HMU126: Historical Survey II, 1750-present

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.

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.

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.

Provides an overview of people within the geographical and social framework of Canada. Each group entry outlines origins; migration; arrival and settlement; economic life; community life; family and kinship; culture; education; religion; politics; intergroup relations; group maintenance and ethnic commitment; and bibliography. The native peoples, or First Nations, are listed under an entry called Aboriginals which is subdivided into major linguistic groupings. Included are peoples "made" in Canada such as the Acadians, Amish, French Canadians, Metis, and Mormons and groups who no longer exist such as the Basques. World regional identities for Arabs, Caribbean Peoples, and South Asians in Canada are also noted.