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CHOICE Review

Brockman has created a "summary guide to important current and retrospective sources of information on music." He concentrates on works published in the last 15 years in order to supplement Vincent Duckles's Music Reference and Research Materials (3rd ed., CH, Oct '74) and Guy Marco's Information of Music (CH, Oct '75). The entries are annotated and vary in length from a sentence to one or two paragraphs. Brockman refers to the entries in Duckles and Marco, providing a frame of reference for experienced librarians. The journal annotations will be useful to collection development librarians who must justify journal selections. The only omission of note is Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) as a source for music materials. AHCI provides the unique feature of citation indexing and is available online. Brockman also provides some reference information of his own: addresses of research centers, trade associations, and other related music organizations. The book contains a general subject index and an author/title index. Useful for all music collections. -I. Frank, University of South Florida