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The King Library may not always own the items listed in the resources below. Search HAL to see if the library owns or subscribes to a particular resource.
Sample HAL Searches:
| Find items by Keyword | romanticism AND Debussy |
| Find items by Subject Heading | Debussy Claude 1862-1918 |
| Find items by Title (book or periodical) |
the choral journal |
When researching for music as a subject, select "subject search" type your subject term/s. For example, counterpoint
When searching for criticism of a musician or of the musician's composition, search the composer as a subject with the subheading Criticism and interpretation. For example, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Criticism and Interpretation.
See also "How Do I Find Music In the King Library?"
Biography | Guides | Directories | Dictionaries & Handbooks | Catalogs | Discographies | Music History | Music Criticism | Bibliography | Individual Composers
| The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Ref ML 100.N48 |
| Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | Ref ML 105.B16 |
| Composers of Yesterday | Ref ML 105.E94 C62 |
| Living Musicians | Ref ML 105.E95 |
| Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music | Ref ML 105.H38 1996 |
| Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth Century Classical Music | Ref ML 105.S612 1997 |
| Women Composers | Ref ML 105.S7 |
| Contemporary American Composers | Ref ML 390.A54 1982 |
| American Composers Today | Ref ML 390.E82 |
| European Composers Today | Ref ML 390.E834 |
| Popular American Composers | Ref ML 390.E845 |
| Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States, 1629-Present | Ref ML 390.F94 1994 |
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| Christmas Carols: a Reference Guide | Ref ML 102.C3 S9 |
| Music Reference and Research Materials: an Annotated Bibliography | Ref ML 113.D83 |
| A Basic Music Library | Ref ML 113.M8845 |
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| Music Industry Directory | Ref ML 13.M505 |
| Composers and Their Music | Ref ML 113.G4 1978 |
| New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians | Ref ML 100.N48 |
| Dictionary of Early Music | Ref ML 100.R695 1981 |
| New Harvard Dictionary of Music | Ref ML 100.N485 |
| New Grove Dictionary of American Music | Ref ML 101.U6 N48 |
| Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music | Ref ML 102.J3 S78 |
| New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments | Ref ML 102.I5 N48 1991 |
| Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre | Ref ML 102.M88 1994 |
| New Grove Dictionary of Opera | Ref ML 102.O6 N5 |
| Encyclopedia of the Piano | Ref ML 102.P5 E53 |
| Rock On: the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock N' Roll | Ref ML 105.N49 |
| Musical Morphology: a Discourse and a Dictionary | Ref ML 108.L48 |
| Rodgers and Hammerstein Fact Book | Ref ML 128.M78 G73 |
| American Musical Theatre | Ref ML 1711.B67 |
| New York Philharmonic Guide to the Symphony | Ref MT 125.D68 |
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| Recorded Classical Music: a Critical Guide to Compositions and Performances | Ref ML 156.9.C63 |
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| New Oxford History of Music | Ref ML 160.N44 |
| World Chronology of Music History | Ref ML 161.E4 |
| Virgin Directory of World Music | Ref ML 3470.S95 1992 |
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| Music Criticism | Ref ML 113.D5 |
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| An Index of Gregorian Chant | Ref ML 102.C45 B8 |
| Historical Sets, Collected Editions and Monuments of Music | Ref ML 113.H52 |
| Medieval Music: the Sixth Liberal Art | Ref ML 114.H8 |
| Sacred Cantatas | Ref ML 128.C15 E9 |
| Christian Choral Music: a Catalog of Catalogs | Ref ML 128.C54 B47x 1991 |
| Church Music: an International Bibliography | Ref ML 128.C54 V66 |
| Index to Opera, Operetta and Musical Comedy Synopses in Collections and Periodicals | Ref ML 128.O4 D76 |
| Literature for Voice: an Index of Songs in Collections and Source Book for Teachers of Singing | Ref ML 128.S3 G64 |
| Songs of the Theater | Ref ML 128.S3 L55 |
| Great Song Thesaurus | Ref ML 128.S8 L4 |
| New Kobbe's Complete Opera Book | Ref MT 95 .K52 1976 |
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| Bach Cantatas Requiring Limited Resources | Ref ML 134.B1 B9 1984 |
| Thematisch-Systematisches Verzeichnis der Musickalischen Werke von Johnann Sebastian Bach | Ref ML 134.B155 A35 1990 |
| Beitrage Zur Beethoven-Bibliographie | Ref ML 134.B4 B44 |
| Das Werk Beethovens: Thematisch-Bibliographisches Verzeichnis | Ref ML 134.B4 K5 |
| Frederic Chopin: Thematisch-Bibliographisches Werkverzeichnis | Ref ML 134.C54 A315 |
| Franz Schubert:Thematisches Seiner Werke in Chronologischer Folge | Ref ML 134.S38 A15 |
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