Grove Music Online

Nov 5, 2021
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Grove Music Online is an online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. It is an essential tool for anyone interested in researching, teaching, or just learning more about music.

Resources can be searched by topic, instrument, era, region, place type, and occupation.

The online edition includes updated versions of previous Grove publications as well as hundreds of articles commissioned specifically for the online edition. Titles include:

  • The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (29 volumes, 2001)
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (3 volumes, 2002)
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes, 1992)
  • The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1 volume, 1994)
  • The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (8 volumes, 2013; in process)
  • The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition (5 volumes, 2014; in process)

Contact query@grinnell.edu or your liaison librarian for additional help on using this resource.

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