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19CM 19th Century Music

20C 20th Century

20CF 20th CenturyFox

AAFS Archive of American Folksong (Library of Congress)

AandMHor. AandM Horizon

ABC-Para. ABC-Paramount

ACAB American Composers Alliance Bulletin

AcM Acta musicologica

AdlerHM G. Adler, ed.: Handbuch der Musikgeschichte (Frankfurt, 1924, 2/1930/R)

AfM African Music

AH Analecta hymnica medii aevi

AH Artists House

Ala. Aladdin

AllacciD L. Allacci: Drammaturgia

AllenH W. C. Allen: Hendersonia: the Music of Fletcher Henderson and his Musicians: a Bio-discography (Highland Park, NJ, 1973)

AM Antiphonale monasticum pro diurnis horis (Tournai, 1934)

AM American Music

AmbrosGM A.W. Ambros: Geschichte der Musik (Leipzig, 1862-82/R)

AMe Algemene muziekencyclopedie

Amer. America

AMeS Algemene muziekencyclopedie suppl.

AMf Archiv für Musikforschung

AMI L'arte musicale in Italia

AMMM Archivium musices metropolitanum mediolanense

AMP Antiquitates musicae in Polonia

AMw Archiv für Musikwissenschaft

AMZ Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (1798-1848, 1863-5, 1866-82)

AMz Allgemeine (deutsche) Musik-Zeitung/Musikzeitung (1874-1943)

AN Arista Novus

ANB American National Biography Online (http://www.anb.org)

Anderson2 E.R. Anderson: Contemporary American Composers: a Biographical Dictionary

AnM Anuario musical

AnMc Analecta musicologica

AnnM Annales musicologiques

AnthonyFB J.R. Anthony: French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau (London, 1973, 3/1997)

AntMI Antiquae musicae italicae

Ant. Antilles

AÖAW Anzeiger der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse (1948-)

ApelG W. Apel: Geschichte der Orgel- und Klaviermusik bis 1700 (Kassel, 1967; Eng. trans., rev., 1972) AR Antiphonale sacrosanctae romanae ecclesiae pro diurnis horis (Paris, Tournai and Rome, 1949)

Ari. Arista

ARJS Annual Review of Jazz Studies

ARSCJ Association for Recorded Sound Collections Journal

AS W.H. Frere, ed.: Antiphonale sarisburiense (London, 1901-25/R)

AshbeeR A. Ashbee: Records of English Court Music (Snodland/Aldershot, 1986-95)

AsM Asian Music

Asy. Asylum

Atl. Atlantic

AudaM A. Auda: La musique et les musiciens de l'ancien pays de Liège

AusDB Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne, 1966-96)

Aut. Autograph

Bak. Bakton

Baker5[–9] Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1958–2001

Baker20thC. Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of 20th-Century Musicians

BalliettA (1986) W. Balliett: American Musicians: Fifty-six Portraits in Jazz (New York, and Oxford, England, 1986) BalliettA (1996) W. Balliett: American Musicians II: Seventy-two Portraits in Jazz (New York, and Oxford, England, 1996)

BAMS Bulletin of the American Musicological Society

Ban. Banner

Bay. Baystate

BB Black and Blue

Bb Bluebird

BDA A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (Carbondale, IL, 1973-93) BDECM A. Ashbee and D. Lasocki, eds.: A Biographical Dictionary of English Court Musicians, 1485-1714 (Aldershot, 1998)

BDRSC A. Ho and D. Feofanov, eds.: Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers

BeckEP J.H. Beck: Encyclopedia of Percussion

BeJb Beethoven-Jahrbuch

BenoitMC M. Benoit: Musiques de cour: chapelle, chambre, écurie, 1661-1733 (Paris, 1971)

Beth. Bethlehem

BenzingB J. Benzing: Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (Wiesbaden, 1963, 2/1982) BerliozM H. Berlioz: Mémoires (Paris, 1870; ed. and trans. D. Cairns, 1969, 2/1970); ed. P. Citron (Paris, 1969, 2/1991) BertolottiM A. Bertolotti: Musici alla corte dei Gonzaga in Mantova dal secolo XV al XVIII (Milan, 1890/R)

BH Bee Hive

BHcF Bulletin du Hot Club de France

BicknellH S. Bicknell: The History of the English Organ (Cambridge, 1996)

BJb Bach-Jahrbuch

BL Black Lion

BladesPI J. Blades: Percussion Instruments and their History (London, 1970, 2/1974)

BlumeEK F. Blume: Die evangelische Kirchenmusik (Potsdam, 1931-4/R, enlarged 2/1965 as Geschichte der evangelischen Kirchenmusik; Eng. trans., enlarged, 1974, as Protestant Church Music: a History)

BMB Bibliotheca musica bononiensis (Bologna, 1967-)

BMw Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft

BN Blue Note

BNB Biographie nationale [belge] (Brussels, 1866-1986)

BoalchM D.H. Boalch: Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440 to 1840

BoetticherOL W. Boetticher: Orlando di Lasso und seine Zeit (Kassel, 1958)

BooneT O. Boone: Les tambours du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (Tervuren, 1951)

BooneX O. Boone: Les xylophones du Congo belge (Tervuren, 1936)

BouwsteenenJVNM Bouwsteenen: jaarboek der Vereeniging voor Nederlandsche muz. . . .

