Music

University of Dayton

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Roesch Library

2008

Music

Emily A. Hicks

University of Dayton, [email protected]

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Music

EMILY HICKS

Music reference sources continue to evolve, in part because of technological develop-ments and a broadening interest in nonclas-sical genres, including world music. A few classic works were removed from the list because they are no longer widely available. Others have been subsumed by new print or electrOnic works. General sources are listed first, followed by sources specific to one or two genres of music. Major categories include blues and jazz, classical, country and gospel, rock and popular, and world music. Works encompassing more than two genres of music are included'in the "General Sources" section. Several select online databases are included, and web links to related sources have been inserted into the narrative, as appropriate.

General Sources

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1203 A basic music library: Essential

Scores and sound recordings. 3rd ed. Elizabeth A. Davis, ed. 665p. American Library Association, 1997. ISBN 0838934617. $$

016.78026 MUl3

This selection and buying guide continues to be an important tool for building and evaluating music collections of all sizes. In addition to the more than 3,000 musical scores, the third edi-tion includes, for the first time, more than 7,000 sound recordings of worldwide scope. A three-tiered ranking system identifies resources suitable for small, medium-sized, or large libraries. Part 1, "Scores," is organized by type of score (e.g., score anthologies, orchestral music, chamber music, vocal music, solo performance), and each. entry contains composer, uniform title/title, publisher, language(s), and price. Although price and pub-lisher information are outdated, the relevance of the work to library collections remains. Part 2, "Sound Recordings," is organized within the broad topics of "Western Classical Music," "Traditional and Popular Musics of the Americas and Europe," and "Musics of the Non-Western World." Entries include author, title, publisher, physical format, and recording date. Although availability of the listed sound recordings, particularly in relation to physical format, may have changed since publica-tion, the lists are still valuable as a starting point for collection development.

1204 Music reference and research

materials: An annotated bibliography. 5th ed. Vincent H. Duckles, Ida Reed, and Michael A. Keller, eds. 812p. Schirmer Books, 1997. ISBN 0028708210. $

1205 MUSlC

This guide contains annotations of more than 3,500 signifIcant music reference sources, including more than 1,100 new titles in this fifth edition. Material is organized by category of publication, including guides, bibliographies, catalogs, directories, elec-tronic resources, dictionaries, and encyclopedias. Many entries include citations of published reviews. A Single, more user-friendly index has replaced the previous edition's four indexes. Although the sec-tion on electronic information resources is under-standably out-of-date, this text continues to be an important tool for music research.

1205 Song sheets to software: A guide to print music, software, and websites for musicians. 2nd ed. Elizabeth C. Axford. 267p. Scarecrow, 2004. ISBN 0810850273. $

780.26 ML74.7

Now in its second edition, this unique guide lists song sheets in print, music software, instructional media, and music-related websites for use by music educators or anyone wanting to learn more about music. New to this edition is the inclusion of in-structional DVDs and CD sets covering a range of topics, including scoring and notation programs, composition and songwriting software, digital re-cording and editing, computer-aided instruction, and music theory. The volume also includes a brief history of printed music, essays on music royalties and copyright laws, a list of technical terms, and a bibliography.

Databases and Indexes

1206 Alexander Street Press music online. Alexander Street Press. www

.alexanderstreet.comJproductsimuso.htm. Alexander Street Press Music Online delivers more than 160,000 tracks of diverse music from a var i-ety of genres, including classical, world, blues, and jazz. This unique online resource incorporates the music and liner notes [rom Classical Music Library, Smithsonian Global Sound [or Libraries, African American Song, American Song, and other online mUSic-listening databases as available into one online music library. Music Online is available on the Web through annual subscription. The service allows the creation of password-protected, cus-tom playlists and course folders with static URLs. Includes Baker's student encyclopedia oj music and Baker's biographical dictional) oj musicians.

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1212 The Harvard dictionary of music.

4th ed. Don Michael Randel, eel.

