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Music Resource Guide

The Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Music is designed to give the student a general experience in music within a liberal arts degree

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Naxos Music Library
The Naxos Music Library is an on-line library from the catalog of Naxos, a classical music label, and selected additional labels. Naxos Music Library also includes world music, jazz, and national anthems. In addition, Naxos offers a number of text resources including overviews of music history, program notes for recordings, and the complete libretti of operas available.

Encyclopedia Entries for Music
From Credo Reference
Music: Research Starters Topics
There are numerous Research Starter articles related to music. Some research starters are on genres and styles, music and censorship, and music history.

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Stanley Sadie (Editor); John Tyrrell (Editor)
Call Number: Reference 780.3 N42s 2001 v1-29
ISBN: 1561592390
Publication Date: 2003-02-11
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin (Editor)
Call Number: Reference 781.6403 En19L 1998 v.1-8
ISBN: 1561592374
Musical Terms, Symbols and Theory: An Illustrated Dictionary by Michael C. Thomsett
Call Number: Credo Reference
Publication Date: 2012

Columbia College Bachelor of Arts in Music program

Music Resources

The links below have books, e-books, articles, and streaming videos on music related subjects.