Welcome to Grove Music Online

The ultimate authority on all aspects of music … Now for the tutorial … Comprehensive and authoritative… Over 50,000 articles on all aspects of music Broad coverage of musical styles and traditions worldwide – from Aboriginal music to the Zarathustran music of ancient Persia More than 20,000 biographies Updated regularly with new and revised articles Invaluable… Over 500 Sibelius-enabled audio examples covering styles and people Over 3,000 links to related web sites 3-D interactive images of musical instruments Detailed works list for a vast range of composers Extensive lists of additional research resources

This tutorial will show you all the search and browse options… …which can always be accessed from the navigation bar

Type a word or phrase into the quick search box and click

These are the results for ‘Verdi’ Results from the Grove Dictionary of Opera are flagged with this icon

Here’s Verdi’s entry in the Dictionary of Opera marked in burgundy If you click on Operabase …

… you can search for recordings and access lists of past and future performances

Results from the Grove Dictionary of Jazz are flagged with this icon A Quick Search for ‘trumpet’ gives 18 results

Click on a result to open the article

See the article structure here

Use the contents panel to navigate the article You can print or an article

Musical examples are embedded in the article Click on the thumbnail to view a printer-friendly version

Moving along the grey navigation bar… you can look at image links for this article Click on the link and a new window will open

Here is an image of trumpets found in the tomb of Tutankhamun

Scroll down the page for links to images on external websites

There are also interactive 3D images of musical instruments…

… like this one for the trumpet!

You can rotate the image to view the instrument from every angle

You can see the different parts, like the third valve…

… or the mouthpiece

… and you can explore the features

Select ‘Sounds’ to see web links to sound files associated with the article

You can also view all of the related articles in the Grove Dictionary of Music Simply click on the link to go straight to the relevant section

Click on ‘Links’ for a list of carefully selected external websites

Like this one from the International Trumpet Guild

You can click on ‘Article Search’ to search within the article Back to our trumpet article

If you search for ‘horn’ in the trumpet article…

…and click on one of the results…

…you will be taken straight to the relevant section, with your search terms highlighted in red

Each article has a bibliography at the end You can check abbreviations like HBSJ… …by typing them in here and pressing enter

The result is displayed over here Click here to go to the homepage

Click here to go to the Advanced Search page

A Boolean search for articles containing Texas AND “Country Music” … Read search tips and access context-sensitive help

… gives 30 results

You can choose other searches from the grey navigation bar A biography search for tenors born in Berlin …

… gives all these results!

Click ‘Works’ to search the works list Enter ‘Firebird’ to discover who wrote it and to find out more about it

Here are all the results

Click here to access special features and all the musical examples

Read interviews on specific subjects … and here to listen to them Click here for information on the musical examples …

See a list of the examples which illustrate technical features … … or those which illustrate a composer’s style Click here for all of the musical examples listed A-Z by article

Here are the musical examples listed A-Z by ‘People’ All 500+ Sibelius-enabled audio examples are listed under article headings

You can scroll down to an entry and click the + sign to see the full list

Here is a list of audio examples of Mozart’s work

Just click on the ‘go’ button… …and the musical example will open in a new window

Use these buttons to play the music and to modify the tempo and pitch You can also click on the article heading to go to the complete article

Click here to browse the articles

All the articles are listed A-Z

And click on the heading to go to the article Type in here to go directly to a place in the list

Click here to see the full A-Z index

Click on the + sign to open up a longer list

Click on the ‘go’ button to go to the article Like this one for Ludwig van Beethoven

Click here to use the new ‘Explore’ feature!

And click here to explore the 20,000 biographies included in Grove Music Online

First select ‘Composers’ … To find 20th century composers from Peru …

Then select ‘Countries’

And choose ‘Peru’ from the list

And finally select ‘1900-’

The results are listed here – click on a result to go straight to the article!

If you click on Research Resources …

… you can explore all the Research Resources included in the dictionary

Click here for an article on festivals

… or here for a list of festivals by country and city

Here you can access all kinds of information about Grove Music Online… And you can always read about new and recent updates…

The ultimate authority on all aspects of music … We hope you’ve enjoyed the tour! Explore these features and much more each time you visit Access Grove Music Online from your library or from home via ATHENS or using your library card number For further help ask your librarian