Key Electronic Texts
- The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century MusicEdited by Nicholas Cook and Anthony Pople. "An international authorship brings a wide variety of approaches to music history, but the aim throughout is to set musical developments in the context of social, ideological, and technological change, and to understand reception and consumption as integral to the history of music."
Reference Works
Music since 1900, 6th ed. by Call Number: Reference (SV) ML 197 .S634 2001Publication Date: 2001The final 20th-century edition of this seminal work, an almost day-by-day, descriptive chronology of events in music history from January 1, 1900 through December 14, 2000. Also includes English versions of key letters and documents, and a list of terms.
Research Guides & Companions
The Oxford Handbook of Music Listening in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Online) by Call Number: ML3916 .O968 2019Publication Date: 2018Asks whether, how, and why practices of music listening changed as the audience moved from pleasure gardens and concert venues in the eighteenth century to living rooms in the twentieth century, and mobile devices in the twenty-first.
