CHAPTER 11 - Music Literature

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the guides to printed materials and literary information useful for the historian of music. The basic general introduction to research materials is V. Duckies, Music Reference and Research Materials: an annotated bibliography (2nd edn., New York, Free Pr., 1967). Entries in this work are usefully annotated. The lists include, among other items, dictionaries and encyclopedias, histories, guides to musicology, bibliographies of music and its literature, catalogues of libraries and collections of musical instruments, and yearbooks. J.H. Davies, Musicalia: sources of information in music (Oxford, Pergamon Pr., 1966), is a wide-ranging narrative guide. This work includes valuable appendixes listing “the principal music collections, formerly in private hands, and now to be found in institutions and libraries of Great Britain,” names and addresses of music publishers and their British and American agents, music publishers' organizations and performing rights, and collecting societies. G. Haydon, Introduction to Musicology: a survey of the fields, systematic and historical, of musical knowledge and research (New York, Prentice-Hall, 1941; reprinted Chapel Hill, Univ. of North Carolina Pr., 1959), includes bibliographies for each chapter and a general bibliography at the end of the work.