Klarinet Archive - Posting 000429.txt from 1997/11

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: Research Sources
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 14:07:28 -0500

This question is for the active music researchers on the list. I needed to
do brief program notes for a local orchestra this week. When I tried to find
material at home on Vaclav Nelhybel, I realized how out-of-date my reference
materials here at home are. I'm using a 1971 edition (Slonimsky) of Baker's,
a 1973 printing of Harvard Dictionary (Apel), as well as a couple of Who's
Who books the latest of which is a 1980 edition. I know that I would need to
spend time in a library for major research, which I haven't been involved
with for many years. But for quick and dirty home use like these notes
(which I was doing gratis and on a close deadline), what would be my best
upgrades in research tools if I were, for example, hinting around the family
for Christmas presents?

Karl