978p. Belknap Press, 2003. ISBN

0674011635. $

780 MUOO

The fourth edition of this classic music reference

work is often referred to as the essential s

ingle-volume music dictionary. The work has reverted

back to its original title, dropping the word new

that was added to the previous edition. Although

the focus is still Western classical music, many existing entries have been updated and new entries added, giving greater attention to world and pop-ular music and reflecting new developments in musical scholarship. Entries range [rom one or two

words to encyclopedia length. The volume includes

a list of contributors, bibliographical abbreviations,

drawings, and musical examples. Unlike other Single-volume music references, this work does not

include biographical entries.

1213 Music since 1900. 6th eel. Laura Diane

Kuhn and Nicolas Slonimsky 1174p.

Schirmer Reference, 2001. OF. ISBN

0028647874. $$

780 MU97

This sixth edition, the first published since famed musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky died in 1995, retains his unique mark while updating entries

to reflect the end of the twentieth century. This

detailed reference chronologically records

signifi-cant events in the history of music during the entire

twentieth century, including deaths, performances,

festivals, publishing milestones, and music-related documents from around the world. Entries provide

pertinent details in a single sentence. Some entries

contain further information from letters and other documents as well as Slonimsky's own insights. The volume includes a list of letters and documents, a

dictionary of terms, and an index. This entertaining

work provides a wealth of information about class

i-cal music, composers, and musicians. This edition

has more than 1,500 new entries.

1214 National anthems of the world. 11th ed. M.

J

Bristow, ed. 629p. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006. ISBN 9780304368266. $

MU627 784.4

Compiled in cooperation with embassies and

gov-ernments, this book is the definitive international

authority on the national anthems. Entries are

1215 MUSlC

score and lyrics when available. Words are pre-sented in the original language and English, with a transliterated phonetic version if necessary. The eleventh edition features the words and music for 198 coul1lries, including the new anthems for Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, and Timor-Leste.

1215 The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians. 2nd ed. Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, eds. 29v. Grove, 200l.

ISBN 0195170679. $$$ www

. grovemusic.com.

780.3 _MLlOO

The second edition of this indispensable reference work arrived simultaneously in print and online

in 2001. Even grander in size and scope than the laudable twenty-volume 1980 edition, this e di-tion expands to twenty-nine volumes, with entire volumes devoted to the appendixes and the index. With the addition of 6,500 new articles now total -ing 29,000, this edition expands its coverage of

non-Western music, such as Latin American and African music, and covers the developments in mUSicology during the last twenty years. Although Grove Music Online began as the online version of The new Grove dictionary oj music and musicians,

regular updates and editions to the content have

been continuous. Now Grove Music Online also includes The new Grove dictionary oj opera and the second edition of The new Grove dictionary oj jazz.

Grove Music Online has full-text searching and

links to related sites, including more than 500 musical examples. Overall, this is still the definitive Source [or music scholars. Although the price may seem high, consider that the volumes cost less than $100 each, and history has shown that new edi -tions do not arrive frequently.

1216 The Oxford companion to music. Rev. ed. Alison Latham, ed. 1434p. Oxford Univ. Pr., 2002. ISBN 0198662122. $

780 MLlOO

This new edition of the classic reference work replaces the Single-volume OxJord companion to

mLlsi.c (Scholes, 1938) and the subsequent l WO-volume New OxJord companion to music (Arnold, 1983). This Single-volume work provides entries on a broad range of topics, including biographies of composers and mUSicians, instruments, works, musical genres, and areas of current research. Western classical music is treated comprehensively although jazz and popular music are included as

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1219 This bu .

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( www.alexanderstreet.com/products/bakr.htm) . This online database with approximately 30,000 pages is available either by annual subscription or through one-time purchase of perpetual rights, with prices scaled to budget and size of stafr.

