Music Encyclopedias
- Oxford Music Online(Contains Grove Music Online)
Great For: authoritative entries across a wide spectrum of genres, musical topics, and people; works lists; bibliographies
Format: Online
TIP: Oxford Music Online includes some articles on musical theater, but also consult The Grove Dictionary of American Music for in-depth articles, and see other sources for recently-produced shows - Grove Dictionary of American Music (2nd ed.)Great For: authoritative articles on American art and popular music, with bibliographies and composers' works lists. Some, but not all, of the articles are available in Oxford Music Online
Format: Print
Call Number: Loeb Music Aldrich Room: ML101.U6 N48 2013 - RILM Music EncyclopediasGreat For: current and historical encyclopedias, including books about Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, musical film performers, and popular music
Format: online; multilingual
Bibliographies
Bibliographies save you time by giving you an annotated list of citations to check. Once you've found a book or article that interests you, search for it in HOLLIS to find our copy.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online: MusicalAn annotated bibliography with sections for historical, biographical, and critical studies of musical theatre.
Broadway Production Databases
- Internet Broadway Database (IBDB)A database of shows produced on Broadway, including information about production runs, cast and crew, venues, awards and nominations, attendance and grosses.
- Playbill Vault (1930-present)A database of information on Broadway shows, actors, and production crews (1930-present): search by title, person, theatre, or season.
- Show Music on Record (1890s-2010)A discography of songs performed by members of original, revival, and studio casts of American stage, screen, and television shows, as well as foreign shows and musical films produced or shown in the United States. Covers recordings from the 1890s-December, 2010.
Featured Books from Hollis
A few of the print reference books on musical theater found in the library. Search in HOLLIS to find more; try "musicals" or "musical theater" plus keywords like "dictionaries," "encyclopedias," "discographies," etc.
- A Chronology of American Musical Theater byCall Number: Loeb Music: Aldrich Room ML1711.8 .N3 N67 2002
- Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television byCall Number: Loeb Music: Aldrich Room ML102.M88 H593 2008Full Text Available Online
- Broadway plays and musicals : descriptions and essential facts of more than 14,000 shows through 2007 byCall Number: Loeb Music: Aldrich Room PN2277.N5 H573 2009
- Off Broadway musicals, 1910-2007 : casts, credits, songs, critical reception and performance data of more than 1,800 shows byCall Number: Loeb Music: Aldrich Room ML1711.8.N3 D54 2010
- A century of musicals in black and white : an encyclopedia of musical stage works by, about, or involving African Americans byCall Number: Loeb Music: Aldrich Room ML102.M88 P37 1993