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Dictionaries

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. ASCAP Biographical Dictionary. 4th ed. New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1980. Hamon Reference: ML106 .U3 A5 1980

Anderson, Ruth. Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. 2nd ed. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1982. Hamon Reserve: ML390 .A54 1982

Baker, Theodore. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. 8th ed. Completely revised by Nicholas Slonimsky. New York: Schirmer Books, 1991. Hamon Reserve: ML105 .B16 1991

Butterworth, Neil. A Dictionary of American Composers. New York: Garland Pub., 1984. Hamon Reference: ML106 .U3 B87 1984

Randel, Don Michael, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986. Hamon Reference: ML100 .N485 1986

Sadie, Julie Anne and Samuel, Rhian, eds. The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers. London: Macmillan; New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1994. Hamon Reference: ML105 .N38 1994

Sadie, Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 20 vols. Reprinted with minor corrections. London: Macmillan, 1995. Hamon Reserve: ML100 .N48 1995

Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 4 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1992. Hamon Reference: ML 102.O6 N5 1992

Slonimsky, Nicholas. Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians. Laura Kuhn, ed. Dennis McIntire, assoc. ed. New York: Schirmer Books; London: Prentice Hall International, 1997. Hamon Reference: ML 105 .S612 1997

Encyclopedias

Cohen, Aaron I. International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. New York: Books & Music, 1987. Hamon Reserve: ML105 .C7 1987

Cooper, Martin, ed. The Concise Encyclopedia of Music. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1958. Hamon Reference: ML100 .C78

Ewen, David. Encyclopedia of the Opera. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963. Hamon Reference: ML102 .O6 E9 1963

Griffiths, Paul. The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of 20th-Century Music. London; New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986. Hamon Reference: ML197 .G78 1986

Lewine, Richard, comp. Encyclopedia of Theatre Music. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Hamon Reference: ML128 .S3 L5

Bibliographic Guides

Crabtree, Phillip. Sourcebook for Research in Music. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Hamon Reference: ML113 .C68 1993

Duckles, Vincent H., Ida Reed, and Michael A. Keller, eds. Music Reference and Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography. 5th ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997. Hamon Reserve: ML113 .D83 1997