BoydenH D.D. Boyden: A History of Violin Playing from its Origins to 1761 (London, 1965)

BPM Black Perspective in Music

BrenetC M. Brenet: Les concerts en France sous l'ancien régime (Paris, 1900/R)

BrenetM M. Brenet: Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais (Paris, 1910/R)

BrookB B.S. Brook, ed.: The Breitkopf Thematic Catalogue, 1762-1787 (New York, 1966)

BrookSF B.S. Brook: La symphonie française dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1962) BrownI H.M. Brown: Instrumental Music Printed Before 1600: a Bibliography (Cambridge, MA, 1965)

Brown-Stratton BMB J.D. Brown and S.S. Stratton: British Musical Biography

Bruns. Brunswick

BS Black Saint

BSIM Bulletin français de la S.I.M. [also Mercure musical and other titles]

BStar Blue Star

BUCEM E.B. Schnapper, ed.: British Union-Catalogue of Early Music (London, 1957)

BurneyFI C. Burney: The Present State of Music in France and Italy (London, 1771, 2/1773) BurneyGN C. Burney: The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Provinces (London, 1773, 2/1775) BurneyH C. Burney: A General History of Music from the Earliest Ages to the Present Period (London, 1776-89); ed. F. Mercer (London, 1935/R) [p. nos. refer to this edn]

BWQ Brass and Woodwind Quarterly

Cad. Cadence

CaffiS F. Caffi: Storia della musica sacra nella già cappella ducale di San Marco in Venezia dal 1318 al 1797 (Venice, 1854-5/R); ed. E. Surian (Florence, 1987)

CaM Catalogus musicus (Kassel, 1963-)

CampbellGC M. Campbell: The Great Cellists

CampbellGV M. Campbell: The Great Violinists

Can. Canyon

Cand. Candid

CAO Corpus antiphonalium officii (Rome, 1963-79)

Cap. Capitol

Car. Caroline

CarrJ I. Carr, D. Fairweather, and B. Priestley: Jazz: the Rough Guide (London, 1995, rev. and enlarged 2/2000)

Cas. Casablanca

Cat. Catalyst

CBY Current Biography Yearbook (1955-)

CC B. Morton and P. Collins, eds.: Contemporary Composers

CeBeDeM directory CeBeDeM et ses compositeurs affiliés, ed. D. von Volborth-Danys (Brussels, 1977-80)

CEKM Corpus of Early Keyboard Music

CEMF Corpus of Early Music (in Facsimile) (Brussels, 1970-72)

Cen. Century

ChartersJ S. B. Charters: Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1957: an Index to the Negro Musicians of New Orleans (Belleville, NJ, 1958, rev. 2/1963/R1983 as Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1963: an Index to the Negro Musicians of New Orleans)

Chi. Chiaroscurro

ChiltonB J. Chilton: Who's Who of British Jazz (London and New York, 1997) ChiltonW J. Chilton: Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street (London, 1970, rev. and enlarged 4/1985)

CHM Collectanea historiae musicae (1953-66)

Choron-FayolleD A.-E. Choron and F.J.M. Fayolle: Dictionnaire historique des musiciens

ČHS Český hudební slovník osob a institucí

CI Crescendo International

Cir. Circle

CJ Classical Jazz

CK Contemporary Keyboard

ClinkscaleMP M.N. Clinkscale: Makers of the Piano

CM Le choeur des muses

CMc Current Musicology

CMI I classici musicali italiani (Milan, 1941-56)

CMM Corpus mensurabilis musicae

ČMm Časopis Moravského musea [muzea, 1977-]

CMR Contemporary Music Review

CMz Cercetări de muzicologie

Cob. Cobblestone

CohenE A.I. Cohen: International Encyclopedia of Women Composers

CohenWE Y.W. Cohen: Werden und Entwicklung der Musik in Israel (Kassel, 1976)

COJ Cambridge Opera Journal

Col. Columbia

Com. Commodore

Conc. Concord

ConnorBG D. R. Connor: BG off the Record: a Bio-discography of Benny Goodman (Fairless Hills, PA, 1958, rev. and enlarged [4]/1988 as Benny Goodman: Listen to his Legacy, addns and corrections, 1996, as Benny Goodman: Wrappin' it up)

Cont. Contemporary

Contl Continental

CooverMA J.B. Coover: Music at Auction: Puttick and Simpson (Warren, MI, 1988)

Cot. Cotillion

CoussemakerS C.-E.-H. de Coussemaker: Scriptorum de musica medii aevi nova series (Paris, 1864-76/R, 2/1908, ed. U. Moser)

CP Charlie Parker

CroceN B. Croce: I teatri di Napoli (Naples, 1891/R, 5/1966)

ČSHS Československy hudební slovník

CSM Corpus scriptorum de musica (Rome, later Stuttgart, 1950-)

CSPD Calendar of State Papers (Domestic) (London, 1856-1972)

Cw Das Chorwerk

CW Creative World

DAB Dictionary of American Biography (New York, 1928-37, suppls., 1944-)

DAM Dansk aarbog for musikforskning

Day-Murrie ESB C.L. Day and E.B. Murrie: English Song-Books (London, 1940)

DB Down Beat

DBF Dictionnaire de biographie française (Paris, 1933-)

DBI Dizionario biografico degli italiani (Rome, 1960-)

DBL Dansk biografisk leksikon (Copenhagen, 1887-1905)

DBL2 Dansk biografisk leksikon (Copenhagen, 2/1933-45)

DBL3 Dansk biografisk leksikon (Copenhagen, 3/1979-84)

DBNM Darmstädter Beiträge zur neuen Musik

DBP E. Vieira, ed.: Diccionário biográphico de musicos portuguezes (Lisbon, 1900)

DCB Dictionary of Canadian Biography

DČHP Dějiny české hudby v příkladech (Prague, 1958)

DDT Denkmäler deutscher Tonkunst

Del. Delmark

DEMF A. Devriès and F. Lesure: Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français

DEUMM Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti

DeutschMPN O.E. Deutsch: Music Publishers' Numbers (London, 1946)

