Online Resources From Oxford University Press
This presentation gives a brief description of Oxford Music Online It tells you what Oxford Music Online is how it can help you how to look for information in it The presentation will take about 5 minutes
Oxford Music Online is the gateway to the multi-award winning Grove Music Online, the ultimate authority on all aspects of music – from Bach to the blues. Grove Music Online contains over 50,000 signed articles, and over 30,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars from around the world and covering music of all types, periods, and countries. Oxford Music Online now also contains the Oxford Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Companion to Music. You can restrict your search to Grove Music Online by ticking the box on the home page.
To search for a musician, a composer, a style of music, a piece of music, an instrument or a festival simply type the name into the box at the top right. stravinsky
This is the introductory paragraph to the article on Stravinsky. Use the section headings below to navigate the article. You can see a catalogue listing of a composer’s published works by clicking on the Works tab.
You can find lots of useful tools and resources via the link at the top of the page…
…for example the Opera Indexes,... …Music Timelines,…
…links to Playable Musical Examples…
…Topical Guides…and many others. The Oxford Index underbar at the bottom of the page allows you to extend your search to other related content published by Oxford University Press.
The Advanced search will help you with more complex searching, for example when you want to find a group of people born in a particular year. 1913
Practice Now you have had a brief introduction, why not explore for yourself? Have a go at finding the answers to these questions: Who wrote the opera Lakmé? Where was Sir Edward Elgar born? How many operas did Giuseppe Verdi write? What musical instrument did Joah Bates play?
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