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Find background information
Find biographical information about composers and background information on musical styles:
- The Oxford Dictionary of MusicThe Oxford Dictionary of Music offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history.
- Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window* Search on the composer's name
* Search for musical styles, such as classical, film music, jazz, musical, popular music
- Contemporary musicians* Search for individual composers
* Biographical information on important figures in today's musical arena, covering artists working in all genres of modern music, including rock, jazz, pop, rap, rhythm and blues, folk, New Age, country, gospel and reggae
- Gale E-Books This link opens in a new window* Search for these musical styles: classicism, film music, jazz, musicals
Find articles to support your musical analysis
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources. Coverage includes history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, humanities and social sciences. Some current issues are available now.
- Arts & Humanities Database This link opens in a new windowFeatures hundreds of titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowIs a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. Includes books and journals.
- Use Google Scholar when you're away from ElonImportant to access Google Scholar off campus, please log into your Elon Email account and you will be able to access the scholarly articles.
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Search Belk Library's online system to find both library materials and articles in our databases. Use the search box below to do a basic search on library materials and databases.