DF Discographical Forum

DHM Documenta historica musicae

Dichter-ShapiroSM H. Dichter and E. Shapiro: Early American Sheet Music

Dis. Discovery

DJbM Deutsches Jahrbuch der Musikwissenschaft

DlabacžKL G.J. Dlabacž: Allgemeines historisches Künstler-Lexikon

DM Documenta musicologica (Kassel, 1951-)

DMt Dansk musiktidsskrift

DMV Drammaturgia musicale veneta (Milan, 1983-)

DNB Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 1885-1901, suppls., 1901-96)

DoddI G. Dodd, ed.: Thematic Index of Music for Viols (London, 1980-)

Dra. Dragon

DTB Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Bayern

DTÖ Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich

DugganIMI M.K. Duggan: Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (Berkeley, 1991)

DVLG Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte (1923-)

EB Electric Bird

ECCS The Eighteenth-Century Continuo Sonata

ECFC The Eighteenth-Century French Cantata

EDM Das Erbe deutscher Musik

EECM Early English Church Music

EG Etudes grégoriennes

EI The Encyclopaedia of Islam (Leiden, 1928-38, 2/1960-)

EinsteinIM A. Einstein: The Italian Madrigal (Princeton, NJ, 1949/R)

EIT Yezhegodnik imperatorskikh teatrov

EitnerQ R. Eitner: Biographisch-bibliographisches Quellen-Lexikon

EitnerS R. Eitner: Bibliographie der Musik-Sammelwerke des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts (Berlin, 1877/R)

EKM Early Keyboard Music

EL The English School of Lutenist Songwriters, rev. as The English Lute-Songs

Elec. Electrola

Elek. Elektra

Elek. Mus. Elektra Musician

EM The English Madrigal School, rev. as The English Madrigalists

EmA EmArcy

EMc Early Music

EMC1 Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Toronto, 1981)

EMC2 Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (Toronto, 2/1992)

EMDC A. Lavignac and L. de La Laurencie, eds.: Encyclopédie de la musique et dictionnaire du Conservatoire

EMH Early Music History

EMN Exempla musica neerlandica

EMS see EM

EMuz Encyklopedia muzyczne

ERO Early Romantic Opera

ES Elite Special

ES English Song 1600-1675 (New York, 1986-9)

ES Enciclopedia dello spettacolo

ESLS see EL

Eso. Esoteric

EthM Ethnomusicology

Ev. Everest

EW East Wind

Ewd Eastworld

EwenD D. Ewen: American Composers: a Biographical Dictionary

FaD Famous Door

FAM Fontes artis musicae

Fan. Fantasy

FasquelleE Encyclopédie de la musique

FCVR Florilège du concert vocal de la Renaissance

FD Flying Dutchman

FDisk Flying Disk

Feather '60s L. Feather: The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties (New York, 1966/R1986) FeatherE L. Feather: The Encyclopedia of Jazz (New York, 1955, rev. and enlarged 2/1960/R1984) Feather-Gitler '70s L. Feather and I. Gitler: The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies (New York, 1976/R1987) Feather-Gitler BEJ L. Feather and I. Gitler: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (New York, and Oxford, England, 1999)

Fel. Felsted

FellererG K.G. Fellerer: Geschichte der katholischen Kirchenmusik (Düsseldorf, 1939, enlarged 2/1949; Eng. trans., 1961/R) FellererP K.G. Fellerer: Der Palestrinastil und seine Bedeutung in der vokalen Kirchenmusik des 18. Jahrhunderts (Augsburg, 1929/R)

FenlonMM I. Fenlon: Music and Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Mantua (Cambridge, 1980-82)

FétisB F.-J. Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens

FétisBS F.-J. Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens suppl.

FisherMP W.A. Fisher: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Music Publishing in the United States (Boston, 1933) FiskeETM R. Fiske: English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1973, 2/1986)

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FlorimoN F. Florimo: La scuola musicale di Napoli e i suoi conservatorii (Naples, 1880-83/R)

Fn Footnote

FO French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries (New York, 1983-)

Fon. Fontana

FortuneISS N. Fortune: Italian Secular Song from 1600 to 1635: the Origins and Development of Accompanied Monody (diss., U. of Cambridge, 1954)

Fre. Freedom

Friedlaender DL M. Friedlaender: Das deutsche Lied im 18. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1902/R) FriedwaldB W. Friedwald: A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers (New York, 2010) FrotscherG G. Frotscher: Geschichte des Orgelspiels und der Orgelkomposition (Berlin, 1935-6/R, music suppl. 1966)

FuldWFM J.J. Fuld: The Book of World-Famous Music

FullerPG S. Fuller: The Pandora Guide to Women Composers: Britain and the United States (1629 - Present) FürstenauG M. Fürstenau: Zur Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe zu Dresden (Dresden, 1861-2/R)

FW Folkways

Gal. Galaxy

GänzlBMT K. Gänzl: The British Musical Theatre (London, 1986)

GänzlEMT K. Gänzl and A. Lamb: Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre

GaspariC G. Gaspari: Catalogo della Biblioteca del Liceo musicale di Bologna, i-iv (Bologna, 1890-1905/R); v, ed. U. Sesini (Bologna, 1943/R)

Gen. Gennett

GerberL E.L. Gerber: Historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler

GerberNL E.L. Gerber: Neues historisch-biographisches Lexikon der Tonkünstler

GerbertS M. Gerbert: Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra potissimum (St Blasien, 1784/R, 3/1931)

GEWM The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

GfMKB Gesellschaft für Musikforschung: Kongress-Bericht [1950-]

GiacomoC S. di Giacomo: I quattro antichi conservatorii musicali di Napoli (Milan, 1924-8)

