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More commonly known as Grove Music Online. Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.

Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash
Publication Date: 2013
The Grove Dictionary of American Music
ISBN: 9780195314281
Publication Date: 2013
At eight volumes, it provides greatly expanded coverage, particularly in the areas of popular music, cities and regions, musical theater, opera, concert music, and music technology, as well as the musical traditions of many ethnic and cultural groups.
The Oxford Companion to Music
ISBN: 9780199579037
Publication Date: 2011
The Oxford Companion to Music is a partial revision that focuses on living composers and their music, and adds some terms, works, and cross-references to the original text.
The Oxford Companion to the American Musical
ISBN: 9780195335330
Publication Date: 2008
With more than two thousand entries, this guide offers a wealth of information on musicals, performers, composers, lyricists, producers, choreographers, and much more.
The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Publication Date: 2012
The Oxford Encyclopaedia of the Music of India
ISBN: 9780195650983
Publication Date: 2011
Indian music through 2,000 years of history. Entries cover forms of musi, as well as dance styles, technical terms, instruments, and biographies of vocalists, musicologists, saints, poets, gurus, composers, and instrumentalists.
Oxford History of Western Music
The evolution of Western classical music by one of the most prominent musicologists of our time, Richard Taruskin.
The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music
ISBN: 9781446210857
Publication Date: 2015
Accessible summary of the key aspects of popular music studies.

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