Book searching
The best place to start your search for books is through InfoKat, WorldCat, or FirstSearch. Below you will find a small selection of items that exist in the Fine Arts Library in our general collection and reference section, as well as links to other open access collections.
General Books
Music of a Thousand Years by Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780520972032Publication Date: 2019-10-22
An Anthology of Indo-Persian Writings on Hindustani Music Theory from the Mughal Period by Call Number: Online ResourcePublication Date: 2022
Here for the Hearing : Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater by Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780472133314Publication Date: 2023-05-22
A Case for Charpentier by Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 9780253051615Publication Date: 2021-01-19
Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony by Call Number: ML444 .W25 2020ISBN: 9781580465755Publication Date: 2020-06-20
The Arithmetic of Listening by Call Number: ML3809 .G3 2019ISBN: 9780252042584Publication Date: 2019-09-16
Musical Bodies, Musical Minds by Call Number: Online ResourceISBN: 0262045222Publication Date: 2022-08-30
Reference Books
The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory by Call Number: ML3800 .C165 2002Publication Date: 2002
Beyond Groves and Taruskin
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians REF ML105.B16 2001
Dictionnaire de la musique REF ML100 .D65
Enciclopedia della musica REF ML100 .E45
Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire REF ML100 .E5
Diccionario de la música española e hispanoamericana REF ML101.S7 D53 1999
The Harvard Dictionary of Music REF ML100.A64 2003
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart REF ML100 .M92 1994
Open-Access Books
Open-access = FREE to download and or read online.
LC's digitized collection Books about Music before 1800 offers access to nearly tw0-thousand books about music printed before 1800. Early highlights include Johannes Tinctoris's Terminorum musicae diffinitorium (c1474), Franchinus Gaffurius's Theoricum opus musiche discipline (1480), and Henricus Glareanus's Dodekachordon (1547).
OAPEN has hundreds of freely accessible academic books, mainly in the areas of humanities and social sciences. Click here to search music titles.
The Directory of Open Access Books' primary aim is to increase discoverability of Open Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide metadata of their Open Access books to DOAB.
JSTOR's open-access titles include just over 40 books in music. Using the search box will list open-access journal articles and book chapters. If you want a list of book titles only, click on the "Download the title list" button and sort by discipline (music).
The Digital Public Library of America's Open Bookshelf contains almost 3,000 open-access titles.
Music titles in the DPLA Open Bookshelf.