The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: 29-Volume Set, 2nd edition - Edited by The late Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell
English | Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2001 | 25,000 Pages | HTML | 197 MB (637 MB unzip)
Since its initial publication in 1980, the The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians has been widely acclaimed as an indispensable resource and a classic reference. The word "updated" doesn't begin to describe the thousands of new articles, topics, cross-references, and areas of scholarship incorporated into the new edition. Every one of the first edition's 22,500 articles has been reviewed and revised, with thousands of articles expanded.
Previously neglected or under-represented areas have been examined, explored, and explained. Movements and topics once deemed too controversial or too far from the mainstream have been added. And throughout, 6,500 new articles cover more than 5,000 years of music history, instruments, composers, institutions, performers, genres, and more.
The new edition also includes extensive, authoritative contributions on non-Western music, such as Latin American music, to less-examined contributions, such as Asian, sub-Saharan African, and Pacific Islander.
- 29,000+ articles and 6,000+ contributors from 98 countries
- 20,000+ biographies and 5,000+ photographs, diagrams, drawings, and maps
- coverage of new schools of thought within musicology, such as feminism and gay and
lesbian music
- increased coverage of jazz and popular music
- meticulously cross-referenced
- thousands of musical examples
- specially commissioned maps and line drawings