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LIBRARY
Romantic Composers Research |
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| NON-FICTION | |
| 780.9 CLA | Classical music |
| 921 CHO | The life and times of Chopin |
| REFERENCE | |
| REF 780.3 NEW | The new Grove dictionary of music and muscians |
| REF 780.3 SLO | Baker's dictionary of music |
| REF 920 AME | American National Biography |
| REF 920 WEB | Webster's biographical dictionary |
| REF 920.02 MCG | McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography |
| SEARCH TERMS |
| "individual name" AND "time period" |
| "individual name" AND biography |
| DATABASES |
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| www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com |
| The American National Biography |
| A useful and dynamic source of information - updates quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. Search Tip: For a precise match, enter a name in the format Last Name, First Name. |
| http://www.anb.org/articles/index.html |
| eLibrary |
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| Encyclopedia Britannica |
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| www.school.eb.com |
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| http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/whea91493?db=GVRL-0 |
| Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |
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| www.oxforddnb.com |
| WEBSITES |
| About.com |
| Links to biogrpahies of most of the composers of the Romantic era. |
| http://musiced.about.com/od/romanticperiod/Famous_Romantic_Musicians.htm |
| Biography |
| Indepth information on the stars, politicians, sports figures and others who have been featured on the Biography tv series |
| www.biography.com |
| The History Channel |
| The cable TV station that covers historical events is depth. |
| www.history.com |
| Internet Public Library |
| One of the Internet Oublic Library's Special Collections details the Romantic Era and then discusses individual composers. |
| http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/rom/ |
| SEARCH ENGINES |
| Ask.com |
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| www.ask.com |
| CITATION AIDS |
| http://www.easybib.com |
| The free automatic bibliography composer. Create MLA-style bibliographies, then save them to Word. |
