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Music 230: African American Song Literature
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Research and Instruction Librarian for Music & Fine Arts
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Music Reference Databases
In addition to the online reference sources below, Halvorson Music Library has a large collection of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias in our reference section. located along the north wall of the library.
Additional reference volumes are shelved in the circulating stacks with cal numbers beginning ML 100.
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African American Music Reference This link opens in a new windowFull-text reference resource on African American music, covering blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other genres. Includes biographies, chronologies, lyrics, sheet music, liner notes, images, and discographies.
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Classical Music Reference Library This link opens in a new windowFull-text reference resource on all genres of classical music, medieval to contemporary. Includes dictionaries, encyclopedia articles, biographies, histories, and other materials.
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IPA Source This link opens in a new windowInternational Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias, art songs, and Latin sacred texts.
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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowFull-text collection of reference works on music across genres and eras.