GLMT Greek and Latin Music Theory (Lincoln, NE, 1984-)

GMB Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen

GMM Gazzetta musicale di Milano

GOB German Opera 1770-1800, ed. T. Bauman (New York, 1985-6)

GöhlerV A. Göhler: Verzeichnis der in den Frankfurter und Leipziger Messkatalogen der Jahre 1564 bis 1759 angezeigten Musikalien (Leipzig, 1902/R) GoldJL R. S. Gold: A Jazz Lexicon: an A-Z Dictionary of Jazz Terms (New York, 1964, rev. 2/1975 as Jazz Talk) GoovaertsH A. Goovaerts: Histoire et bibliographie de la typographie musicale dans les Pays-Bas (Antwerp, 1880/R)

GP Guitar Player

GR Graduale sacrosanctae romanae ecclesiae (Tournai, 1938)

Gram. Gramavision

GrayF J. Gray: Fire Music: a Bibliography of the New Jazz, 1959-1990 (New York, 1991)

GrM Groove Merchant

Grove1[-5] G. Grove, ed.: A Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove6 The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Grove7 S. Sadie and J. Tyrell, eds.: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2/London, 2001)

GroveA The New Grove Dictionary of American Music

GroveA2 The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2e

GroveI The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments

GroveI2 The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2e

GroveJ The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz

GroveJ2 The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2/2002)

GroveJapan The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Jap. trans.

GroveO The New Grove Dictionary of Opera

GroveW The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers

GS W.H. Frere, ed.: Graduale sarisburiense (London, 1894/R)

GSJ Galpin Society Journal

GSL K.J. Kutsch and L. Riemann: Grosses Sängerlexikon

GTJ Good Time Jazz

GV R. Celletti: Le grandi voci: dizionario critico-biografico dei cantanti

HA Hat Art

Hal. Halcyon

HAM Historical Anthology of Music

Har. Harmony

Harl. Harlequin

HarrisonMMB F.Ll. Harrison: Music in Medieval Britain (London, 1958, 4/1980)

HawkinsH J. Hawkins: A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776)

HBSJ Historical Brass Society Journal

HDM W. Apel: Harvard Dictionary of Music

HH Hat Hut

Hick. Hickory

HiFi High Fidelity

HiFi/MusAm High Fidelity/Musical America Edition

HJb Händel-Jahrbuch

HJbMw Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft

HM Hortus musicus

HMC Historical Manuscripts Commission [Publications]

HMT Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie

HMw Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft (Potsdam, 1927-34)

HMYB Hinrichsen's Musical Year Book

HoneggerD M. Honegger: Dictionnaire de la musique

HopkinsonD C. Hopkinson: A Dictionary of Parisian Music Publishers 1700-1950

Hopkins-RimbaultO E.J. Hopkins and E.F. Rimbault: The Organ: its History and Construction (London, 1855, 3/1887/R)

Hor. Horizon

HPM Harvard Publications in Music

HR Hudební revue

HRo Hudební rozhledy

Humphries-SmithMP C. Humphries and W.C. Smith: Music Publishing in the British Isles

HV Hudební věda

IAJRCJ International Association of Jazz Record Collectors Journal

IC Inner City

ICSC The Italian Cantata in the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1985-6)

IH Indian House

IIM Italian Instrumental Music of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries

IIM Izvestiya na Instituta za muzika

IM International Musician

IMa Instituta et monumenta

ImA Improvising Artists

IMi Istituzioni e monumenti dell'arte musicale italiana (Milan, 1931-9, new ser., 1956-64)

Imp. Impulse!

Imper. Imperial

IMSCR International Musicological Society: Congress Report [1930-]

IMusSCR International Musical Society: Congress Report [II-IV, 1906-11]

IndN India Navigation

IO The Italian Oratorio 1650-1800

IOB Italian Opera 1640-1770, ed. H.M. Brown

IOG Italian Opera 1810-1840, ed. P. Gossett

IRASM International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music

IRMAS International Review of Music Aesthetics and Sociology

IRMO S.L. Ginzburg: Istoriya russkoy muzïki v notnïkh obraztsakh (Leningrad, 1940-52, 2/1968-70)

Isl. Island

ISS Italian Secular Song 1606-1636 (New York, 1986)

IZ Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift

JAM Jazz America Marketing

JAMIS Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society

JAMS Journal of the American Musicological Society

JASA Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

JazzM Jazz Monthly

J&B Jazz & Blues

JB Jazz Beat

JBIOS Journal of the British Institute of Organ Studies

JbLH Jahrbuch für Liturgik und Hymnologie

JbMP Jahrbuch der Musikbibliothek Peters

JbO Jahrbuch für Opernforschung

JbSIM Jahrbuch des Staatlichen Instituts für Musikforschung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

JCAS Journal of the Catgut Acoustical Society

JEFDSS Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Jf Jazzforschung/Jazz Research

JF [intl edn] Jazz Forum [international edition]

JF [Pol. Edn] Jazz Forum [Polish edition]

JFSS Journal of the Folk-Song Society

Jh Jazz hot, Jazz-hot

JIFMC Journal of the International Folk Music Council

JJ Jazz Journal

JJI Jazz Journal International

JJS Journal of Jazz Studies

Jlgy Jazzology

Jlnd Jazzland

JLSA Journal of the Lute Society of America

Jm Jazz magazine (Paris)

JM Journal of Musicology

JMR Journal of Musicological Research

JMT Journal of Music Theory

JoãoIL [João IV:] Primeira parte do index da livraria de musica do muyto alto, e poderoso Rey Dom João o IV. nosso senhor (Lisbon, 1649); ed. J. de Vasconcellos (Oporto, 1874-6)

