A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of 'Twelve-Tone and Serial Composers. (1970)
ML 105 .C39
Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary. 2d ed.
REF ML 390 .A54 1982
Composers in America: Biographical Sketches of Contemporary Composers with a Record of their Works (1947)
ML 390 .R38 1947
Contemporary Composers
REF ML 390 .M677 1992
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Composers (1911-1971)
REF ML 118 .T5
Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada
ML 13 .D57
Index to Biographies of Contemporary Composers
ML 105 .B9 v.1-
Music Since 1900 (1994)
REF ML 197 .S634 1994
Black Women Composers: A Genesis
ML 390 .G83 1983
International Encyclopedia of Women Composers
REF ML 105 .C7 1987
Women Composers: a Handbook
REF ML 105 .S7
Women Composers, Condutors, and Musicians of the Twentieth Century
ML 82 .L46
Women in Music: A Biobibliography.
REF ML 105 .H6
Concert and Opera Conductors
ML 128 .B3 C68 1987
Concert and Opera Singers
REF ML 128 .B3 C7 1985
Conductors' Gallery: Biographical Sketches of Well-Known Orchestral Conductors
ML 402 .B76 1947
Conductors on Record
REF ML 105 .H65
The Penguin Dictionary of Musical Performers
REF ML 105 .J33 1990
Twentieth-Century Brass Soloists
ML 399 .M4 1994
Visit the Composers You Should Know Guide - many composers listed by time period
Art Song Composers of Spain: An Encyclopedia
REF ML 106. S7 D73 2009
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
REF ML 105 .B16 2001 v.1-6
Biographical Dictionary of Black Musicians and Music Educators
ML 85 .B43
Biographical Dictionary of Russian/Soviet Composers
REF ML 106. S68 B56 1989
Contemporary Musicians
REF ML 385 .C615
The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
REF ML 105 .H38 1996
International Dictionary of Opera
REF ML 102. O6 I6 1993 v.1-2
International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory
REF ML 106. G7 W4
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
REF ML 101. U6 N48 1986 v.1-4
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
REF ML102.J3 N48 1994
REF ML102.J3 N48 1988
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
REF ML 100 .N48 1980 (more current online)
Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians
REF ML 105 .S67 1982
Biographical Dictionary of American Music
REF ML 106. U3 C6
Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary
REF ML 390 .A54 1982
Dictionary of American Composers
REF ML 106 .U3 B87 1984
Directory of Music Faculties in Colleges and Universities, U.S. and Canada
ML 13 .D57
Fifteen Black American Composers: A Biography of Their Works
REF ML 106 .U3 T57
The New Grove Dictionary of American Music
REF ML 101 .U6 N48 1986 v.1-4
Who's Who in American Music. Classical. 2nd ed. (1985)
REF ML 106 .U3 W35
Afro-American Religious Music: A Bibliography and a Catalogue of Gospel Music
REF ML 128 .S4 J3
Biography of Gospel Song and Hymn Writers
ML 390 .H25 1971
The Complete Encyclopedia of Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950
REF ML 102 .P66 K55 v.1-4
Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
REF ML 102 .P66 C66 2003
The Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music
REF ML 102 .G6 E63 2005
Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul
REF ML 102 .P66 S8 1989
Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001
ML 102 .P66 J44 2003
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th ed.
REF ML 102 .P66 G84 2006 v.1-10
Encyclopedia of Rock
REF ML 102 .R6 H37 1988
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
REF ML102.J3 N48 1994
REF ML102.J3 N48 1988
The Oxford Companion to Jazz
REF ML 3507 .J32 2000
The Rock Who's Who
REF ML 102 .R6 H5 1996
The Virgin Directory of World Music
REF ML 3470 .S95 1992
Who's Who of Jazz: Storyville to Swing Street
REF ML 106 .U3 C5 1985