A chronology of musical events from January 1, 1900, to the end of the century, including significant musical documents highlighting interesting themes, a dictionary of terms, and much more.
A comprehensive resource covering the Performing Arts. Provides current information for over 8,500 dance companies, orchestras, opera companies, choral groups, theater companies, performing arts series, performing arts facilities, and artist management groups.
A 2-volume work which is organized chronologically, beginning with the baroque period and ending with modernism. Each chapter begins with a short biographical essay on the composer along with a timeline.
"Practical elements of hymnody are covered, while the final chapter lists writings about individual hymn writers and other influential persons in the field."
A five-volume work covering six topic areas of folk music: Native American, African American, British Isles, European American, Latino American, and Asian American.
Focuses on the worship music of English-speaking North Americans. Its over 2,500 entries range across major denominations within Western Christianity, the Byzantine/Slav tradition, and Judaism.
"International in scope and spanning all time periods of human history, . . . includes 900 original articles by noted scholars from more than thirty-five countries."
The stated purpose of the 2 volume handbook is "to provide in a single reference source answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting..."
The translations in these two volumes are arranged alphabetically by composer, with German and French composers in volume 1 and Italian composers in volume 2.
A 10-volume work which covers the time periods from ancient all the way through modern. Each volume features a different time period in music history, such as Early Middle Ages, Ars Nova and the Renaissance, The Age of Beethoven, and Romanticism.
"Provides introductory analysis and reference material on thirty key issues facing the world today, including those in the fields of economics, the environment, human development, law, politics, and security."
"An 11-volume work ... planned in accordance with the principles of UNESCO's MAB (Man and the Biosphere) Programme." Concerned with effects of humans on nature.
Focusing mainly on United States, Canada and the UK, this work builds on the first edition that has been widely recognized and cited as the foremost reference work on the study of television.
Of the four hundred thinkers discussed in this work, nearly a quarter are philosophers. Each entry includes the person's works and a select bibliography of works about the author.
Contains some 3,800 references, most briefly annotated, to English-language print resources published mainly since the 1970s, including books and book sections, journal articles, dissertations, and entries in dictionaries and encyclopedias.
World Bank's annual compilation of data about development includes more than 800 indicators in 83 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.
A bibliography is a collection of works about a person or subject. These are essential research tools and should always be sought because someone has already done the legwork of gathering together in one place important resources on a person or subject. It begins in 1450 and ends in 1974 and collects in all languages.
The SEP is a major scholarly resource for the study of philosophy. It is not as complete as the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but it is available online and the information is reliable.
Provides extensive information on all aspects of ornithology, including anatomy, behavior, distribution, ecology, and the relationship of humans with birds. Illustrated.
This fifteen volume work covers all invertebrate groups, from protozoa to the invertebrate members of the phyla Chordata, with an emphasis on functional morphology.
