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Title
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Online
Content
Full text online equivalent for The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, with the full text of Jazz Grove II beginning August 2002. world, jazz, popular and 20th-century music. History of Western music and eras, Non-Western and Traditional Music, popular music, jazz, blues, ragtime, operetta; musical Instruments and makers; performance practice; musical forms, genres, theory, terms, acoustics, notation; music of countries; music printing and publishing; social issues as they relate to music.
Use this database to answer questions like:
What are some examples of music compositions that use whole-tone scales? Do you have a list of all of JS Bach's cantatas and BWV numbers? What is the notation for a tango rhythm? What kind of guitar did Robert Johnson play? What are some examples of overtone-singing? I need some information about the history of rap music in America.
Subjects
Music, plus other subjects as they relate to music
Updated
Quarterly and annual updates
Coverage
Ancient to contemporary music