Oxford Music Online

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Description: Includes Grove Music Online, comprising the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002). The database contains articles on music history, music theory and practice, musical terminology, instruments and their history, and the music of various locations ranging from continents to units as small as a city. Also contains biographies of composers, performers and writers on music, as well as historic and current figures associated with the art and business of music. Extensive work lists and bibliographies conclude most articles. The site also includes access to:

• The Oxford Dictionary of Music - covering musical subjects of all kinds, with entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics. The Oxford Dictionary of Music also provides entries on conductors, performers, directors, critics, producers and designers of international repute, writers and scholars. Entries also cover individual works, including operas and ballets, orchestras and companies from around the world, famous opera houses, concert-halls, and musical festivals. Musical terms and styles, as well as forms ranging from operatic, vocal, and film scores, to song cycles, chamber, hymns, barbershop, and oratorios are covered, as are general themes such as musicology, acoustics, and absolute pitch, and historical periods such as the Byzantine era. Entries also include a wide range of musical instruments, from the familiar—strings, wind, and brass — to the less familiar — aeolian harp, bamboula and sackbut.
• The Oxford Companion to Music - contains concise definitions of musical ideas and terms, along with extended surveys of musical forms and styles. The database covers the world of music in all its variety — including jazz, popular music, and dance — and offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day. More than 8,000 articles sweep across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. From the study of music — theory, aesthetics, scholarship — to the way it is performed and disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions.

Subject(s)
Almanacs, Biographies & Encyclopedias
Music, Film & Performing Arts
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