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Provides access to the core music reference source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. See especially the Grove article on Shostakovich by Laurel Fay and David Fanning.
Search encyclopedic entries related to Western classical music. Written by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin
You can search for articles using the All tab or Articles tab on the Duke Libraries Homepage, or in the specialized databases listed below for a more targeted search:
Shostakovich and Stalin: the extraordinary relationship between the great composer and the brutal dictator by 
Stalin's Music Prize: Soviet culture and politics by 
