Tools and Resources for Grove Music Online
Welcome to the Tools and Resources page. Here you can find a range of pathways into and through the content of Grove Music Online, as well as useful supplementary content, such as a full list of abbreviations used throughout Grove, editorially-compiled music timelines, 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 it 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
This timeline of women in music is intended to provide an overview of the breadth and depth of women’s contribution to music throughout its history. It is by no means comprehensive, but representative, and 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 less-well-known works, with the hope of introducing the reader to operas that – though perhaps less often heard – are 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 an unapologetically 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. Each begins with a link to a short overview of the period in the Oxford Companion to Music, and continues with a list of links to 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 see the development of women’s roles in composition over the last millenium.
Research Resources
Collected here are articles in Grove Music Online that consist of or include substantial lists of resources for the music researcher. Taken together, these articles form a significant research tool, which may not be evident to those not already aware of the articles. The resources listed here are of two general kinds: (1) printed and manuscript sources (2) institutions.
Guide to Musical Examples in Grove Music Online
Collected herein are links to all articles in Grove Music Online containing music examples that use the Sibelius Scorch plugin, and links direct to the Sibelius files. In addition to a complete A to Z list of all articles containing musical examples, links have also been thematically divided into examples of different musical concepts and composers.
