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More Online Music Reference Resources

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Links to a variety of online music dictionaries
• Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia
  Contains information about performing arts resources at the Library of Congress. Digitized items from collections, topical web presentations, articles and biographical essays, etc.
• Glossary of German Publishing Terminology
• Instrument Encyclopedia
• Dolmetsch Music Dictionary
• MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary

Chronologies

• Necrology
• Timelines & Chronologies

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Theme and Tune Dictionaries

• Musipedia (formerly melodyhound) Find a tune
• Themefinder
• The Song Tapper

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Catalogs and databases

• The European Library
• Library of Congress Online Catalog
• SONIC: Sound Online Inventory and Catalog for searching a portion of the Library of Congress Audio Collection
• British Library Catalogue
• British Library Manuscripts Catalogue
• British Thesis Service
• Osterreicsche Nationalbibliothek
• RISM A/II: International Inventory of Musical Sources after 1600
• RISM B/I (16th-17th Cent. imprints) Index to composers
• Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali Italian national catalog of music manuscripts to 1900.
• The European Library portal to national libraries in Europe
• Latrobe Medieval Music Database
• Music Education Resource Base
• Musica: The Music and Science Information Computer Archive
• The Jazz Discography. Musician List
• Arnold Schonberg Center
• Paul Sacher Foundation

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Music Library Classifications

• L.C. Classification
• Dewey Music Classification

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University of Washington Music

• University of Washington Alma Mater
• Bow Down to Washington

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Instrument Dating

• Bluebook of Pianos
• Instrument Serial Number Lists
• Musical Instrument Patent Numbers & Dates
• Music Trader Proprietary Serial Number Lists

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Miscellaneous

• John Wagstaff's "Quirky music references" site
• Folio, Manuscript: Paleography, Codicology
• labyrinth: Manuscripts, Paleography, Codicology
• Note names, MIDI numbers and frequencies
• All Songs Considered NPR

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