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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. (Book Reviews).
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2d ed. Edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan; New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 2001. [29 vols. ISBN 1-56159-239-0. $4,580.]
The encyclopedic articulation of a world presupposes, in a way that the art of the summa does not, a plurality of dichotomies and discourses. Oppositions concerning the nature of meaningfulness, understanding, and knowledge itself are at its core. What is knowledge? And what determines its relationship to information? Is it represented best as a closed inventory--d'Alembert's "engine of ordered learning"; or as an open-ended arbitration--Diderot's "living school for ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London April 24, 1994 700+ words
...published the first part of our competition to win the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, the world's most authoritative guide to classical music. The New Grove's 20 volumes usually cost pounds 1,400 (including...
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- Newspaper article from: Online Libraries & Microcomputers May 1, 2000 700+ words
In 1980, 'The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians' became a standard in definitive scholarship in terms of accuracy, scope and scholarship. The New Grove II is scheduled for release in November 2000 and will be available...
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The New Grove Dictionary of Opera has become the first commercial music encyclopedia to...undergo continual revision. The long-awaited second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music, scheduled for publication in fall 2000, 'will represent...
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- Magazine article from: Notes Theil, Gordon September 1, 2002 700+ words
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2d ed. Edited by Barry Kernfeld. London: Macmillan...and cultural importance. The newly issued second edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is an appropriate symbol of jazz's continuing growth...