Music History

Music History - Wales

Print Sources

Catalogue 

Encyclopaedias

• • • The Great Composers: Their Lives and Times (REF 780.92 GRE)

Index on table, other volumes in the reference section, up the ramp and on the back wall of the library

• • • The Marshall Cavendish Illustrated History of Popular Music (REF 784.5 MAR)

Index on table, volumes 1-20 in the reference section, up the ramp and on the back wall of the library

• • • Music in the 20th Century (REF 780.9 MUS)

Three volume set on table

• • • Musicians & Composers of the 20th Century (REF 780.92 MUS)

Index on table, volumes 1-4 in the reference section, up the ramp and on the back wall of the library

Electronic Sources

Encyclopedias

• • Salem Press (password required)

    • Musicians and Composers of the Twentieth Century  

    • Music Innovators

  • Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.

Databases

• • Pop Culture Studies (Gale)

It’s all around us and influences our lives every day. This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals. Try the Topic Finder. 

• • Fine Arts and Music Collection (Gale)

Fine Arts and Music Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines that support research in areas including drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The database emphasizes full-text content for publications included in the Wilson Art Index and RILM bibliography.

• • History Reference Center (EBSCO)

History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.

• • U.S. History Collection (Gale)

U.S. History Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines useful to both novice historians as well as advanced academic researchers. The database offers balanced coverage of events in U.S. history and scholarly work being established in the field.