JohanssonFMP C. Johansson: French Music Publishers' Catalogues (Stockholm, 1955)

JohanssonH C. Johansson: J.J. & B. Hummel: Music Publishing and Thematic Catalogues (Stockholm, 1972)

J&P Jazz and Pop

JP Jazz-Podium

JPMigneParis184464 J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1844-64)

JPMMS Journal of the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society

JR Jazz Review

JRBM Journal of Renaissance and Baroque Music

JRMA Journal of the Royal Musical Association

JRME Journal of Research in Music Education

JSAM Journal of the Society for American Music

JSN Jazz Spotlite News

JT Jazz Times (Washington, 1980-)

Jub. Jubilee

JVdGSA Journal of the Viola da Gamba Society of America

JVNM see Bouwsteenen: JVNM

Jwl Jewell

Jzt. Jazztone

KdG Komponisten der Gegenwart, ed. H.-W. Heister and W.-W. Sparrer

KermanEM J. Kerman: The Elizabethan Madrigal: a Comparative Study (New York, 1962)

Key. Keynote

KidsonBMP F. Kidson: British Music Publishers, Printers and Engravers

KingMP A.H. King: Four Hundred Years of Music Printing (London, 1964)

KirbyMISA P.R. Kirby: The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa (London, 1934, 2/1965)

KJb Kirchenmusikalisches Jahrbuch

KM Kwartalnik muzyczny

KöchelKHM L. von Köchel: Die kaiserliche Hof-Musikkapelle in Wien von 1543 bis 1867 (Vienna, 1869/R)

KretzschmarG H. Kretzschmar: Geschichte des neuen deutschen Liedes (Leipzig, 1911/R)

KrummelEMP D.W. Krummel: English Music Printing (London, 1975)

Kt. Keytone

LaborD Diccionario de la música Labor

La BordeE J.-B. de La Borde: Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne D

LabordeMP L.E.S.J. de Laborde: Musiciens de Paris, 1535-1792

LafontaineKM H.C. de Lafontaine: The King's Musick (London, 1909/R)

La LaurencieEF L. de La Laurencie: L'école française de violon de Lully à Viotti (Paris, 1922-4/R)

LAMR Latin American Music Review

LaMusicaD La musica: dizionario

LaMusicaE La musica: enciclopedia storica

LangwillI7 see Waterhouse-LangwillI

LaurentyA J.S. Laurenty: Systématique des aerophones de l'Afrique centrale (Tervuren, 1974)

LaurentyC J.S. Laurenty: Les chordophones du Congo belge et du Ruanda Urundi (Tervuren, 1960)

LaurentyS J.S. Laurenty: Les sanza du Congo (Tervuren, 1962)

LaurentyTF J.S. Laurenty: Les tambours à fente de l'Afrique centrale (Tervuren, 1968)

LedeburTLB C. von Ledebur: Tonkünstler-Lexicon Berlin's (Berlin, 1861/R)

Le HurayMR P. Le Huray: Music and the Reformation in England, 1549-1660 (London, 1967, 2/1978)

Lib. Liberty

LipowskyBL F.J. Lipowsky: Baierisches Musik-Lexikon

LM Lucrări de muzicologie

Lml. Limelight

LockwoodMRF L. Lockwood: Music in Renaissance Ferrara (Oxford, 1984)

LoewenbergA A. Loewenberg: Annals of Opera, 1597-1940

Lon. London

LPS The London Pianoforte School 1766-1860

LS The London Stage, 1660-1800 (Carbondale, IL, 1960-68)

LSJ Lute Society Journal

LU Liber usualis missae et officii pro dominicis et festis duplicibus cum cantu gregoriano (Solesmes, 1896, and later edns incl. Tournai, 1963) LütgendorffGL W.L. von Lütgendorff: Die Geigen- und Lauten-macher vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart

LZMÖ Lexikon zeitgenössischer Musik aus Österreich (Vienna, 1997)

MA Musical Antiquary

MAB Musica antiqua bohemica

MAk Muzïkal ′naya akademiya

MAM Musik alter Meister

MAMF Maîtres anciens de la musique française

MAMS Monumenta artis musicae Sloveniae

MAn Music Analysis

MAP Musica antiqua polonica

MAS Musical Antiquarian Society [Publications]

MatthesonGEP J. Mattheson: Grundlage einer Ehren-Pforte (Hamburg, 1740); ed. Max Schneider (Berlin, 1910/R)

MB Musica britannica

MC Musica da camera

McCarthyB A. McCarthy: Big Band Jazz (London, 1974)

McCarthyJR A. McCarthy: Jazz on Record (London, 1968)

MCL H. Mendel and A. Reissmann, eds.: Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon (Berlin, 1870-80, 3/1890-91/R)

MD Musica disciplina

Mdsv. Moodsville

ME Muzïkal ′naya entsiklopediya

MEJ Music Educators Journal

Mel. Melodiya

MEM Mestres de l'Escolanía de Montserrat

Mer. Mercury

MersenneHU M. Mersenne: Harmonie universelle

Met. Metronome

Metro. Metrojazz

MeyerECM E.H. Meyer: English Chamber Music (London, 1946/R, rev. 3/1982 with D. Poulton as Early English Chamber Music)

MeyerMS E.H. Meyer: Die mehrstimmige Spielmusik des 17. Jahrhunderts (Kassel, 1934)

MF Music in Facsimile (New York, 1983-91)

Mf Die Musikforschung

MG Musik und Gesellschaft

MGG1 Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart

MGG2 Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2e

MGGO Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart Online

MGH Monumenta Germaniae historica

MH Música hispana

MischiatiI O. Mischiati: Indici, cataloghi e avvisi degli editori e librai musicali italiani (Florence, 1984)

