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Music: Music History

Resource guide for use by students and faculty in the Music Department

Books and eBooks

Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) ML160 .T18 2005 (v. 1-6)
ISBN: 0195169794
Publication Date: 2005
A History of Western Music by J. Peter Burkholder; Donald Jay Grout; Claude V. Palisca
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) ML160 .G872 2010
Publication Date: 2009
Source readings in music history from classical antiquity through the romantic era by Strunk, W. Oliver (William Oliver)
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) ML160 .S89
Publication Date: 1950
Bach's legacy : the music as heard by later masters by Russell Stinson
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2020
Ten Masterpieces of Music by Harvey Sachs
Call Number: CARLSON General (4th fl) ML193 .S23 2021
Publication Date: 2021
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage by Sarah Baker (Editor); Catherine Strong (Editor); Lauren Istvandity (Editor); Zelmarie Cantillon (Editor)
Call Number: Electronic Resource
Publication Date: 2018

Databases and Journals

Library of Congress, Digital Collections, Music Division
The collection features digital archives of sheet music, manuscripts, historical images, books about music, and historic recordings.
Weiss Jazz History Database
A database of Jazz history containing biographies, interviews, events, collections, and more.
Early Music History Online from Cambridge

Other Online Resources

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music
An organization dedicated to the study and performance of 17th-century music, the SSCM also publishes the 'Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music,' a peer-reviewed electronic publication freely accessible online.
American Musicological Society
The AMS exists to expand understanding of music and sound through research, teaching, learning, and advocacy.
Society for Ethnomusicology
Founded in 1955 to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts.

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