Reference:MUSIC AND DANCE

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Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM) Joint project of New York University and New World Records. A "scholarly resource of recordings, including CD quality audio, liner notes and essays from New World, Composers, Recordings and other important labels. Nonsubscribers may search the catalog, read liner notes, including bibliographies and discographies. Search by composer, artis, ensemble, insturment and record label.

Music and Dance Guide: http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/guides/music.shtml

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Ref ML 100 N48 2001) 29 vols. (also online)

New Oxford History of Music (Ref ML 160 N44) 10 vols.

Contemporary Musicians (Ref ML 385 C615) 35 vols.

JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance (Media Center) (30 videocassettes and guides)

International Encyclopedia of Dance (Ref GV 1585 I586 1998) 6 vols.

Journal article indexes and databases:

RILM
ERIC
Music Index Online
Music Index (Ref ML 118 M84). (Only through 2005)
Gramofile: http://www.gramofile.co.uk/cdreviews.asp

All Music Guide (searchable by artist, album, song, genre, and label)

The SDSU Music Department has sheet music and a "listening collection" in their Audio/Visual Library

Library Media Center has CDs, audiocassettes, LPs, etc.

Special Collections in the Library has several fine collections of sheet music

Also see Music Scores and Finding Lyrics to Songs and Sheet Music

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