Music/Dance Library - General biographical sources
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.1996. Ref. ML105 H38 1996.
World Biographical Index of Music. 1995. Ref. ML105 I63 1995 vols. 1-2.
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 8th ed. 1992. Ref. ML105 B16 1992. Contains over 10,000 entries, many including works lists and bibliographic references.
Biography and Genealogy Master Index A comprehensive index to more than 10 million biographical sketches in some 1,000 current and retrospective biographical dictionaries, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.Greene, Composers on Record : an index to biographical information on 14,000 composers whose music has been recorded 1985. Ref. ML105 G78 1985. A valuable index to biographical entries in music dictionaries, encyclopedias, discographies, and other sources.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Oxford Online. 2000.
Ref. and Grad. Reading Room ML100 N48 2001 vols. 1-29. Articles include biographical information, works lists (for composers), and bibliographies.
Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Ref. ML100 B7 M8. German-language encyclopedia of music. Includes more detail than the New Grove Dictionary for certain entries, including additional works lists.
Compiled by Sean Ferguson
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