The Library has recently licensed Grove Music Online.
Grove Music Online is the world’s premier online music encyclopedia, offering comprehensive coverage of music, musicians, music-making, and music scholarship.
Grove Music Online consists of 51, 000 articles written and edited by nearly 9,000 subject experts. The collection is updated frequently and is an essential tool for anyone interested in researching, teaching, or just learning more about music.
Groove Music Online offers clear overviews of topics from a scholarly perspective and include extensive bibliographies, which are curated to guide users through existing scholarship. The biographical articles provide life information and detailed works lists for composers, performers, and other important musical figures. Grove Music Online also features more than 5,000 images, musical examples, and links to audio and video clips.
The online edition includes updated versions of previous Grove publications, as well as, hundreds of articles commissioned specifically for the online version. Titles include:
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition (29 volumes, 2001)
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd edition (3 volumes, 2002)
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes, 1992)
- The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (1 volume, 1994)
- The Grove Dictionary of American Music, 2nd edition (8 volumes, 2013; in process)
- The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, 2nd edition (5 volumes, 2014; in process)
Access to Grove Music Online is available on campus and remotely to all UM staff and students holding a UM IT Account.
To access Grove Music Online:
- visit the Library website
- login via your UM IT Account (top right)
- click on Databases
- Grove Music Online is available under Reference Works and Arts + Humanities and in the Databases A-Z page.
Should you have any queries, send an email to hydi.lib@um.edu.mt.