Comprehensive encyclopedia of Western art music (“classical music”), with general coverage of jazz, non-Western, and folk music. Also includes the Oxford Dictionary of Music and Oxford Companion to Music.

Contains the full text of the largest and most comprehensive music encyclopedias in the English language, including the twenty-nine-volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd edition), the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and the three-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd edition).

• Grove Music Online has full-text search capabilities and subject classifications for browsing.
• Articles are written by scholars with subject expertise and include bibliographies pointing to important works of scholarship on the topic.
• Topics include musical genres and forms, musical instruments; places; organizations and institutions; musicology, theory, and criticism; and people (e.g., composers, performers, scholars, librettists, patrons, publishers, instrument makers, and others who influenced or contributed to the world of music).
• Many of the composer biographies include detailed lists of works.
• Many articles include visual examples, Sibelius-enabled musical examples (score and audio clips), and links to Web sites and audio archives.
• Annual updates include new articles and corrections to older articles.

Note: Some of the print equivalents are available in the Music & Dramatic Arts Library (e.g., Music Ref. ML 100 .N48 2001 for the twenty-nine volume New Grove). Consult HOMER, the UConn Libraries' catalog for further details.