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Some Print Resources at the WCC Library
- The
Dictionary of Composers, edited by Charles Osborne
(Reference
Collection, ML105 .D53 1978)
- Dictionary of twentieth-century composers (1911-1973) by Kenneth Thompson
(Reference Collection,
ML118 .T5 1973b)
- American composers : a Biographical Dictionary by David Ewen (Reference Collection, ML390 .E815 1982)
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians by Theodore Baker (Reference Collection,
ML105 .B16 199)
- Musical biography; memoirs of the lives and writings of
the most eminent musical composers and writers who have flourished in
the different countries of Europe during the last three centuries by William Bingley
(Reserve Collection, ML385
B61 1971)
- A Dictionary of American Composers by Neil Butterworth (Reference
Collection, ML106.U3 B87 1984)
- The Milton Cross New Encyclopedia of
the Great Composers and Their Music by Milton Cross, 2 volumes (Reserve Collection, ML385
.C7 1969)
Note: in the WCC Library, try browsing the ML390 to ML410 section in either the Main or the Reference collections.
In some cases, you'll find alternate spellings for a composer's name, such as Rachmaninoff and Rachmaninov. Look for items on the musical period (baroque), musical style (opera), or area (German music) associated with your composer. Use the table of contents and index in such books to find information about your composer.
Web Sites
Use Academic Search Premier from EBSCO to find magazine and journal articles about your composer.
Videos
(search for more books in the library using Voyager)
- Amadeus (DVD)
- Immortal Beloved (DVD)
Composing Music
- The muse that sings : composers speak about the creative process by Ann McCutchan (eBrary)
- Music with words : a composer’s view by Virgil Thomson (ML1406 .T5 1989)
For more resources, including online journal articles, check out the WCC Library main page. |
