Commonly-Used Tools Available on the Internet

• Imslp.org (a large repository of public-domain scores)
• Mitchell Library Music Databases Online (link: http://library.msstate.edu/DatabasePortal/subject.asp?id=18)
• Mitchell Library Music Research Guide (link: http://guides.library.msstate.edu/content.php?pid=373666&sid=3060562)
• Naxos Music Library (link: https://login.proxy.library.msstate.edu/login?url=http://msu.naxosmusicl...)
• Oxford Music Online, including Grove Music Online (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/)

Guides to Research

• Gottlieb, Jane. Music Library and Research Skills. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2009.
• Herbert, Trevor. Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Music. Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Sampsel, Laurie J. Music Research: A Handbook. 2^nd Edition. Oxford University Press, 2012.
• Wingell, Richard J. and Silvia Herzog. Introduction to Research in Music. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2001.

 Guides to Writing

• Bellman, Jonathan. A Short Guide to Writing About Music. 2^nd Edition. New York: Longman, 2006.
• Herbert, Trevor. Music in Words: A Guide to Researching and Writing About Music. Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Holoman, D. Kern. Writing About Music: A Style Sheet. 2^nd Edition. University of California Press, 2008.
• Irvine, Demar and Mark A Radice. Irvine’s Writing About Music. 3^rd Edition. Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1999.
• Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. 8^th Edition. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Wingell, Richard J. Writing About Music: An Introductory Guide. 4^th Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2008.

Recommended Music History Volumes (Apart from Your Textbooks)

General/Overall

• Taruskin, Richard. The Oxford History of Western Music. 5 Vols. Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Weiss, Piero and Richard Taruskin, eds. Music in the Western World: A History in Documents.  Belmont, CA: Thomson Schirmer, 2008.

Antiquity

• Landels, John G. Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• West, M.L. Ancient Greek Music. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Medieval

• Hoppin, Richard H. Medieval Music. New York: New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978.
• Lord, Suzanne. Music in the Middle Ages: A Reference Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008.
• Yudkin, Jeremy. Music in Medieval Europe. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989.

Renaissance

• Atlas, Allan W. Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe 1400-1600. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1998.
• Brown, Howard Mayer and Louise K. Stein. Music in the Renaissance. 2^nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
• Reese, Gustave. Music in the Renaissance. Revised Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1959.

Baroque

• Schulenberg, David. Music of the Baroque. 3^rd edition. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Classical

• Rice, John A. Music in the Eighteenth Century. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2012.
• Rosen, Charles. The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven. Expanded Edition. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1998.

Romantic

• Plantinga, Leon. Romantic Music: A History of Musical Style in Nineteenth-Century Europe. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1985.
• Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Nineteenth Century (The Oxford History of Western Music Vol. 3). Oxford University Press, 2009.

Twentieth Century and Beyond

• Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Early Twentieth Century (The Oxford History of Western Music  Vol. 4). Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Taruskin, Richard. Music in the Late Twentieth Century (The Oxford History of Western Music Vol. 5). Oxford University Press, 2010.