Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Grove Music Online - Part of Oxford Music Online; also provides access to
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music,
The Oxford Companion to Music, and
The Oxford Dictionary of Music.
Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der MusikVirginia Tech Multimedia Music DictionaryBibliographies and Indexes of Settings
Bradley, Carol June.
Index to Poetry in Music: A Guide to the Poetry Set as Solo Songs by 125 Major Song Composers. New York: Routledge, 2003.
Carman, Judith E. et al.
Art Song in the United States, 1759-1999: An Annotated Bibliography. 3rd ed. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow, 2001.
Clifton, Keith E.
Recent American Art Song: A Guide. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
An index of music composed or published after 1980
Gooch, Bryan N. S. and David S. Thatcher.
Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.
Hovland, Michael, comp.
Musical Settings of American Poetry: A Bibliography. New York: Greenwood, 1986.
An index of published settings of poems by 99 American authors
Seaton, Douglass.
The Art Song: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Garland, 1987.
