• World music : the basics
  ML3545 .N54 2005

• Essential dictionary of music notation
  MT35 .G494 1996

• The Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of music
  ML100 .B38 2003

• The Harvard dictionary of music
  ML100 .A64 2003

• Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians
  ML105 .B16 2001

• Writing about music : an introductory guide
  ML3797 .W54 2002

• Free jazz and free improvisation : an encyclopedia
  ML102.J3 J46 2004

• The Rolling stone encyclopedia of rock & roll
  ML102.R6 R64 2001
  

Library Databases

• Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Web of Knowledge (aka Web of Science, ISI Citation Indexes)
• Music online:a comprehensive, cross-searchable music database that include these databases
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Jazz Music Library
• Oxford Music Online (Formerly known as Grove Music Online)
• T&F Online: Full-text articles (1997-present) from 1,077 journals published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press

• Understanding the fundamentals of music (DVD)
  MT7 .G744 2007
  

• Music from the inside out (DVD)
  MT6 .M96 2004
  

• How to listen to and understand opera (DVD)
  ML1700.1 .G74 1997
  

• Jazz (DVD)
  ML3506 .J38 2000
  

• The blues : a musical journey (DVD)
  M1366 .M36 2003
  

• Hip-hop: beyond beats and rhymes (DVD)
  ML3531 .H57 2006
  

• The Beatles anthology (VHS)
  ML421.B4 B39 1996
  

• The golden age of the piano (DVD)
  ML650 .G65 1994
  

• Music Selection
• Music Resources
• Music History 102
• Music Theory
• Popular Songs in American History

Also see a list of related free websites at http://ikedalibrary.soka.edu/web_subject.html#art

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