Welcome to Oxford Music Online

The new home of Grove Music Online and the access point for new and forthcoming Oxford music reference subscriptions and products.

Grove Music Online: Now available!

  • Completely redesigned for improved navigation

  • Over 50,000 subject articles and biographies written by over 6,000+ contributors from 98 countries

  • New! Full text of The Oxford Companion to Music (Alison Latham, 2002)

  • New! Full text of The Oxford Dictionary of Music (Michael Kennedy, 2006)

  • Over 500 audible musical examples

  • Improved Works List display

  • Timelines and Topical Guides provide study tools for teachers and students

  • Links to Classical Music Library and Database of Recorded American Music (DRAM)

  • Links to the RILM database of Music Bibliography

  • Direct links from biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography


Find out more about Grove Music Online


Encyclopedia of Popular Music

  • 27,000+ entries provide comprehensive coverage of musicians, genres, record companies, music festivals, and songs

  • Not just Rock & Roll: comprehensive coverage of popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day

  • Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided along with complete discographies and a 5-star album rating system

Find out more about the Encyclopedia of Popular Music




What's New

We are proud to introduce Oxford Music Online.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, 2002 © Thierry Martinot/Lebrecht Music & Arts

(Karlheinz Stockhausen, 2002 © Thierry Martinot/Lebrecht Music & Arts)

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), German composer and one of the featured artists of our Contemporary Music Update.

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