Scholars and experts in music regularly share information through listservs like these:
780's Music
780.7 Music education
780.9 World music
781 General principles & musical forms
782 Vocal music
783 Music for single voices; the voice
784 Instruments & instrumental ensembles
785 Ensembles with one instrument per part
786 Keyboard & other instruments
787 Stringed instruments
788 Wind instruments
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Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
Includes: The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
Arts and Humanities Through the Eras
Use the Castleton Library Catalog to browse or search for books and more in the holdings of the VSC libraries.
These subject headings, or their subheadings, might be helpful for music history topics:
Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain...these are the people who helped shape the history of music. Their stories and others are told in Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century. This five volume set offers biographical and critical essays on over 600 musicians in just about every genre imaginable, from Accordion Players to Musical Theater Composers to World Music, and everything in between.
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music A guide to the thousands of characters, who people the history of music, this volume brings together all the biographical information about composers, performers, music theorists and instrument makers from the days of praise chants to the bop and pop of today. A companion to The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, this biographical dictionary emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives attention to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages - with care devoted to coverage of the 20th century.
