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Oxford Music Online is THE most comprehensive scholarly reference source for music available. Use it instead of Wikipedia! Go here for a quick overview of Oxford Music Online.
OneSearch searches the print and digital resources. For a scholarly alternative to Google, use OneSearch!
To be really thorough, use RILM, the most comprehensive index of music scholarship available.
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STEP 1: Claim your Account/Membership:
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STEP 4: Complete the registration information and set-up your account
STEP 5: Once complete, you are ready to Pay
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AVON: Academic Video Online (Now Alexander Street Press)
Note: This title includes Public Performance Rights and may be used for events that do not charge a fee. Should you have any questions, please complete the following form
Dance in Video (ASP)

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DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)
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Opera in Video

Oxford History of Western Music by Richard Taruskin The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial five-volume survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.Now this renowned work is available in paperback - both as a set and (for the first time) individually. This first volume examines classical music from the earliest works to the end of the sixteenth century. Taking a critical perspective, Taruskin sets the details of music, the chronological sweepof figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. He combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understoodit. He also describes how the context of each stylistic period - key cultural, historical, social, economic, and scientific events--influenced and directed compositional choices.Attractively illustrated and laced with brilliant observations, memorable musical analysis, and a panoramic sense of the interactions between history, culture, politics, art, literature, religion, and music, this volume is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand classical music.
ISBN: 9780195386301
Publication Date: 2009-07-27

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