Reference material - a guide to selected print resources from the Library's collection

The Conservatorium Library has a large collection of print resources including Music Dictionaries, Bibliographies, and Thematic Catalogues. The Library also houses a substantial collection of Collected Sets.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians / edited by Stanley Sadie ; executive editor John Tyrrell.
London : Macmillan ; New York : Grove, 2001 2nd ed.
Con Music Ref N 780.3 40.1 - 40.29

The new Harvard dictionary of music / edited by Don Michael Randel
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press, c1986
Con Music Ref N 780.3 34

The Oxford dictionary of music / Michael Kennedy ; associate editor, Joyce Bourne.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
2nd ed.
Con Music Ref N 780.3 75

Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians /Centennial ed. Nicolas Slonimsky, editor emeritus
New York : Schirmer Books, c2001
Con Music Ref N 780.922 69.1 (Vs 1-6)

The new Kobbe's opera book / edited by the Earl of Harewood and Antony Peattiee.
London : Ebury Press, 1997.11th ed.
Con Music Ref N 782.1 2


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Histories and Chronologies

The New Oxford history of music London [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 1954-
Con Music Ref N 780.9 125 (Vs 1-10)

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Abstracting and Indexing Journals

Repertoire International de la Presse Musicale (RIPM)
UMI, 1990
A retrospective index series to selected 18th, 19th and early 20th century periodical literature dealing with music
Con Music Ref N 780.5/3-41

Music Index- Print
Con Music Serials P 016.78 MUS

Repertoire Internaional de Litterature Musicale (RILM Abstracts)
Con Music Serials P 780 INT 1

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Bibliographies and Indexes

Catalogue of printed music in the British Library to 1980
Saur, 1981
Con Music Ref N 016.78 65

Diamond, H.J. Music analyses: an annotated guide to the literature.
Schirmer, 1981
Con Music Ref N016.781 2

Duckles, V. Music reference and research materials
5th ed. New York : Schirmer Books, 1997
Con Music Ref N 016.78 20

The new handbook of research on music teaching and learning : a project of the Music Educators National Conference / editors, Richard Colwell, Carol Richardson.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
Con Music Reserve780.72 202

Heyer, A.H. Historical sets, collected editions and monuments of music 3rd ed.
Chicago : American Library Association, 1980
Con Lib Ref 016.78 14.2
Fisher Ref 016.78 70

Collected editions, historical series & sets & monuments of music : a bibliography /George R. Hill, Norris L. Stephens.
Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press, c1997
Con Music Ref N 016.78 81
Fisher Ref 016.78 161

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Thematic Catalogues

Brook, B.S. Thematic catalogues in music
Stuyvesant, NY : Pendragon Press, c1997
Con Music Ref N 016.78 9

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Repertoire Guides

Daniels, D. Orchestral music : a handbook
3rd ed. Scarecrow, 1996
Con Music Ref N 016.785 1

Goodenberger, J. Subject guide to classical instrumental music
Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1989.
Fisher Ref 016.78156 1
Con Music Ref N 016.78415 1

Hinson, Maurice Guide to the pianist's repertoire
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2000.
Con Music Ref N 016.7862 1

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Song translations, Guides

Fischer-Dieskau, D. The Fischer-Dieskau book of lieder : the original texts of over seven hundred and fifty songs
New York : Knopf, 1977, c1976
Con Music 782.42160943 1A

Phillips, L. Lieder line by line, and word for word
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996
Con Music Ref N 782.42168 1

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Collected sets

Corpus mensurablis musicae
American Institute of Musicology, 1966-
Con Music Ref N20 COR 1
Fisher Research

Musica Britannica
Stainer & Bell 1964-
Con Music Ref N20 MUS 1
Fisher Research

Recent researches in the music of the pre-classical, classical, and early romatic era
AR Editions, 1976-
Con Music Ref N20 PRE 1
Fisher Research

Recent researches in the music of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance
A-R Editions, 1964--
Con Music Ref N20 MID 1
Fisher Research

Recent researches in the music of the Renaissance
A-R Editions, 1946--
Con Music Ref N20 REN 1
Fisher Research

Recent researches in the music of the Baroque era
A-R Editions 1964-
Con Music Ref N20 BAR 1
Fisher Research

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Facsimiles

Cantatorium : IXe siecle : no. 359 de la Bibliotheque de Saint-Gall
Paleographie musicale. 2e serie, Monumentale ; 2
Con Music Q 782.292 2A

Paleographie musicale : les principaux manuscrits de chant gregorien, ambrosien,mozarabe, gallican, publies en fac-similes phototypiques par les Benedictins de Solesmes.
Berne : H. Lang, 1969-
Fisher Research 783.5 28 Vols 1 - 10

Mozart, W. A. The six 'Haydn' string quartets : facsimile of the autograph manuscripts in the British Library Add. MS 37763
London : British Library, 1985
Con Music Ref N MOZ 2 REF
Fisher Research M 785.7194 M939 33

Beethoven, Ludwig van Klaviersonate C-Moll, Opus 111 : im Faksimile der Urschrift Ludwig van Beethoven
Leipzig : C. F. Peters, [n.d.]
Con Music Ref N BEE 5 REF. MUSIC

Beethoven, Ludwig Van Sonate fur Klavier und Violine, G-dur, Opus 96 [music] : Faksimile nach dem im Eigentum der Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, befindlichen Autograph
Munchen : G. Henle Verlag, 1977
Con Music Ref N BEE 6

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