What's New
Grove Music Online
June 2010 Update
Contemporary Composers
As part of the ongoing development of contemporary music coverage in Grove, this update includes the following new and revised biographies:
- Michael Finnissy
- Beat Furrer
- Klaus K. Hübler
- Bernhard Lang
- Liza Lim
- Nicholas Maw
- Olga Neuwirth
- Anthony Payne
- Enno Poppe
This update also adds 200 new articles from the forthcoming second edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music, 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 focuses primarily on music education and 19th-century music, both areas the AmeriGrove editors are committed to expanding. It also includes entries on film music, organ music, Hispanic/Latino music, and literary figures involved with American music. Two significant topical articles to highlight include Afro-Caribbean Music and Portuguese-American Music.
Music Education: Biographies
Hildegard Froelich
Mary E. Hoffman
Jere T. Humphreys
Hazel Nohavec Morgan
Robert Petzold
University of Alabama
American Orff-Schulwerk Association
Navy School of Music
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
VanderCook College of Music
19th-century Music
Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler
Otis Bardwell Boise
Andrew Carnegie
Sebastian Bach Mills
Jeannette Thurber
Frank Churchill
Bill Conti
Kenyon Hopkins
Howard Shore
Shirley Walker
Hispanic/Latino Music
"Jellybean" Benitez
Daddy Yankee
Ivy Queen
Los Tres Reyes
Reggaeton
Richard Taruskin's Oxford History of Western Music: Coming Online Summer 2010!
This award-winning, landmark account of the evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent musicologists of our time will be available online for the first time this summer. Read more at www.oxfordonline.com!
This major program to update articles in Grove Music Online is an ongoing priority for the Grove editorial team at Oxford University Press. 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.
- 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.
Two major articles that were updated recently by their original author through this program include "Exoticism" and "Orientalism."
Contribute to the updating program by emailing the editors at updateGMO@oup.com.
Tips for Oxford Music Online users
Tips for Oxford Music Online users is a new printable, reader-friendly guide containing tips about how to navigate Oxford Music Online and make the most of the content available.
Search Grove Only Preference
In response to your feedback, users can now more easily set a preference to search only within Grove Music Online content, and have that choice persist throughout their session. Just check the tick box below the search field in the top right corner of any page, perform your search, and the box will remain checked until you change it.
Previous updates
- 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 250 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.
