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Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 29 vols. London: Macmillan; Washington: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001.* Also online via the Brown Fine Arts page on the Fondren website.
OCLC. Indexes to the Established Titles, Variant Titles Obsolete Uniform Titles, and Work Numbers in the Library of Congress Name-Authority File for Works of Bach . . . et. al. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC, 1988.
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Riemann, Hugo. Musik-Lexicon. 5 vols. Mainz: B. Schott's Sohne, 1959-1972.*Smiraglia, Richard P. Cataloging Music: A Manual for Use with AACR 2. 2nd Ed. Lake Crystal, Minn.: Soldier Creek Press, 1986.
_________. _Music Cataloging: The Bibliographic Control of Printed and Recorded Music in Libraries. Englewood, Colorado: Libraries Unlimited, 1989.
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The thematic catalogues of individual composers, located in Music Reference (ML128 range), are an invaluable too for determining and assigning the proper uniform titles to titles for "hard to identify" works.
MUSIC ONLINE RESOURCES
Yale University. Types of Compositions for Use in Music Uniform Titles. http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/types.htm
Authority Tools For Audio-Visual and Music Catalogers. http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/capc/authtools.html
Indiana University. Worldwide Internet Music Resources. Music Library Association publications. http://www.musicmusiclibraryassoc.indiana.edu/music_resources/ org/?page=publications
SERIALS
Cooperative Online Serials Program (CONSER) home page. http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/
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