LibGuides@Southampton: Music: Books, theses & dissertations

Reference

American National Biography This link opens in a new window
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The American National Biography offers scholarly biographies of more than 19,000 renowned American men & women, from all eras and walks of life, reflecting the rich diversity of American life from pre-colonial times to the present day.

Cambridge Companions to Music
Cambridge Companions to Music provide clear and accessible information on composers, instruments or musical topics. Each volume provides specially-commissioned essays by leading authorities offering comprehensive coverage of the topic.

Grove Music Online This link opens in a new window
Grove Music Online is the authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history, theory and cultures of music around the globe. Based on a work first published in 1879 and updated frequently, Grove has been in continuous publication for over a century and now publishes hundreds of new articles and article revisions each year
Oxford Bibliographies: Music This link opens in a new window
Oxford Bibliographies are authoritative research guides which combine the features of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopedia. A good introduction to researching a particular topic.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography This link opens in a new window
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes over 60,000 biographies, 72 million words, and 11,000 portraits of significant, influential or notorious figures who shaped British history.
Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new window
Online music encyclopaedia, including the Grove Dictionary of Music, which provides extensive coverage of all aspects of music.
Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
The resource offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions series...more info

Oxford Handbooks

Oxford Handbooks This link opens in a new window
The Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. Each Handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship, creating an original conception of the field and setting the agenda for new research.

Music Theses & Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology This link opens in a new window
An international database of bibliographic records for completed dissertations and new dissertation topics in the fields of music.

Theses and Dissertations

Proquest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window
The world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses.
Click 'login' for on campus access. For access off campus, click 'login', enter 'University of Southampton' in the institutional field followed by your institutional username and password.
Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) This link opens in a new window
Find open access graduate theses and dissertations published from around the world. Metadata comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 5,330,227 theses and dissertations.

University of Southampton PhD/ MPhil theses

many doctoral level theses are now also available online from ePrints Soton
there are more details about finding theses available

University of Southampton Undergraduate / Masters dissertations

a limited number of undergraduate dissertations are held on Blackboard under the Research Project module code
for Masters and further examples of undergraduate dissertations students should ask enquire at the Faculty Office or discuss with their supervisor