Music

Access Grove Music Online and other Oxford reference resources. Find music-related information, from definitions of terms to in-depth articles on scholarly topics. Covers classical music, opera, jazz, and popular music. Includes resources for further reading.

Fully searchable and browsable collection of authoritative references, including Britannica's latest article database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year, with thousands of links to other World Wide Web sites selected by Britannica editors.

Find biographies of current and historic people throughout history. Searchable by name, occupation, nationality, place of birth, and place of death.

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography provides signed biographies of 50,000 men and women who have shaped all aspects of British history from the earliest times up to the present. It is searchable by name, full text, references, contributors, images, and may also be browsed alphabetically by name, or by themes.

Find a variety of essential reference materials, spanning the entire history of Western classical music.

Search or browse over 160 books on all aspects of African American music.

Cambridge Companions to Music include comprehensive reference information on composers, instruments or musical topics.