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Classical music reference library


Classical Music Reference Library brings together 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, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, which have never before been available in electronic form. The Baker's titles, edited by the late Nicholas Slonimsky, offer a comprehensive and highly accessible set of musical reference texts that are essential to music study.

Classical Music Reference Library offers comprehensive coverage of all classical genres, spanning music from the Medieval period to the 21st century, including definitions of musical terms and biographical information on the major classical composers and artists. The first release includes the Baker's resources, as well as biographies, chronologies, primary source readings, and critical texts.

Future releases will include links with Classical Music Library and Classical Scores Library for subscribing customers allow users to find reference materials, and then link straight to audio recordings or scores relevant to that material, as well as more detailed indexing.