Guides: Music Composition: Music Composition

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This guide provides information about the resources available in the duPont-Ball Library and on the web in support of the Music Composition students at Stetson. Search tips for finding books, ebooks, journal articles and other materials are covered.

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Oxford Music Online (includes Grove Music Online) This link opens in a new window
The gateway to all Oxford's music resources, including Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature This link opens in a new window
Bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage.
Music Online Reference Databases This link opens in a new window
Cross searchable database of music reference sources that allows the user to search the following titles simultaneously: African American Music Reference, Classical Music Reference Library, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online, and Classical Scores Library. The subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Music Online: Classical Music Library This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive streaming audio collection of classical music. It currently provides streaming access to more than 766,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added. The subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users.
Naxos Music Listening Library This link opens in a new window
The world's largest online classical music library. Offers the catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels with more labels joining every month. Includes leading independent classical labels such as BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, and of course Naxos. World music content is provided by ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others.

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Welcome and Descriptions

Best Bet Resources

The gateway to all Oxford's music resources, including Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music.

Bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage.

Comprehensive streaming audio collection of classical music. It currently provides streaming access to more than 766,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added. The subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users.

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Music Composition

Welcome and Descriptions

Best Bet Resources

The gateway to all Oxford's music resources, including Grove Music Online, Oxford Dictionary of Music, and Oxford Companion to Music.

Bibliography of music literature providing broad international coverage.

Comprehensive streaming audio collection of classical music. It currently provides streaming access to more than 766,000 tracks, including almost 50,000 recordings from EMI, and is growing monthly as new recordings are added. The subscription is limited to 3 simultaneous users.