Searches Grove Music Online which includes the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition, the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, the Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, the Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition, and the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Provides access to search The Oxford Dictionary of Music and The Oxford Companion to Music.
Contains full text from major reference works, biographies and personal narratives from oral histories, manuscripts, song-sheets, lyrics, discography data, and other text sources cover jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrels, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression.
Includes reference titles Baker's Dictionary of Music, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, and Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music, biographical information on major composers and artists, score and lyric excerpts, plus musical and notational terms, photographs and images of people, instruments, and ensembles.
Full-text of the ten-volume print encyclopedia (more than 9000 pages) plus 300+ associated audio examples and musical illustrations, photographs, and drawings.
Features more than 8,000 entries covering classical, jazz, dance, and popular music; composers and musicians; musical terms and concepts; and musical forms and styles.