Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and companions are great background resources when researching composers, genres of music, and time periods. Many of these resources are now provided by the library as ebooks.
The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz by
This Companion contains essays by eminent scholars on Berlioz's place in nineteenth-century French cultural life, on his principal compositions (symphonies, overtures, operas, sacred works, songs), on his major writings (a delightful volume of memoires, a number of short stories, large quantities of music criticism, an orchestration treatise), on his direct and indirect encounters with other famous musicians (Gluck, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner), and on his legacy in France.
