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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Paperback)

by Sir George Grove (Author), Stanley Sadie (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 18000 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan Reference Ltd; New ed of 6 Revised ed of edition (9 Aug 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1561591742
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561591749
  • Product Dimensions: 43.8 x 40.6 x 25.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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.,."the most ambitious and comprehensive musical dictionary and encyclopedia ever attempted...a brilliant success."--The New York Times
.,."20 volumes excellently produced, crammed with scholarship, magnificently illustrated..."--Quest


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The articles, bibliographies and work-lists in this set of 20 volumes aim to embody the best and most recent research from all over the world, including studies in areas previously little explored, such as early music, non-western music and folk-music.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the previous edition, 22 Feb 2001
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This review is from: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Hardcover)
As a music student, Grove dictionaries are an invaluable source of information, providing biographies of Musicians, information on genre and style, and dealing also with less well-known fields such as ethnomusicology and Jazz. The New Grovehardly competes with the old one. The articles on popular music are fairly worthless, and, particularly annoying if one is going to fork out for such a large volume, half of the works list adjoined to the Stravinsky article, incidentally one of the best written ones, has been omitted. Nevertheless, again as a music student, my faculty has provided the facility online, and this, ( as it is constantly updated and adjusted), unlike the hard copy, does not have the same problems. If you have the inclination and the money, I would highly recommend subscription to the New Grove online, but, unless you have a particularly large amount of money knockng around spare, I would think twice before purchasing the printed version.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome collective knowledge of Music & Musicians, 21 April 2008
By A. Kerensky "FRSA" (Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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How many people know for example that the Ukelele comes from the Hawaiian word 'Leaping flea', the Grove is a treasure trove of knowledge relating to all manner of subjects relating to music and musicians. I have the hardback 20 volume 1980 edition which i am very pleased to own, purchased via amazon's market place for £200 which i consider excellant value for money as a new set would cost approx £750. I see that Grove have added 9 further volumes to the new 2004 set and from many accounts the new volumes deal largely with pop music. As many have said previously it would be great to see a Grove CD-Rom version and given that the Grove Online subscription is approx £200 per year i think i'll stick with my trusty 20 volume paper set for now. Who buys/uses the Grove any way? People who have a passion for music, music scholars, music teachers/musicians. As a jazz musician i also highly recommend the Grove Jazz in 3 volumes 2002 2nd edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The complete reference for music research., 26 April 1998
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TNGMM is the complete reference source for music and musicians. No other scholarly collection has assembled so many outstanding reference sources into one collection of clear, concise, complete information. This work should be in every serious music scholars library, as well as any college or high school which has a serious music program.
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