The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The publication of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition will be a major event in the world of music in the year 2000. Grove is the name for music information on an international scale, instantly recognized and used constantly by music scholars and enthusiasts the world over. The New Grove II features nearly 30,000 articles containing over 25 million words on musicians, composers, musicologists, instruments, places, genres, terms, performance practice, concepts, acoustics, and more. The over 4,500 international contributors are all experts in their respective fields.