Library Guides: Music Research: Reference

Reference Databases

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Includes images, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and handbooks.
Credo: Music Books
Credo: Music Topic Pages
Credo: Opera Topic Pages
Ebook reference titles emphasizing all key disciplines; includes images, encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and handbooks.
How to run a Basic search on Credo
How to use the Mind Map on Credo
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Various subject encyclopedias covering multiple disciplines.
GVRL: Music
GVRL: Music Topic Finder
GVRL: Music Subjects
Various subject encyclopedias covering multiple disciplines.
Video tutorial: "Searching for information in Gale eBooks"
Points of View Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides essays that present multiple sides of current issues, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and a Guide to Critical Analysis.
Example: music censorship
Provides essays that present multiple sides of current issues, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and a Guide to Critical Analysis.

In the Library

Catalog This link opens in a new window
ORU's online listing of books, ebooks, audiobooks, reference materials, faculty reserves, special collections, subscription journal titles, etc. to which ORU users have access. Entries contain bibliographic information about each entry on the Sierra system.
Search tips(Also, other tabs offer information regarding how to: navigate the catalog, renew books, perform other searches)

To find reference books, search the Library catalog and limit your results to "Reference Collection." Use keywords or try a subject search for music.

Browse the shelves in the music call number sections as shown in the chart below .

See opens new window Library of Congress Classification Outline for a detailed call number and subject list. Drill down through the M--Music and Books on Music subject.

Books are shelved in Library of Congress (LC) call number order so similar subjects will be shelved next to each other. When you find a book of interest look to the left and right on the shelf for related books.

Selected Reference Books

Catalog This link opens in a new window
ORU's online listing of books, ebooks, audiobooks, reference materials, faculty reserves, special collections, subscription journal titles, etc. to which ORU users have access. Entries contain bibliographic information about each entry on the Sierra system.
Search tips(Also, other tabs offer information regarding how to: navigate the catalog, renew books, perform other searches)

Search the book titles below in the library catalog. Ebook records in the catalog will have links to the full text.

American Musical Theatre - ML1711.B67 2010
Baker's Dictionary of Opera - ML102.O6 B26 2000
The Complete Library of Christian Worship - BV10.2 .C65 1993
A Dictionary of Hymnology - BV305.J8
Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music - Ebook
Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music - ML102.G6 E63 2005
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music - Ebook
Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music - ML105.E52 2010
Encyclopedia of the Piano - ML102.P5 E53 1996
The Hymn Tune Index - ML128.H8 T46 1998
Index to Poetry in Music - oML128.S3 B68 2003
The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians - ML100.G885
Oxford Composer Companions: J.S. Bach - ML410.B1 J15