Grove Music Online moves to Oxford Music Online

Grove Music Online has recently been incorporated into a new electronic reference product, Oxford Music Online. Oxford Music Online is a portal that provides access to three music reference sources: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, and The Oxford Companion to Music. All three resources can be searched at the same time, or you may choose to search only one at a time.

Grove Music Online still contains The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001) and regular updates to those publications. It includes over 50,000 articles from over 6000 contributors from all parts of the world and is the largest English-language music reference source. The migration to Oxford Music Online also includes a few changes to Grove:

Links to… Database of Recorded American Music
Links to the RILM database of Music Bibliography
Improved Works List display
Learning Tools and Resources provide study tools for teachers and students

The Oxford Dictionary of Music has “content geared toward undergraduates and general users,” while The Oxford Companion to Music, “offers more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres.”

On Oxford’s What’s New page, the authors outline several other current and forthcoming changes. Let us know if you have any difficulties accessing this new source.

RIAA reports a 36% increase in vinyl sales

A recent Miami Herald article reports on the renewed interest in vinyl by consumers.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, manufacturers’ shipments of LPs jumped more than 36 percent from 2006 to 2007 to more than 1.3 million. Shipments of CDs dropped more than 17 percent during the same period to 511 million, as they lost some ground to digital formats.

The article provides details on the increased emphasis on sales of vinyl records by online and brick-and-mortar retailers in response to consumer demands. We never stopped believing at the ML/SRA!

Another New Label Joins Naxos Music Library

Naxos has announced another new addition to the content in Naxos Music Library.

col legno

The Naxos Music Library is pleased to welcome the highly respected col legno label to its collection. col legno began in 1982 and has been devoted to new classical music, providing top-class recordings of music by today’s composers. It is now encompassing revolutionary music of past centuries and music which, in various ways, defies categorization. Thus, its scope is broad and fascinating: from Schubert Lieder recorded by the East Tyrolean band Franui to interpretations of classical music by outstanding jazz performers to plans for awarding new commissions. This is a fresh and feisty label!

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