A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. This informative textbook provides concrete examples of different types of writing, offering a thorough introduction to music literature. It clearly describes various information-searching techniques and library-based organizational systems and introduces the array of music resources available. Each chapter concludes with learning exercises to aid the students' concept application and skill development. Appendixes provide short cuts to specific topics in library organizational systems, including Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification. The concluding bibliography provides a quick overview of music literature and resources, emphasizing electronic and print publications since 2000, but including standard references that all music researchers should know.

"This reference classic has approximately doubled in size since its last publication 20 years ago, and the expansion involves more than the thorough revision and addition of articles about music of the past. More articles about 20th-century composers and composer-performers have been added, as well as topical articles about the gender-related, multicultural, and interdisciplinary ways that music is now being studied. Add to these changes that New Grove is also available online, making it a source that would have made its many-faceted creator Sir George Grove proud"--Outstanding reference sources, American Libraries, May 2002.

For general music lovers, musicians, gramophiles, and students, this is the new edition of a catalog that compiles all available information on the music of Shostakovich. The entries, arranged chronologically, cover the compositions work by work and include information such as title, form, instrumentation, year or period of composition, dedication, premiere, arrangements, music (former opus numbers, previous errors in numbering, publication), duration, ballets and films, and recordings. Cross-references point out material re- used in other compositions. In addition to other changes, revisions, and expansions, this edition substitutes previously unknown or approximate performance dates of many analogue recordings that were transferred to CD. Hulme, who has published numerous articles and recording notes on Shostakovich, states that this will be his final rewriting of the whole catalog. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR