Research Guides: 20th- & 21st-Century Music: A Guide to Research and Resources: Books & Catalogs

Reference Works

Music since 1900, 6th ed. by Nicholas Slonimsky; Laura Kuhn
Call Number: Reference (SV) ML 197 .S634 2001
The 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.

The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music
Edited 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."