Music

• At Gateway to the Internet > Music and sounds there are specially selected web sites on many kinds of music, on song lyrics and on music theory
• The huge music resource Oxford Music Online gives you 50,000 expert articles on all kinds of music, along with many links to sound files so that you can hear examples

Oxford Music Online includes the complete 'Grove Music Online' collection, which itself gives you the full texts of the following standard reference works:
 

New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (whose printed version is in 29-volumes) New Grove Dictionary of Opera New Grove Dictionary of Jazz Encyclopedia of popular music Oxford companion to music Oxford dictionary of music

You can also browse printed versions of these works in the main Bedfordshire libraries. See Printed music reference books at Bedfordshire libraries

Oxford Music Online is part of the Virtual Library's Reference books online service

• You can search for information on music and musicians in other Reference books online services too:

the Credo Reference section on music gives you concise information in 'The Faber companion to 20th century popular music', 'The Harvard biographical dictionary of music', 'The Harvard dictionary of music' and 'The new Penguin dictionary of music'

the Oxford Reference Online section on performing arts includes 'The concise Oxford dictionary of music', 'The Oxford companion to music', 'The concise Oxford dictionary of opera' and 'Who's who in opera'

the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives you detailed articles on notable musicians from British history, excluding living people

• Are you trying to track down some half-remembered words that may be from a song or perhaps from a poem or other source? See the tips at the Quotations pages
• For local music information, see You and Your Community (YoYo)
• Find more music books at the library catalogue
• If you need help to find information, contact us

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Enjoying singing - information to get you started