About This Guide
This guide presents basic and specialized resources for researching the most significant aspects of Classical music in Europe and the Americas. For the ease of division, the PUL guides group Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) with the Classical Period rather than Romantic/19th-century.
Surveys of Classical Music
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music (Online) by Call Number: ML195 .C35 2009 (print version)ISBN: 9780521663199Publication Date: 2009Organized by genre; "chapters are grouped according to the traditional distinctions of music for the church, music for the theatre and music for the concert room that conditioned so much thinking, activity and output in the eighteenth century."
