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Musical Theatre

An overview of the resources available for researchers in the field of Musical Theatre.

Online Reference

Oxford Music Online
Brings together an unrivaled collection of entries — 12,500 in all — covering musical subjects of all kinds in an authoritative and accessible way. Included in this impressive work are entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics. Includes: Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online, and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Reference Books

Reference Titles on the shelves on the 7th Floor of Bobst Library in the Avery Fisher Center Reference area, many with online links.

Little musicals for little theatres : a reference guide to the musicals that don't need chandeliers or helicopters to succeed
Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection (MT955 .F55 2006) Offsite Available
ISBN: 0879103213
Broadway musicals, 1943-2004
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML102.M98 S74 2006 Non-circulating)
ISBN: 0786422440
The American musical : a literary study within the context of American drama and American theater with references to selected American musicals by Richard Ro[d]gers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and James Lap
Call Number: NYU Bobst Main Collection (ML1711 .B38 2003
ISBN: 382888458X
Opera plot index : a guide to locating plots and descriptions of operas, operettas, and other works of the musical theater, and associated material
ISBN: 0824046218
A century of musicals in black and white : an encyclopedia of musical stage works by, about, or involving African Americans
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML102.M98 P37 1993 Non-Circulating)
ISBN: 0313266573
Encyclopaedia of the musical theatre
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML102.M98 G798 Non-circulating)
ISBN: 0396072216
The Oxford companion to the American musical : theatre, film, and television
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML102.M88 H593 2008 Non-circulating)
ISBN: 0195335333
The queer encyclopedia of music, dance & musical theater / The queer encyclopedia of music, dance & musical theater
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML100 .Q44 2004 Non-circulating)
ISBN: 1573441988
Stage it with music : an encyclopedic guide to the American musical theatre
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML102.M98 H6 1993 Non-circulating)
ISBN: 0313287082
The Blackwell guide to the musical theatre on record
Call Number: NYU Bobst Music Reference (ML156.9 .G36 1990 Non-circulating)
ISBN: 0631165177
The American musical theatre song encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780313294075
The Theatermania guide to musical theater recordings
ISBN: 0823084353
A chronology of American musical theater
ISBN: 0195088883
The encyclopedia of the musical theatre
ISBN: 9780028649702
The book of world-famous libretti : the musical theater from 1598 to today
ISBN: 0945193483
American song : the complete musical theatre companion
ISBN: 0028704843
The new Broadway song companion : an annotated guide to musical theatre literature by voice type and song style
Call Number: EBook Central
ISBN: 9780810869448
Musical theater synopses : an index
ISBN: 0810834898
American song : the complete musical theater companion, 1900-1984
ISBN: 0871969610
American song : the complete musical theater companion, 1900-1984
ISBN: 0871969610
Catalog of the American musical : musicals of Irving Berlin, George & Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart
ISBN: 0961857501
The performer's guide to theater songs
ISBN: 9781472595119
Musical theatre song : a comprehensive course in selection, preparation, and presentation for the modern performer
ISBN: 1472595106
Songs of the American theater: a comprehensive listing of more than 12,000 songs, including selected titles from film and television productions
ISBN: 9780396066576