Blues

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Bibliographies

and Discographies

1221 The Penguin guide to jazz recordings. 8th ed, Brian Morton and Richard Cook. 1534p, Penguin, 2006, ISBN 9780141023274, $

781.65 MLl56.4

This substantial work continues to be a compre-hensive compilation of jazz recordings, Entries are alphabetical by artist with brief bi.ographical infor -mation and chronological disc reviews, A four-star rating system is used, and a crown symbol indi-cates the aULhors' personal favorites. The "Core Collection" deSignation, new in the seventh edition, identifies approximately 200 recordings that the autbors consider essential to any jazz library, With the 2006 edition, it will be published biennially,

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1222 The Billboard illustrated ency-clopedia of jazz and blues. Ted Drozdowski, Howard Mandel, and John Scofield. 352p, Billboard Books, 2005. ISBN 0823082660 $

781.6503 MLl02

This one-volume illustrated encyclopedia spans 100 years of music and provides a basic overview of jazz and blues music and artists, Each chapter covers one decade and contains separate sections for each genre, noting important artists, themes, and styles, Key Lracks of music demonstrating an artists' overall sound are examined, and popular melodies characterizing the music style of the time period are highlighted. The work contains lists of artists in each genre and instruments and equip-ment used to play jazz and blues, InterneL links to

sound files, a users' guide, a glossary, an index, and cross-references are also included.

1223 The new Grove dictionary of jazz. 2nd ed, Barry Dean Kernfeld, ed, 3v, Grove, 2002 ISBN 1561592846, $$

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WWW.grovemusic.com.

781.65

MLl02 This second ediLion builds upon the impressive first edition (1988), expanding to Lhree volumes

and adding 2,750 new entries, including 1,500 on

musicians who emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. This one-stop resource LO all things jazz provides alphabeLical entries for composers, performers, in-sLruments, Lerms, record labels, venues, and more. Many entries include bibliographies and selected

recordings when applicable. The work includes il

-lustrations, listings of abbreviations, a comprehen -sive bibliography of resources on jazz, a calendar

of births and deaLhs, and list of contributors. This work is now available online along with The new Grove dictionary oj music and musicians and The new Grove dictionwy oj opera, making regular updates

and editions to the content easy. Grove Music

Online has full-text searching and links to related Sites, including more than 500 musical examples.

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1224 The big book of blues: A biographical

encyclopedia. Robert Santelli. 559p.

Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0141001453. $

781.643 MLl02

This concise biographical encyclopedia is the

revised and updated edition of a work first

pub-lished in 1993. This edition profiles more than 650

blues artists, discussing each artist's career, style,

musical contribution, and essential recordings. The author's broad definition of the blues includes early rock, soul, swing, and boogie-WOogie,

allow-ing the inclusion of more artists and a more exten -sive view of the genre. A bibliography and index are included.

Classical Music

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bliographies and Discographies

1225 ClaSSical music: The listener's

companion. Alexander]. Morin, ed.

nOlp. Backbeat Books, 2002. ISBN

0879306386. $

781.6 MU56.9

This guide to classical recordings provides reviews and recommendations to help users decide which CDs to buy to suit their individual tastes. The scope

encompasses 500 composers over nearly 500 years.

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1230 The new Grove dictionary of opera. Stanley Sadie, ed. 4v. Groves

Dictionaries of Music, 1992. ISBN

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1231 The new Penguin opera guide. Rev.

ed. Amanda Holden. 1142p. Penguin, 2001. ISBN 0140514759 (pbk). $

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The Penguin concise guide to opera.

Amanda Holden. 593p. Penguin, 2005. ISBN 0141016825. $

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The new Penguin opera guide, first published in 1993 as The Viking opera gLlide, is a comprehensive, one-volume encyclopedia of composers and works

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of opera Litles conclude the volume. The Penguin

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1232 MUSIC

1232 The Oxford dictionary of musical

works. Alison Latham, ed. 213p.

Oxford Univ. PI., 2004. ISBN

0198610203. $

780 MLlOO

This inexpensive, accessible dictionary, based on The Oxford companion La music, provides brief entries of more than 2,000 musical works, encompassing a wide range of genres, including opera, ballet, ch

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1233 Dictionary of American classical

composers. 2nd ed. Neil Butterworth.

