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Selected Composer Research Guides

Claudio Monteverdi: a research and information guide by Susan Lewis Hammond; Maria Virginia Acuña; Susan Lewis
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML134.M66 L49 2018
ISBN: 9780415837330
Publication Date: 2018-01-25

Online Bach Bibliography
Continually updated scholarly bibliography under the auspices of the Leipzig Bach Archive

The Routledge Research Companion to J. S. Bach by Robin A. Leaver (Editor)
ISBN: 9781409417903
Publication Date: 2016-11-29
C. P. E. Bach: a guide to research by Doris Powers; Guy A. Marco (Editor)
ISBN: 9780815321798
Publication Date: 2002-04-19
G. F. Handel: a guide to research by Mary Ann Parker
ISBN: 9780415943239
Publication Date: 2005-05-23
The Cambridge Handel Encyclopedia by Annette Landgraf (Editor); David Vickers (Editor)
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML410.H13 C23 2009
ISBN: 9780521881920
Publication Date: 2009-11-26
The Ashgate Research Companion to Henry Purcell by Rebecca Herissone
ISBN: 9780754666455
Publication Date: 2012-05-28
The Vivaldi Compendium by Michael Talbot
Call Number: Music Library ML410.V82 T35 2011
ISBN: 9781843836704
Publication Date: 2011-07-21
The Rameau Compendium by Graham Sadler
Call Number: Music Library ML410.R2 S235 2014
ISBN: 9781843839057
Publication Date: 2014-06-19
Oxford Composer Companions - Haydn by David Wyn Jones
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML410.H4 H3177 2002
ISBN: 0198662165
Publication Date: 2002-06-06
Christoph Willibald Gluck: a Guide to Research by Patricia Howard
ISBN: 0415940729
Publication Date: 2003-06-24
The Mozart-Da Ponte Operas by Mary Du Mont
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML134.M9 D86 2000
ISBN: 0313304130
Publication Date: 2000-03-30
The Cambridge Mozart Encyclopedia by Cliff Eisen (Editor); Simon P. Keefe (Editor)
Call Number: Music Library Reference ML410.M9 C257 2006
ISBN: 0521856590
Publication Date: 2006-01-04

Key Reference Books

Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Search encyclopedia entries on all aspects of music, including composers, performers, terminology, musical genres and forms, orchestras, and institutions
Oxford Bibliographies: Music This link opens in a new window
An essential resource for recent peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on composers and musical genres. Entries on Monteverdi, Mozart, Haydn, J.S. Bach, CPE Bach, Lully, Baroque Music, Continuo, and many others.
Oxford History of Western Music This link opens in a new window
Search encyclopedic entries related to Western classical music. Written by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin