Tools and Resources for Grove Music Online
Welcome to the Tools and Resources page. Below you will find a variety of pathways into the content of Grove Music Online, as well as useful supplementary content including a full list of abbreviations used throughout Grove, editorially compiled music timelines and topical guides, comprehensive research resources, an index of opera roles, a 20th-century reading list, and a guide to musical examples on the site.
Grove Music Online Resources
Abbreviations
Grove Music Online uses abbreviations for general terms, locations, periodical titles, and standard reference books and series.
Essential 20th-Century Reading List
The essential 20th-century reading list highlights a number of primary sources from the era, including visionary composer tracts, collections of interviews, writings on theory and history, and influential periodicals about music. Hyperlinks take the reader to related content in Grove Music Online.
Index of Opera Roles
The index of opera roles allows users to browse major opera roles from A to Z with ease, and includes hyperlinks to the operas, composers, and singers who created the roles.
Music Timelines
These timelines have been editorially compiled to lead the reader into the content of Grove Music Online, revealing areas of the dictionary that some readers may not yet have explored. As specific content areas of Grove continue to be developed, we will be adding new and updating existing timelines.
Women in Music
The timeline of women in music is intended to provide an overview of the breadth and depth of women’s contribution to music throughout music history. It is representative rather than comprehensive, and is aimed at pointing the reader toward relevant material in Grove Music Online.
100 Operatic Premières
The timeline of 100 operatic premières is intended to introduce the reader to Grove Music Online’s articles on operatic works. This is not a comprehensive timeline of opera but a chronological overview, representing all historical styles of opera and including all the major works. The timeline also includes a number of lesser-known works, with the hope of introducing the reader to operas that, though perhaps heard less often, are nonetheless worthy of attention.
Contemporary Music
The timeline of contemporary music begins in the 1880s, with events and compositions that pointed the way forward, and ends with recent events from the 21st century. This is a selective timeline, intended to guide the reader through the wide variety of topics related to contemporary music that are covered in Grove Music Online.
Topical Guides
Periods of Music History
These topical guides are designed as overviews of the major periods of music history, with lists of Grove articles covering important people, genres, terms, and concepts related to the period.
Women Composers
This guide groups Grove Music Online’s articles on women composers into time spans of 50 to 100 years, allowing readers to trace the development of women’s roles in composition over the last millennium.
Research Resources
Collected here are articles in Grove Music Online that consist of or include substantial lists of resources for the music researcher. As a set, the articles on this page form a significant research tool for users of all types. These resources fall into two general categories: (1) printed and manuscript sources and (2) institutions.
Guide to Musical Examples in Grove Music Online
Collected here are links to all articles in Grove Music Online that feature Sibelius-enabled musical examples. The guide is a complete alphabetical listing of articles containing musical examples, and has been divided thematically into examples of different musical concepts and composers’ styles.