548p. Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0415938481. $$

780 MLl06

This volume provides synopses of more than 650

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composers. Michael Steen. 984p.

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1239 The Billboard book of top 40 hits.

8th ed. Joel Whitburn. 852p. Billboard Books, 2004. ISBN 0823074994. $

016.78164 MU56.4

Now in its eighth edition, The Billboard booh oj top

40 hits features America's most popular songs and artists from the beginning of the rock era through

2003. This work lists every song that charted in lhe top 40 on Billboard's pop-singles charts from

January I, 1955, through December 27, 2003, alphabetically listed both by artist and song title. Artisl entries include biographical information, chart information, and original label name and catalog number. A special record-holders section lists top artist and record achievements, including the top 100 hits of the rock era, the top 25 numb er-one hits by decade, the top 100 artists from 1955 through 2003, the top 25 artists by decade, and the number-one singles listed chronologically [rom 1955 through 2003. The illustrated volume pro-vides quick access to top 40s trivia.

1240 The Billboard book of top 40 Rand B

and hip-hop hits. Joel Whitburn.

8l3p. Billboard Books, 2006. ISBN 0823082830. $

016.781643 MLl56.4

This first edition lists top 40 music-chart information [or the most popular rhythm and blues (R&B) and hip-hop songs and artists [rom October 24, 1942, through December 25, 2004. In 1942 Billboard

magazine created the "Harlem Hit Parade," which

charted the musical genre that would become R&B. By 1963, in the wake o[ rock and roll, the R&B and pop charts were so similar that the R&B chart

was discontinued until 1965. Chart research [rom

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ea-tured hits by James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and the Supremes. Rap music entered the charts in 1979 with "Rapper's Delight" by the SugarhilI Gang and was popularized in the following decades by Ru n-D.M.C., LL Cool j, and others. Today the music of

hip-hop artists such as Usher, Jay-Z, and OutKast is considered "mainstream." Entries are alphabetical

by artist or group name and include brief bi ographi-cal data, date of song debut in the top 40, highest chan position achieved, total weeks in the top 40, and original record label information. The volume also includes an alphabetical song list and lists of top artist and record achievements.

1241 MUSIC

1241 The Green book of songs by subject: The thematic guide to popular music.

5th ed. Jeff Green. 1659p. Professional Desk References, 2002. ISBN

0939735105;0939735202 (pbk.). $

016.78242164 MLl56.4

Now in its fifth edition, The Creen book of songs

by subject organizes more than 35,000 songs inLO nearly 1,800 themes, such as desire, sadness, mar-riage, politics, animals, cars, and love. Entries span

100 years and cover all genres of popular music, including rock, country, R&B, rap, hip-hop, jazz,

oldies, contemporary hits, popular standards, tele-vision themes, and advertising jingles. Compiled over twenty-five years by a musiC-industry

pro-feSSional, this thematic guide lists songs, anists, selected discographies, and record labels. This fifth

edition includes 4,000 search terms and keywords in an expanded index with cross-references.

Databases and Indexes

1242 The children's song index, 1978-1993. Kay Laughlin et aI., comps.

153p. Libraries Unlimited, 1996.

ISBN 1563083329. $

016.78242 MLl28

This reference tool compiles 2,654 children's songs

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index of flrst lines, and a subjecl index wilh subjecl lhesaurus.

1243 Popular song index. Patricia Pate Havlice. 933p. Scarecrow, 1975. ISBN 081080820X. $ First supplement. 386p. 1978. ISBN 0810810999. $ Second supplement. 530p. 1984. ISBN 0810816423. $ Third supplement. 875p. 1989. ISBN 0810822024. $ 016.784 MU28 Fourth supplement, 1988-2002. 2005. ISBN 0810852608. $$ 016.78242164 MU28

The fourth supplemenl of the indispensable resource indexes 333 collections of popular songs

published from 1988 to 2002 in different genres,

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between 1940 and 1972. The firsl three suppl

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1244 SongCite: An index to popular songs. William D. Goodfellow. 433p. Carland,

1995. ISBN 9780815320593. $

016.78242164 MU28

Supplement 1. William D. Coodfellow.

