These print resources are a good jumping off point for your research. These can give you ideas on topics for papers or projects. Most of these are located in the reference section on the first floor of the library.

General and Subject Encyclopedias

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart : allgemeine Enzyklopadie der Musik

The New Grove Dictionary of American Music

Black Music and Musicians in the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the New Harvard Dictionary of Music

The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950

Biographical Dictionaries

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

Dictionaries of Musical Terms

The A to Z of Foreign Musical Terms: from adagio to zierlich

Dictionary of Musical Morphology

Musical Thesaurus: a Dictionary of Musical Language

New Harvard Dictionary of Music

Terminorium musicae diffinitorium. English

Bibliographies of Music

Collected Editions, Historical Series & Sets & Monuments Of Music: A Bibliography

Cross Index Title Guide To Classical Music

Doctoral Dissertations In Musicology

General Bibliography For Music Research

A Handbook Of Music And Music Literature In Sets And Series and Historical Sets, Collected Editions, and Monuments of Music: a Guide to Their Contents

Music Education: A Guide To Information Sources

Music-In-Print Master Composer Index, 1988

Music Reference And Research Materials: An Annotated Bibliography

Sourcebook For Research In Music

String Music Of Black Composers: A Bibliography