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MUH 530: Histories and Chronologies

Western

ML161.W613 Worner, Karl. History of Western Music: A Book for Study and Reference. New York: Free Press, 1973.

ML160.S48 2000 Slonimsky, Nicolas. Great Composers and Their Music. New York, Schirmer, 2000

Norton History of Music Series (Individual titles shelved by time period)

ML160.T18 2010 Taruskin, Richard. Oxford History of Western Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. (6 vols.)

Oxford Music Online – This online resource would be useful in almost every research category. Containing the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, the Oxford Companion to Music, and The Oxford Dictionary of Music. 

Prentice Hall History of Music Series (Individual titles shelved by time period in general collection.)

ML172  Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance

ML193  Baroque

ML195  Classical

ML197  Twentieth Century

ML160.S32 1982  Schirmer History of Music. Leonie Rosenstsiel, general ed. New York: Schirmer Books, 1982.

Western

American

 

ML200.C5 1966 Chase, Gilbert. America’s Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. Rev. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966.

ML200.H17 1983 Hamm, Charles. Music in the New World. New York: W.W. Norton, 1983.

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