MISM Mitteilungen der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum

MJb Mozart-Jahrbuch [Salzburg, 1950-]

MJR Master Jazz Recordings

ML Music & Letters

MLE Music for London Entertainment 1660-1800

MLMI Monumenta lyrica medii aevi italica

Mlst. Milestone

Mlt. Melotone

MM Modern Music

MMA Miscellanea musicologica [Australia]

MMB Monumenta musicae byzantinae

MMBel Monumenta musicae belgicae

MMC Miscellanea musicologica [Czechoslovakia]

MME Monumentos de la música española

MMFTR Monuments de la musique française au temps de la Renaissance

MMg Monatshefte für Musikgeschichte

MMI Monumenti di musica italiana

MMMA Monumenta monodica medii aevi

MMN Monumenta musica neerlandica

MMP Monumenta musicae in Polonia

MMR Monthly Musical Record

MMRF Les maîtres musiciens de la Renaissance française

MMS Monumenta musicae svecicae

MNAN Music of the New American Nation

MO Musical Opinion

Moers Moers Music

MonE Monmouth-Evergreen

MooserA R.-A. Mooser: Annales de la musique et des musiciens en Russie au XVIIIme siècle MoserGV A. Moser: Geschichte des Violinspiels (Berlin, 1923, rev. 2/1966-7 by H.J. Nösselt)

MQ Musical Quarterly

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MR Music Review

MRM Monuments of Renaissance Music

MRS Musiche rinascimentali siciliane

MS Muzïkal ′nïy sovremennik

MSD Musicological Studies and Documents

Mstr. Mainstream

Musi. Musicraft

MT Musical Times

MusAm Musical America

MVH Musica viva historica

MVSSP Musiche vocali e strumentali sacre e profane

Mw Das Musikwerk

MZ Muzikološki zbornik

NA Note d'archivio per la storia musicale

Nat. National

NAW E.T. James, J.W. James, and P.S. Boyer, eds.: Notable American Women (Cambridge, MA, 1971; suppl., 1980)

NBeJb Neues Beethoven-Jahrbuch

NBL Norsk biografisk leksikon (Oslo, 1923-83)

NDB Neue deutsche Biographie (Berlin, 1953-)

Neighbour-TysonPN O.W. Neighbour and A. Tyson: English Music Publishers' Plate Numbers (London, 1965)

NericiS L. Nerici: Storia della musica in Lucca (Lucca, 1879/R)

NewcombMF A. Newcomb: The Madrigal at Ferrara, 1579-1597 (Princeton, NJ, 1980)

NewJ New Jazz

NewmanSBE W.S. Newman: The Sonata in the Baroque Era (Chapel Hill, NC, 1959, 4/1983) NewmanSCE W.S. Newman: The Sonata in the Classic Era (Chapel Hill, NC, 1963, 3/1983)

NewmanSSB W.S. Newman: The Sonata since Beethoven (Chapel Hill, NC, 1969, 3/1983)

NicollH A. Nicoll: The History of English Drama, 1660-1900 (Cambridge, 1952-9)

NM Nagels Musik-Archiv

NMÅ Norsk musikkgranskning årbok

NNBW Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek (Leiden, 1911-37)

NÖB Neue österreichische Biographie (Vienna, 1923-35)

NOHM The New Oxford History of Music (Oxford, 1954-90)

Norg. Norgan

NRMI Nuova rivista musicale italiana

NW New World

NZM Neue Zeitschrift für Musik

ODNB Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004–)

OHM The Oxford History of Music (Oxford, 1901-5, 2/1929-38)

OK Okeh

OM Opus musicum

Omni. Omnisound

ÖMz Österreichische Musikzeitschrift

ON Opera News

OQ Opera Quarterly

OW Opernwelt

PAct Pathé Actuelle

PalMus Paléographie musicale

PAlt Palo Alto

PAMS Papers of the American Musicological Society

PÄMw Publikation älterer praktischer und theoretischer Musikwerke

Para. Paramount

Parl. Parlophone

PazdírekH B. Pazdírek: Universal-Handbuch der Musikliteratur aller Zeiten und Völker (Vienna, 1904-10/R)

PBC Publicaciones del departamento de música

PEM C. Dahlhaus and S. Döhring, eds.: Pipers Enzyklopädie des Musiktheaters (Munich and Zürich, 1986-97)

Per. Perfect

PG Patrologiae cursus completus, ii: Series graeca, ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1857-1912)

PGfM see PÄMw

Phi. Philips

Phon. Phontastic

PierreH C. Pierre: Histoire du Concert spirituel 1725-1790 (Paris, 1975)

PIISM Pubblicazioni dell’Istituto italiano per la storia della musica

PirroHM A. Pirro: Histoire de la musique de la fin du XIVe

PirrottaDO N. Pirrotta and E. Povoledo: Li due Orfei: da Poliziano a Monteverdi (Turin, 1969, enlarged 2/1975; Eng. trans., 1982, as Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Monteverdi) PitoniN G.O. Pitoni: Notitia de contrapuntisti e de compositori di musica (MS, c1725, I-Rvat C.G.I/1-2); ed. C. Ruini (Florence, 1988)

Pj Le point du jazz

PJ Pacific Jazz

PL Pablo Live

PL Patrologiae cursus completus, i: Series latina, ed.

