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Music performance: percussion: Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Welcome to the research guide for Percussion, a starting point for finding journal articles, books, data and more!

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

The following music dictionaries and encyclopedias provide entries on percussion history, performance, and repertoire, as well as biographical entries about percussionists and composers of percussion music.  Entries may include images, musical examples, and bibliographies of scholarly sources for further reading.