RILM Music Encyclopedias: The Definitive Global Repository of Music Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

This database, made available through EbscoHost, is a collection of 41 titles published from 1775 to the present, comprising nearly 80,000 pages. Multiple countries and languages are represented, including English, German, Greek, Italian, Dutch and French. Some of the major subject areas covered are recorded sound, women composers, popular music, blues, gospel, instruments and opera. The link http://rilm.org/encyclopedias/ gives a list of the titles contained in the database and a description of their contents.

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