PM Portugaliae musica

PMA Proceedings of the Musical Association

PMFC Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century

PMM Plainsong and Medieval Music

PNM Perspectives of New Music

Pol. Polydor

PraetoriusSM M. Praetorius: Syntagma musicum, i (Wittenberg and Wolfenbüttel, 1614-15, 2/1615/R); ii (Wolfenbüttel, 1618, 2/1619/R; Eng. trans., 1986, 2/1991); iii (Wolfenbüttel, 1618, 2/1619/R)

PraetoriusTI M. Praetorius: Theatrum instrumentorum [pt ii/2 of PraetoriusSM]

PRM Polski rocznik muzykologiczny

PRMA Proceedings of the Royal Musical Association

Prog. Progressive

Prst. Prestige

Przywecka-SameckaDM M. Przywecka-Samecka: Drukarstwo muzyczne w Polsce do końca XVIII wieku (Kraków, 1969)

PSB Polskich słownik biograficzny (Kraków, 1935)

PSFM Publications [Société française de musicologie]

PT Pablo Today

PW Paddle Wheel

Quaderni della RAM Quaderni della Rassegna musicale

Qual. Qualiton

Rad JAZU Rad Jugoslavenske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti

RaM Rassegna musicale

RBM Revue belge de musicologie

RdM Revue de musicologie

RdMc Revista de musicología

ReclamsJ C. Bohländer and K. H. Holler: Reclams Jazzführer (Stuttgart, Germany, 1970, rev. and enlarged 2/1977)

ReeseMMA G. Reese: Music in the Middle Ages (New York, 1940)

ReeseMR G. Reese: Music in the Renaissance (New York, 1954, 2/1959)

RefardtHBM E. Refardt: Historisch-biographisches Musikerlexikon der Schweiz

Reg. Regent

ReM Revue musicale

Rep. Reprise

Rev. Revelation

RFS Romantic French Song 1830-1870

RGMP Revue et gazette musicale de Paris

RHCM Revue d'histoire et de critique musicales

RicciTB C. Ricci: I teatri di Bologna nei secoli XVII e XVIII: storia aneddotica (Bologna, 1888/R)

RicordiE C. Sartori and R. Allorto: Enciclopedia della musica

RiemannG H. Riemann: Geschichte der Musiktheorie im IX.-XIX. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 2/1921/R; Eng. trans. of pts i-ii, 1962/R, and pt iii, 1977)

RiemannL11 Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon (11/1929)

RiemannL12 Hugo Riemanns Musiklexikon (12/1959-75)

RIM Rivista italiana di musicologia

RIMS Rivista internazionale di musica sacra

Riv. Riverside

RM Ruch muzyczny

RMARC R.M.A. [Royal Musical Association] Research Chronicle

RMC Revista musical chilena

RMF Renaissance Music in Facsimile (New York, 1986-8)

RMFC Recherches sur la musique française classique

RMG Russkaya muzïkal ′naya gazeta

RMI Rivista musicale italiana

RMS Renaissance Manuscript Studies (Stuttgart, 1975-)

RN Renaissance News

RosaM C. de Rosa, Marchese di Villarosa: Memorie dei compositori di musica del regno di Napoli (Naples, 1840)

Roul. Roulette

RR Red Records

RRAM Recent Researches in American Music

RRMBE Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

RRMCE Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era

RRMMA Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance RRMNETC Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

RRMR Recent Researches in the Music of the Renaissance

RS Rolling Stone

RT Real Time

SachsH C. Sachs: The History of Musical Instruments (New York, 1940)

Sack. Sackville

SainsburyD J.H. Sainsbury: A Dictionary of Musicians

SartoriB C. Sartori: Bibliografia della musica strumentale italiana stampata in Italia fino al 1700 (Florence, 1952-68)

SartoriD C. Sartori: Dizionario degli editori musicali italiani

SartoriL C. Sartori: I libretti italiani a stampa dalle origini al 1800 (Cuneo, 1990-94)

Sat. Saturn

SBL Svenskt biografiskt lexikon (Stockholm, 1918-)

SCC The Sixteenth-Century Chanson

ScheringGIK A. Schering: Geschichte des Instrumental-Konzerts (Leipzig, 1905, 2/1927/R)

ScheringGO A. Schering: Geschichte des Oratoriums (Leipzig, 1911/R)

SchillingE G. Schilling: Encyclopädie der gesammten musikalischen Wissenschaften, oder Universal-Lexicon der Tonkunst

SČHK Slovník české hudební kultury (Prague, 1997)

SchmidlD C. Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti

SchmidlDS C. Schmidl: Dizionario universale dei musicisti suppl.

SchmitzG E. Schmitz: Geschichte der weltlichen Solokantate (Leipzig, 1914, 2/1955)

SchullerEJ G. Schuller: Early Jazz (New York, 1968/R)

SchullerSE G. Schuller: The Swing Era (New York, 1989)

SchwarzGM B. Schwarz: Great Masters of the Violin

SCISM Seventeenth-Century Italian Sacred Music

SCKM Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music (New York, 1987-8)

SCMA Smith College Music Archives

SCMad Sixteenth-Century Madrigal

SCMot Sixteenth-Century Motet

SE Strata-East

SeegerL H. Seeger: Musiklexikon

SEM Series of Early Music [University of California]

SennMT W. Senn: Musik und Theater am Hof zu Innsbruck (Innsbruck, 1954)

SH Slovenská hudba

SheridanCB C. Sheridan: Count Basie: a Bio-discography (Westport, CT, and London, 1986)

siècleàlafinduXVIeParis1940 siècle à la fin du XVIe (Paris, 1940)

Sig. Signature

SIMG Sammelbände der Internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft

SJ Swing Journal

SKM Sovetskiye kompozitorï i muzïkovedï (Moscow, 1978-89)

SL Second Line

Slnd Southland

SM see SMH

SMA Studies in Music [Australia]

SMC Studies in Music from the University of Western Ontario [Canada]

