What's New
Oxford Music Online hosts Grove Music Online and other Oxford music reference works. The site is updated three times per year, with new and updated articles, new tools for navigating content, and improved functionality. Visit this page to keep up with all the latest news and developments.
April 2013 Update
Grove Music Online
Multimedia Links
We are pleased to announce a new program that will bring new links to audio and video recordings and score facsimiles from within Grove Music Online articles, thanks to a partnership with Alexander Street Press. If you have a subscription to both Grove and Alexander Street Press’s Music Online, you can try out the new links in these articles:
Allen, Betty
Bailey, Pearl
Bayes, Nora
Bloom, Rube
Campbell, Glen
Cara, Irene
Cox, Ida
Dexter, Al
Donath, Helen
Hunter, Charlie
Hutcherson, Bobby
Mokranjac, Stevan
Morley, Thomas
Nigetti, Francesco
Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich
Wolpe, Stefan
Zender, Hans
We will continue to add links to multimedia materials with each new update. If you are a Grove author and would like to help us select links for your articles, please contact us.
New Content
With this update we note the addition of 350 new articles to Grove Music Online from the forthcoming second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music (AmeriGrove), edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett, including biographies on Mary Chapin Carpenter, Melissa Etheridge, Doris Akers, and Mignon Dunn, and subject entries on Contemporary Christian Music, the Early-music revival, and ballad opera. 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 expand the scope of Grove’s coverage, including 97 new articles on opera, 68 on popular music (post-1945), 23 on country music, 21 on popular music (pre-1945), and 15 on Hispanic/Latino music.
Click here for the complete list of AmeriGrove articles added to GMO.
We invite you to explore this AmeriGrove update through this sampling of entries added:
Opera
Addison, Adele
Caruso, Enrico
Cazan, Ken
DiDonato, Joyce
Gall-Curci, Amelita
Popular music (post-1945)
Anka, Paul
Bennett, Tony
British Invasion
Doobie Brothers
Earth, Wind & Fire
Country music
Bailes Brothers
Bowen, Jimmy
Chesney, Kenny
Popular music (pre-1945)
Austin, Gene
Broadside
Charivari
Hispanic/Latino music
Canales, Johnny
Cisneros, George
Downs, Lila
Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
Also included in this season’s update are 197 new articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, including articles on Paul Ott, the logical bassoon, the LinnDrum, and Walter Kitundu.
UpdateGMO
Three years ago, in response to feedback from scholars, we launched UpdateGMO, a major program to ensure that Grove content remains authoritative and useful to researchers. This update includes 50 articles that have been revised through this program, including entries on Emil Cossetto, Hans Zender, Affinitas, and Euclid.
Hundreds of articles have been updated through this program so far, but there is still much work to be done and we need your help. On behalf of the editorial team and Editor in Chief Deane Root, we invite you to participate by emailing the editors at updateGMO@oup.com to
- Submit updates to your articles
- Suggest corrections, revisions, or new articles
- Send us your current contact information
- Tell us what you think
Oxford Index Underbar
You now have access (or will soon have access) to the Oxford Index underbar (beta), a free tool that generates links to related content from all Oxford University Press online resources, including scholarly monographs, journal articles, and more. For example, if you’re researching “Mozart” on Oxford Music Online, the underbar will draw from a variety of Oxford resources to give you further results on that topic. Clicking the arrows located at the bottom of the browser will expand the underbar, enhancing your search experience. For more information about the Oxford Index discovery service, watch our video or go to the Oxford Index website.
Previous Updates
- The December 2012 update featured 342 new AmeriGrove articles and introduced new multimedia links.
- The September 2012 update saw the addition of nearly 200 new AmeriGrove articles and increased coverage of specific music genres including country and bluegrass, musical theater, and hip hop.
- The March 2012 update increased coverage of American choral music as well as concert music after 1950.
- The December 2011 update included a focus on Australian composers and musical instruments.
- The July 2011 update included the first installment of 88 articles from the forthcoming second edition of The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments as well as 198 new articles from the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music, and featured articles about dance, film music and Hispanic/Latino music.
- The March 2011 update spotlighted the music education, music and dance, and Hispanic/Latino music articles included in the 198 new articles added from the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music.
- The November 2010 update featured the continued content expansion of material from the second edition of 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.
