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1. **Noodletools**--sign into your account and create a new project using MLA Advanced.


 * 2. Use an online encyclopedia** like Grolier (Choose Encyclopedia Americana or Grolier Mulitmedia Encyclopedia) or World Book Onlineline to get background information on your composer (Reference source, online, in Noodletools) //Note the recommended websites in the encyclopedia articles. They are usually GREAT!//

[| ABC-CLIO databases] Daily Life Through History for the historical background you need  [|SIRS]: Includes //SIRS Discoverer,// //Researcher//, //Government Reporter// and **//Renaissance Researcher// (art. music and history).**
 * 3. GREAT Databases!**

4.. **Look over the print materials** from the Library such as:
 * 781.6 KAL || Kallen, Stuart A. //**The history of classical music**// . San Diego Detroit, MI : Lucent Books Thompson/Gale, c2003.
 * //Summary://** Discusses the evolution of classical music, including the contributions of various cultures and composers. Brief biographical sketches of significant composers are included. ||
 * 921 STRAVINSKY || Whiting, Jim. //**The life and times of Igor Stravinsky**//. Hockessin, Del: Mitchell Lane, c2005.
 * //Summary://** Presents a short biography of early twentieth-century, Russian-born, American composer Igor Stravinsky and chronicles some of his works including "The Rite of Spring" and "The Firebird and Petrushka." ||
 * REF 780 AMM || Ammer, Christine. //**The Facts on File dictionary of music**// . New York : Facts on File, Inc, c2004.
 * //Summary://** Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of over three thousand musical terms, covering composers, techniques, styles, instruments, specific works, and many other topics. ||
 * REF 780 EWE || Ewen, David. //**Great composers, 1300-1900: a biographical and critical guide**//. New York: H. W. Wilson Co, 1966. ||
 * REF 780 KEN || Kennedy, Michael. //**The Oxford dictionary of music**//. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
 * //Summary://** A dictionary of music, featuring over 12,500 alphabetically arranged entries, covering composers, conductors and performers, directors, writers, music journals, musical terms, venues, instruments, and themes. ||
 * REF 780 SCH || Schonberg, Harold C. //**The lives of the great composers**//. New York: W.W. Norton, c1997.
 * //Summary://** A collection of brief biographies discussing the lives of composers from throughout history, beginning with seventeenth century musician Claudio Monteverdi and continuing in chronological order through the mid-twentieth century to illustrate the continuity of music history. ||
 * REF 780 STE || Steen, Michael. //**The lives and times of the great composers**//. Oxford, UK New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
 * //Summary://** Presents a comprehensive anthology of great classical composers spanning three hundred fifty years of European history and includes biographical sketches on Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Tchaikovsky, and many more. ||
 * REF 780.3 ENC || //**The encyclopedia of Classical music**// . London : Carlton, c1999.
 * //Summary://** Contains a series of illustrated, two-page articles that provide information on various aspects of Classical music, covering movements in music, composers, forms and styles, ensembles, instruments, words and music, and the elements of music. ||
 * REF 780.9 CLA || Claghorn, Charles Eugene. //**Biographical dictionary of American music**//. West Nyack, N.Y: Parker Pub. Co, [1973].
 * //Summary://** Compiles information on more than five thousand performers, composers, and lyricists since the seventeenth century. ||
 * REF 780.922 GRE || //**The great composers: their lives and times**//. New York: Marshall Cavendish Corp, 1987.
 * //Summary://** Ten volume set covering virtually all classical composers. Separate volumes discuss opera, and classical music itself. ||


 * REF 903 BIN || Bingham, Jane. //**The Usborne inter-linked encyclopedia of world history**//. London Tulsa, Okla: Usborne EDC Pub, c2000.
 * //Summary://** A color-illustrated chronicle of the world's history, arranged in four chronological categories: the prehistoric world, the ancient world, the medieval world, and the last five hundred years (through 2000), that also presents addresses for more than two hundred Web sites related to topics covered. ||
 * REF 909 DAN || Daniels, Patricia. //**National Geographic almanac of world history / Pat Daniels and Stephen Hyslop**//. Washington, D.C: National Geographic, 2003. ||


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@http://www.imdb.com/
 * IMDB.com: GOOD one for movie composers**

Austria Info. __Franz Schubert__. 2 Nov 2011. <[|http://www.austria.info/xxl/_site/en/_area/4080] [| 17/_subArea/408062/_aid/308800/index.html]>.

Metropolitan News Company. __Edvard Grieg__. 01 Oct 2001. 2 Nov 2011. <[|http://www.mnc.net/norw] [| ay/EHG.htm]>.

Sherrane, Robert. __Music History 102 : the Internet Public Library__. 16 Dec 1997. 2 Nov 2011. <[]>.

Sony Music Entertainment. __Essentials of Music : Composers__. 2 Nov 2011. <[|http://www.essenti] [| alsofmusic.com/composer/complist.html]>.

Petrucci Music Library. **International Music Score Library Project**. 2 Nov. 2011. @http://imslp.org/wiki/

Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. 2 Nov. 2011. http://www.stevenestrella.com/composers/index.html (Check out the Timeline!)

Ofletters.com - Great information about many composers! http://www.ofletters.com/composers/