LibGuides: 6th grade music -- research project: Home

Useful databases

Grove Music Online
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
World Book Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
Full text of the print set plus a basic Spanish-language encyclopedia, an atlas, etc. Provides overview and background on many topics.
Britannica Academic This link opens in a new window
Britannica Academic is a combination of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, thesaurus, magazines, periodicals, and many other research tools providing a variety of reliable sources students need for research. Provides overview and background as well as bibliographies of trusted sources on many topics.
Middle search plus This link opens in a new window
Full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image Collection of photos, maps and flags
Biography In Context This link opens in a new window
Search for biographies based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, gender, or other keywords.

Baroque composers
Reviews of various composers with recommendations as to their "essential" compostitions.
Music of the Baroque
Music of the Baroque’s professional chorus and orchestra is one of the leading ensembles in the country devoted to the performance of eighteenth-century works.
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Links to audio of performances of Baroque music by several of the composers as well as information about them and about the period itself.

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