What's New – March 2011 Update
Grove Music Online
American Music
With this update we note the addition of 198 articles to Grove Music Online from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music (AmeriGrove), edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. The first edition (1986) is widely considered the definitive reference work on the subject, and while some of the topics in this update appeared in the first edition, all are completely new to Grove Music Online and have been updated for the project.
This AmeriGrove update continues to increase Grove's coverage in music and dance, with over 100 new articles on dancers, choreographers, and musical theater dance. You will also find a number of new entries on Hispanic/Latino music, concert music of 1900–1950, and music education. There are now almost 950 articles from AmeriGrove in Grove Music Online.
We invite you to explore this AmeriGrove update through this sampling of entries added:
Music and Dance
Robert Alton
Catherine Littlefield
Musical Theater Dance
Paul Taylor
Tommy Tune
Hispanic/Latino Music
Joaquín Achúcarro
Akwid
Ramon Ayala
Banda
Ray Barretto
Music Education
F. Melius Christiansen
Jazz Education
Horatio Palmer
Philosophy of Music Education
Albert Stanley
Grove Updating Program
This major program to update articles in Grove Music Online is an ongoing priority for the Grove editorial team at Oxford University Press. This bulletin sees 30 articles updated through the Grove Updating program, including articles on Josquin des Prez, Clara Schumann, Anton Bruckner, and the traditional musics of Bolivia and Bulgaria. New print projects and targeted online-only projects provide updates to hundreds of entries each year, but with over 50,000 entries online, we believe that maintaining Grove must be a joint, ongoing effort between the scholarly community and the publisher. On behalf of Editor in Chief Deane Root, we invite you to participate by emailing the editors at updateGMO@oup.com
- Submit updates to articles
- Suggest corrections, revisions, or new articles
- Tell us what you think
The editorial team is actively reaching out to Grove contributors for corrections, updates, and suggestions for revisions, and we also flag entries that should be regularly revisited. We have over 5,000 authors to contact, and the contact information for many is out of date. If you are a previous contributor, we encourage you to get in touch. We also welcome any other suggestions or feedback from readers.
Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music: Now Available Online!
This award-winning, landmark account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent musicologists of our time is now available online for the first time.
Previous updates
- The November 2010 update featured the continued content expansion to the Grove Dictionary of American Music with a focus on 19th Century Music, Organ Music, and Scholars and Librarians.
- The June 2010 update further expanded contemporary music coverage in Grove, and introduced 200 articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music.
- The March 2010 update focused primarily on 19th-century American music, introducing 250 new articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music.
- The December 2009 update introduced 100 new articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music, including entries on conductors, composers, educators, librarians, and subjects related to band music (instrument makers, bandmasters, and organizations).
- The September 2009 update focused on contemporary composers and announced the appointment of Deane Root as Editor in Chief. [Read the press release and Dr. Root's first Letter from the Editor].
- The June 2009 update focused on new and revised articles on both operas and opera singers, drawn primarily from the Grove Book of Opera Singers.
We invite you to continue to provide us with your thoughts and comments regarding enhancements via the Contact Us form.
