Introduction : music and its literature / Lewis Foreman -- Institutions, societies, and broadcasting stations / Susi Woodhouse -- Music information centres ; List of music information centres / Eve O'Kelly -- The second-hand trade : dealers and auctions / Nigel Simeone -- Copyright / Ian Ledsham -- Computers and music, not forgeting CD-ROMs ; Internet and music / Melanie Groundsell -- Women in music : sources and literature / Sophie Fuller -- The early music revival : sources and literature / Roderick Swanston and Lewis Foreman -- Standard reference sources and collected editions ; Music periodicals ; Selective list of electronic journals / Ian Ledsham -- Music in newspapers and non-musical periodicals / Diana Dixon -- Theses / Jeremy Dibble -- Foreign language materials : a general overview with particular reference to publications in German / Jürgen Schaarwächter -- Musical sources in government publications in Great Britain / Lewis Foreman -- From J.S. Bach to John Dillinger : music in American government documents / Elizabeth Baur -- Composer catalogues, thematic catalogues, and bibliographies / Lewis Foreman -- Music publishing and publishers / John Wagstaff -- Performance (orchestral, opera and ballet) / Simon Wright -- New music : its publication and dissemination / Matthew Greenall -- Recordings as a research source / Lewis Foreman -- Film and its music / David Whittle -- Composer trusts as sources of information, documentation and funding ; Selected list of British composer trusts / Helen Faulkner -- The music publisher as research source ; Appendix, the Novello and Company business archive / Chris Banks -- The BBC's written archives / Jacqueline Kavanagh -- Ephemera of concert life : programmes and press cuttings / Stephen Lloyd -- Pictures and picture research / Elisabeth Agate