Biographical Resources: Music & the Performing Arts

Authoritative and extensive biographical dictionary on musicians and musical figures in "classical" music. Entries from jazz, rock, country, blues, and other popular music genres are also included. Bibliographies and works lists are included with many entries.

Includes more than 67,000 articles on people and places; instruments and techniques; and genres and styles, including non-western and folk music. Periods covered range from ancient times to the present. The majority of the content in Oxford Music Online comes from Grove Music Online, which contains the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz.