of all authors globally.

Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
Contains articles on almost every aspect of western music history, with extensive entries on composers, genres, places, and subjects.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
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 with annotations to help you choose the most helpful materials for your area of study.
Oxford Music Online
Hundreds of articles allow you research music on every continent. In addition to articles and recordings, this source also contains musical illustrations, photographs, drawings, song texts, score examples, and charts and maps of world regions.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online
A collection that brings together previously unpublished historic audio recordings and their supporting field materials, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context. It brings together 2,000 hours of audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s—the dawn of ethnomusicology as a codified discipline
Ethnographic Video Online
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume 2 (North America)
Performance Design Archive Online
International collection covering all aspects of theatre production design, from the 17th century through to the present day, including scenic and set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, and makeup.