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Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
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Access to Grove Music Online and other music reference titles from Oxford University Press. Limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
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Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos.

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The OED is the unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of English-language words, both present and past.

Browsing by LC call number

Library of Congress Cutter Schedule from Yale University
This resource enables you to further hone your call number search by finding the unique Cutter number assigned to the composers listed
Library of Congress Guide to Music Call Numbers
Contains LC cataloging schedule for M, ML, and MT