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I have audio available (recorded or I can sing/play it) Musipedia (hum, enter notation, or enter pitch "contour" [i.e., up, down, repeat]) A searchable, editable, and expandable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. (Musipedia) Shazam (uses 10-second clip of song) The application can identify music, movies, advertising, and ...

I found one article that might be promising. I accessed it through the online database Academic Search Premier, through my University library. Citation: Beaster-Jones, Jayson. “A.R. Rahman and the Aesthetic Transformation of Indian Film Scores.” South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 15, no. 2/3, July 2017, pp. 155–171. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/14746689.2017....

Outside of Oxford Music, I'm not aware of any similar dedicated music encyclopedias. Wikipedia is as close as I know of, and it is generally comprehensive if not as authoritative as OM. The only other encyclopedia-like sites I've found are: https://www.dolmetsch.com/index.htm: This site appears to be for a commercial early instrument seller, but they have a ...

Jeff Healey, blind guitarist; appeared in the movie "Road House".

Missing Limbs: Rick Allen, one-armed drummer for Def Leppard Tony Melendez, Mark Goffeney - well-known independent "foot guitarists" Blind: The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Blind Boys of Mississippi - Two (very) long-running black gospel groups with blind members. Although they are/were independent, unaffiliated groups, they got their similar ...

There was Jazz pianist Michel Petrucciani, who suffered from brittle bone disease.

It's not a specialized music encyclopedia, but Wikipedia covers a very wide range of musical topics.

I recently discovered musipedia which describes itself as The Open Music Encyclopedia. I don't yet know how comprehensive it is but I have found it to be a very good look up tool at least. You don't get a lot of information but you get some links which may be useful. I have tried it mostly with classical music and, so far, I have not defeated it. I need to ...

Allowing you're still looking for an answer... There's an article on Metastasis specifically, in French, on JSTOR: Anne-Sylvie Barthel-Calvet. "MÉTASTASSIS-Analyse: Un Texte Inédit De Iannis Xenakis Sur Metastasis." Revue De Musicologie 89, no. 1 (2003): 129-87. Accessed July 11, 2020. www.jstor.org/stable/4494838. JSTOR is a good place to search. ...