Oxford Music Online is the electronic version of Grove Music (the definitive music encyclopedia) made up of over 29,000 articles drawing on the expertise of over 6,000 international contributors.  It contains the information found in both the print New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, (2001, 30 volumes),  the print New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 1992 and the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2002.

Oxford Music Online will be updated regularly.

Access from on campus or off-campus with an APSU ID.

How to Search Oxford Music Online

To Search: type your term or musician's name in the search box that appears at the top left-hand side of each page within Oxford Music Online

To find musicians by date, genre, or nationality, use the "Explore Biographies" link.

To search for information on a particular work,  use Full Text search under Advanced Search.  

To Find Musical Examples: The musical examples in Oxford Music Online are currently limited to those demonstrating a technical aspect of music such as a cadence or double fugue.  Recordings of entire pieces are not available at this time.

To Browse: You can also browse by article heading or index entry by clicking those links on the Grove Music home page.

To use the Advanced search in Oxford Music Online, you need to understand its search modes, which include concept, pattern and Boolean.  The 

• concept mode (default) matches any words that are synonymous or  related in meaning or form; 
• pattern mode looks for words similar in spelling to those entered; and
• Boolean mode allows you to refine your search by using the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT.

Review the HELP section on Search Results in order to understand how you can use the search modes to better refine your searches.

To find out more about the different features available in  Grove Music use the context-sensitive HELP screens.