History & Theory of Music - DD 303 - Music for Designers: Foundations of Sound and Music I - Research Guides at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

These are just a few selected titles, more can be found by searching the library's online catalog.

A Guide to Orchestral Music: the Handbook for Non-musician
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music /
Oxford History of Western Music
ISBN: 9780195386301

5 volumes
The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera
ISBN: 0521646839
The Harvard Dictionary of Music /
New Oxford Companion to Music (2vv.)
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (4vv.)
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (e-book)

Databases at NJIT & Rutgers Libraries

Some of these databases can only be accessed in Dana Library at Rutgers University.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
A leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources from 1970 to the present time.
JSTOR
The JSTOR includes hundreds of core titles across disciplines including humanities, social sciences, business, science and mathematics, botany, ecology, health sciences, and more.
OmniFile Full Text Mega (EBSCO)
A full-text database of essential publications for research across many disciplines, including art, education, humanities, and technology. It also provides indexing and abstracts for thousands of publications.
Grove Art Online
Access is available for 3 simultaneous users. The Grove Dictionary of Art Online contains articles on every aspect of the visual arts - painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography - from prehistory to the present day. Entries include bibliographic information with related resources.

Video recordings

The following are just a few selected titles; you can find more than sixty video recordings of operas by searching the Library online catalog. Use subject word "operas" and limit your search to videos.