Music (MUS)

"Is the world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship. Written and edited by nearly 9,000 subject experts, Grove’s 52,000+ articles offer clear overviews of topics from a scholarly perspective and include extensive bibliographies, which are curated to guide users through existing scholarship. Grove’s biographical articles provide life information and detailed works lists for composers, performers, and other important musical figures. Grove Music Online also features 5,000+ images, musical examples, and links to audio and video examples. It is the perfect starting point for scholarly research. Updated frequently"--Publisher's description.

"[Arguably] the best one-volume music dictionary available. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose. Includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today's beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock"--Publisher's description.

With over 10,000 entries, the Oxford Dictionary of Music (previously the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music) offers broad coverage of a wide range of musical categories spanning many eras, including composers, librettists, singers, orchestras, important ballets and operas, and musical instruments and their history.

"Explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory, and jargon"--Publisher's description.

Focuses on living composers and their music. Includes articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, with specialist coverage of virtually every musical subject.

"An outstanding guide and reference source to the key topics, subjects, thinkers, and debates in philosophy and music"--Publisher's description.

Covers voice pedagogy, voice science, vocal health, styles, genres, performers, and diction. Articles come with extensive bibliographies for further exploration. Illustrations and charts illuminate particular concepts, while appendixes address stage fright, tips on practicing, repertoire selection, audio technology, and contemporary commercial music styles.