The reference books listed here are a representative sample of material available on the open shelves of the Rare Books & Music Reading Room.
| Adler, Guido | Handbuch der Musikgeschichte (Fotomechanischer Nachdruck der zweiten Auflage, Berlin 1930, München, 1975). 3 vols. |
| Arnold, Denis (ed.) | The new Oxford companion to music (Oxford, 1983). 2 vols. |
| Burney, Charles | A general history of music (London, 1776-89). 4 vols. |
| Caldwell, John | The Oxford history of English music (Oxford, 1991, 1999). 2 vols. |
| Dahlhaus, Carl | Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft (Wiesbaden, 1980-95). 13 vols. |
| Eisler, Paul E | World chronology of music history (New York, 1972-). |
| Finscher, Ludwig | Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik ... Zweite, neubearbeitete Ausgabe ... herausgegeben von Ludwig Finscher (Kassel, 1994- ). |
| Grout, Donald J | A history of Western music (6th ed., New York, 2001). |
| Hadow, Sir William H | The Oxford history of music (2nd ed., London, 1929-38). 8 vols. |
| Honegger, Marc (ed.) | Dictionnaire de la musique ( Nouv. éd., Paris, 1986). 2 vols. |
| Poulton, Alan J. | A dictionary-catalog of modern British composers (Westport, Conn., 2000). |
| Randel, Don Michael | The New Harvard dictionary of music. Edited by Don Michael Randel (Cambridge, Mass., 1986). |
| Sartori, Claudio (ed.) | Enciclopedia della Musica (Milan, 1963-4). 4 vols. |
| Sartori, Claudio (ed.) | Dizionario Ricordi della musica e dei musicisti (Milan, 1959). |
| Sadie, Stanley (ed.) | The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd ed. (London, 2001). 29 vols. (Earlier editions also held.) |
| Samson, Jim (ed.) | The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music (Cambridge, 2001). |
| Slonimsky, Nicolas | Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 10th ed, ed. Laura Kuhn (New York, 2001). |
| Slonimsky, Nicolas | Baker's biographical dictionary of twentieth-century classical musicians, ed. Laura Kuhn (New York, 1997). |
| Vannes, René | Dictionnaire des musiciens compositeurs (Brussels, 1947). |
| Wyn Jones, David (ed.) | Music in eighteenth-century Britain (Aldershot, 2000). |
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