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Music

This guide provides links to resources about music - in and beyond the CSM library.

Music Dictionaries

Hutchinson Pocket Dictionary of Classical Music
Musician's Dictionary by David W. Barber; Dave Donald (Illustrator); Yehudi Menuhin (Preface by)
Call Number: Online

For the Future Professional Musicians

The Professional Musician's Legal Companion by Michael Aczon
Call Number: Online
Great Jobs for Music Majors by Jan Goldberg; Stephen E. Lambert; Julie DeGalan
Call Number: Online
Making Music Your Business by Traci Truly
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781572484863
Publication Date: 2005

Music eReference

eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Thousands of digital books, including academic titles and popular fiction, for reading online. Most of these titles are currently NOT available in OneSearch; please search through the database here to locate titles.

A few examples below:

The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia by Eisen, Cliff Keefe, Simon P.
Call Number: Online
Popular Music: The Key Concepts by Shuker, Roy.
Call Number: Online
The NPR Classical Music Companion: Terms and Concepts From A to Z by Hoffman, Miles
Call Number: Online
Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound by Hoffmann, Frank W. Ferstler, Howard
Call Number: Online
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists by Ajay Kapur; Perry R. Cook; Spencer Salazar; Ge Wang
Call Number: Online
Publication Date: 2015
Tenors, Tantrums and Trills: An Opera Dictionary From Aida to Zzzz by Barber, David W. Donald, David C.
Call Number: Online

Musical Notation

Learning to Read Music by Peter Nickol
Call Number: Online
The Musician's Guide to Reading and Writing Music by Dave Stewart
Call Number: Online

Digital Music

O'Reilly Learning (formerly Safari Books Online) This link opens in a new window
Search (use the drop-down menu to narrow your search to titles) for "music" to browse titles on several aspects of music as digital media (how to store, organize and play digital media, how to create music with applications like GarageBand or open source applications, etc.)

Jazz in the Ebook Central (ProQuest)

Ebook Central (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Over 140,000 easy to access online books. Browse by subjects - literature, social sciences, life sciences, engineering and technology - or use the search box.