SMd Schweizerische Musikdenkmäler

SMH Studia musicologica Academiae scientiarum hungaricae

SmitherHO H. Smither: A History of the Oratorio (Chapel Hill, NC, 1977-)

SML Schweizer Musikerlexikon

SMM Summa musicae medii aevi

SMN Studia musicologica norvegica

SMP Słownik muzyków polskich

SMSC Solo Motets from the Seventeenth Century (New York, 1987-8)

SMw Studien zur Musikwissenschaft

SMz Schweizerische Musikzeitung/Revue musicale suisse

SN Soul Note

SOB Süddeutsche Orgelmeister des Barock

SOI L. Bianconi and G. Pestelli, eds.: Storia dell'opera italiana (Turin, 1987-; Eng. trans., 1998-) SolertiMBD A. Solerti: Musica, ballo e drammatica alla corte medicea dal 1600 al 1637 (Florence, 1905/R)

SolS Solid State

Son. Sonora

SouthernB E. Southern: Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians

SovM Sovetskaya muzïka

SpataroC B.J. Blackburn, E.E. Lowinsky and C.A. Miller: A Correspondence of Renaissance Musicians (Oxford, 1991) SpinkES I. Spink: English Song: Dowland to Purcell (London, 1974, repr. 1986 with corrections)

Spot. Spotlite

Ste. Steeplechase

StevensonSCM R. Stevenson: Spanish Cathedral Music in the Golden Age (Berkeley, 1961/R)

StevensonSM R. Stevenson: Spanish Music in the Age of Columbus (The Hague, 1960/R)

StiegerO F. Stieger: Opernlexikon

STMf Svensk tidskrift för musikforskning

Sto. Storyville

StrohmM R. Strohm: Music in Late Medieval Bruges (Oxford, 1985)

StrohmR R. Strohm: The Rise of European Music (Cambridge, 1993)

StrunkSR2 O. Strunk: Source Readings in Music History (New York, rev. 2/1998 by L. Treitler)

SubiráHME J. Subirá: Historia de la música española ehispanoamericana

Sup. Supraphon

Sv Storyville

Tak. Takoma

TCM Tudor Church Music

TCMS Three Centuries of Music in Score (New York, 1988-90)

Tei. Teichiku

Tel. Telefunken

The. Theresa

Thompson1[-11] O. Thompson: The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1st-11th edns

Tim. Timeless

TL Time-Life

TM Thesauri musici

TraceyCSA H. Tracey: Catalogue of the Sound of Africa Series (Roodeport, 1973)

Tran. Transition

TSM Tesoro sacro musical

TuckerDE M. Tucker, ed.: The Duke Ellington Reader (New York, and Oxford, England, 1993)

TVNM Tijdschrift van de Vereniging voor Nederlandse muziekgeschiedenis [and earlier variants]

UA United Artists

Upt. Uptown

UVNM Uitgave van oudere Noord-Nederlandsche Meesterwerken

Van. Vanguard

Vander StraetenMPB E. Vander Straeten: La musique aux Pays-Bas avantle XIXe siècle

VannesD R. Vannes, with A. Souris: Dictionnaire des musiciens (compositeurs)

VannesE R. Vannes: Essai d'un dictionnaire universel des luthiers

Var. Variety

Vars. Varsity

Vic. Victor

VintonD J. Vinton: Dictionary of Contemporary Music

VirdungMG S. Virdung: Musica getutscht (Basle, 1511/R)

VJ Vee-Jay

VMw Vierteljahrsschrift für Musikwissenschaft

Voc. Vocalion

VogelB E. Vogel: Bibliothek der gedruckten weltlichen Vocalmusik Italiens, aus den Jahren 1500 bis 1700 (Berlin, 1892/R)

VV Village Voice

WalterG F. Walter: Geschichte des Theaters und der Musik am kurpfalzischen Hofe (Leipzig, 1898/R)

WaltherML J.G. Walther: Musicalisches Lexicon, oder Musicalische Bibliothec

Waterhouse-LangwillI W. Waterhouse: The New Langwill Index: a Dictionary of Musical Wind-Instrument Makers and Inventors

WB Warner Bros.

WDMP Wydawnictwo dawnej muzyki polskiej

WE The Wellesley Edition

WECIS Wellesley Edition Cantata Index Series (Wellesley, MA, 1964-72)

WeinmannWM A. Weinmann: Wiener Musikverleger und Musikalienhändler von Mozarts Zeit bis gegen 1860 (Vienna, 1956) WickesIBJ, i J. Wickes: Innovations in British Jazz, i: 1900-1980 (Chelmsford, England, 1999) WilliamsNH P. Williams: A New History of the Organ: from the Greeks to the Present Day (London, 1980) WinterfeldEK C. von Winterfeld: Der evangelische Kirchengesang und sein Verhältniss zur Kunst des Tonsatzes (Leipzig, 1843-7/R)

WolfeMEP R.J. Wolfe: Early American Music Engraving and Printing (Urbana, IL, 1980)

WolfH J. Wolf: Handbuch der Notationskunde (Leipzig, 1913-19/R)

WP World Pacific

WurzbachL C. von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (Vienna, 1856-91)

Xan. Xanadu

YIAMR Yearbook, Inter-American Institute for Musical Research, later Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research

YIFMC Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council

YoungHI P.T. Young: 4900 Historical Woodwind Instruments (London, 1993) [enlarged 2nd edn of Twenty Five Hundred Historical Woodwind Instruments (New York, 1982)]

ZahnM J. Zahn: Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder (Gütersloh, 1889-93/R)

ZfM Zeitschrift für Musik

ŹHMP Źródła do historii muzyki polskiej

ZI Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau

ZIMG Zeitschrift der Internationalen Musik-Gesellschaft

ZL Zenei lexikon

ZMw Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft

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