WIS Library: Oxford Music Online
Oxford Music Online has been the leading online resource for music research since its inception in 2001, a comprehensive compendium of music scholarship offering the full texts of:
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (2001),
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera(1992), and
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (2002)
- The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition(8 vols., 2013),
- The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition(5 vols., 2014)
It is updated often and includes numerous subsequent updates.
Oxford Music Online Includes more than 50,000 signed articles and 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world.
Sophisticated search options allow users to refine their search or browse results by source and specific era or subject category.
Oxford Music Online is particularly useful for GCSE and IB studies.
Oxford University Press has created two YouTube clips you may find interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3nTbGD-Bpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTBSTGu10Mw
Access the WIS Oxford Music Online subscription via WISDOM by clicking on the Library link.
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