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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 are available for the first time in electronic form. This release includes 26,774 essays and images from 23 sources, over 26742 pages. More »

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A Short History of Opera by Donald Jay Grout & Hermine Weigel Williams Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, vol. 1 by Laura Kuhn Baker’s Dictionary of Music by Nicholas Slonimsky & Richard Kassel Music since 1900, 6th Edition by Nicholas Slonimsky