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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music by 
The Harvard Dictionary of Music by 
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by 
Baker's Dictionary of Music by 
Hip Hop Around the World: an Encyclopedia [2 Volumes] by 
An Encyclopedia of South Carolina Jazz and Blues Musicians by 
Latin American Classical Composers by 
African-American Musicians That Changed Music Forever by 
A digital reference library that provides information from more than 600 high-quality reference books from the world's leading publishers. Credo Reference includes reference resources such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, plus numerous subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.
Contains 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 3,171 essays and images from 80 sources.
Integrates more than 30,000 pages of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music, in a unified online database. Included are the authoritative reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, and Women Composers which are available for the first time in electronic form. This release includes 26,774 essays and images from 22 sources.
Contains 209,140 pages of the most important classical scores and manuscripts, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 15,000 scores. This release includes 11,987 scores.
A comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world. This release includes 1,210 essays and images from 10 sources and hundreds of streaming audio examples to accompany the text.