400p. Garland, 1999. [SBN 081533298X. $

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Building on the venerable Song il1c/ex, b)' Minnie Sears 0926; repr., Shoe String Press, 19(6), and the

Popular song index, by Patricia Pate Hadicc, the

origi-nal edition indexes more than 7,000 composit ions

from 248 collections of popular songs published

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A variety of popular music genres arc represented,

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gos-pel, and holiday music. The resource cOlllains a hih -liography of indexed collections wilh cOITcsponding codes, an index of titles and firsl Iincs, an inde;; of

composers, and an index of works from mUSicals, films, and television. The supplemelll indexes 6,')00

popular songs published in 201 collections betwcen

1990 and 1996. The inclusion of first lincs as well as

Litles makes lhis resource particularly useful

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

1245 The American songbook: The singcrs,

songwriters and the songs. Ken Bloom. 320p. Black Dog and Lc\'enthal, 2005. ISBN 1579124488. $

782.4216409730904 tvlU+ 77

This visually striking volume presents an i\lust rateel

history of twentieth century American popular song and the 200 most prominent performers and son

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Foster, Richard Rodgers, Duke Ellington, and Cole

Porler. Each entry contains informalion ilhout the artist's life and career, famous songs, Important

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lOgraphles, and index. 1246 T _{he encyclo d'}

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hop, a selected discography of rap, a selected

bibli-ography, an index, and the Hip Hop Declaration o[

Peace, presented to the United Nations in 2002. 1248 Rock and roll year by year. Luke

Crampton and Dafydd Rees 599p. DK, 2005. ISBN 0756613345 Cpblc). $

781.66 ML3534

This volume records the history of rock and roll with clay-by-day entries ancl lavish photographs

marking mileslOnes o[ musical trends, artists' careers, recordings, and prominent industry insid -ers. The chronicle begins with the opening of Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Service on January 1, 1950, and ends with the death of punk icon and

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1249 The Rolling Stone encyclopedia of rock and roll: Revised and updated for the 21st century. 3rd eel. Patricia

Romanowksi. Bashe, Holly

George-Warren, anel John Pareles, eds. 1114p.

Fireside/Simon and Schuster, 2001.

ISBN 0743201205 $

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Now in its third edition, this authoritative en cyclo-pedia covers rock-and-roll artists [rom the 1950s

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1250 Baker's biographical dictionary of popular musicians since 1990.

1251 MUSIC

2v, Schirmer Reference, 2004, ISBN

0028657993, $$

781.64 MLl02

This excellent companion to Baker's biographical

dictionary of musicians focuses on artists impacting

the popular music scene since 1990, In contrast to

Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians which

emphasizes classical composers and lheir works,

this dictionary focuses on the musical recordings

of the included artists, Written for the general a

udi-ence, the enLries provide an overview of each artist's

career with birth and death data, genre, best-selling recordings since 1990, and selected discography, The majority of the almost 600 artists included

are from the rock/pop, rap, hip-hop, and rhythm

and blues genres, although country, classical, jazz,

world, and Latin artists are also included, Some art -ists such as Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys

are included for their commercial success, while

others, like the Beatles and Nirvana, are included

for their innovation and influence, The London

Symphony Orchestra is included because of its

pro-lific recordings-it released almost 100 albums in the 1990s alone, It has a long history of recording

movie sound tracks, including Superman, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars and has accompanied

a long list of popular artists, The appendix provides

historical context with essays on grunge music, rap music, the transformation of commercial radio,

and the music industry, A glossary, genre index, and general index are also included,

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1251 The rough guide to world music, vol. 1: Africa, Europe and the Middle

East. 3rd ed, Simon Broughton, Mark

Ellingham, and Jon Lusk 898p, Rough

Guides, 2006, ISBN 1843535513. $

780,9 MLl02

The rough guide to world music, vol. 2: Latin and North America, the

Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. 2nd

eel. Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham,

and James McConnachie, 673p, Rough

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