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34-539: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theory of music . Earlier editions were published under the titles A Dictionary of Music and Musicians , and Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians ;

68-521: A Master of Arts degree in 1957, and a PhD in 1958. His doctoral dissertation was on mid-eighteenth-century British chamber music . After Cambridge, he taught at Trinity College of Music , London (1957–1965). Sadie then turned to music journalism, becoming music critic for The Times (1964–1981), and contributing reviews to the Financial Times after 1981, when he had to leave his position and The Times because of his commitments to

102-482: A century earlier by the renowned German musicologist Hugo Riemann . The New Grove entry on Baldini was supported by a fictional reference in the form of an article supposedly in the Archiv für Freiburger Diözesan Geschichte . Though successfully introduced into the encyclopaedia, Baldini appeared in the first printing only: soon exposed as a hoax, the entry was removed. Seven parody entries, written by contributors to

136-420: A cornerstone of Oxford University Press's larger online research tool Oxford Music Online , which remains a subscription-based service. As well as being available to individual and educational subscribers, it is available for use at many public and university libraries worldwide, through institutional subscriptions. Grove Music Online identifies itself as the eighth edition of the overall work. The New Grove

170-618: A few weeks earlier. Sadie married twice. His first wife, Adèle Sadie (née Bloom; 1931–1978) – whom he married in 1953 in London, and with whom he had two sons and a daughter – died in 1978. Sadie married Julie Anne Sadie (née Vertrees; born 1948), also a musicologist, in 1978. They had a son and a daughter. In 1982, Sadie was appointed CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire ). He received an honorary Doctor of Letters from

204-439: A more modern style and a large number of entirely new articles. Many of the articles were written by Blom personally, or translated by him. An additional Supplementary Volume prepared by Eric Blom and completed by Denis Stevens after Blom's death in 1959, was issued in 1961. The fifth edition was reprinted in 1966, 1968, 1970, 1973, and 1975, each time with numerous corrections, updates, and other small changes. The next edition

238-495: A somewhat distinct class of reference books. While there are similarities to both dictionaries and encyclopedias, there are important distinctions as well: Compared to a dictionary, the encyclopedic dictionary offers a more complete description and a choice of entries selected to convey a range of knowledge. Compared to an encyclopedia, the encyclopedic dictionary offers ease of use, through summarized entries and in some cases more entries of separate terms; and often reduced size, and

272-403: A three-volume dictionary of musical instruments (1984), a four-volume dictionary of opera (1992)., and a volume on women composers (1994). The second edition under this title (the seventh overall) was published in 2001, in 29 volumes. It was also made available by subscription on the internet in a service called Grove Music Online. It was again edited by Stanley Sadie , and the executive editor

306-467: A total of more than 50,000 articles. The current editor-in-chief of Grove Music, the name given to the complete slate of print and online resources that encompass the Grove brand, is University of Pittsburgh professor Deane Root. He assumed the editorship in 2009. The dictionary, originally published by Macmillan , was sold in 2004 to Oxford University Press . Since 2001 Grove Music Online has served as

340-560: Is $ 195. The companion four-volume series, New Grove Dictionary of Opera , is the main reference work in English on the subject of opera. Its principal competitor is the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart ("MGG"), currently ten volumes on musical subjects and seventeen on biographies of musicians, written in German. The 2001 edition contains: Two non-existent composers have appeared in

374-537: Is now referred to as the first edition under that name. He was also an important force behind the second edition of New Grove (2001), which grew further to 29 volumes. Sadie also oversaw a major expansion of the Grove franchise, editing the one-volume Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (1988), and several spinoff dictionaries, such as the New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (three volumes, 1984),

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408-421: Is often the first source that English-speaking musicologists use when beginning research or seeking information on most musical topics. Its scope and extensive bibliographies make it exceedingly valuable to any scholar with a grasp of the English language. The print edition of The New Grove costs between $ 1,100 and $ 1,500, while an annual personal subscription to Grove Music Online as of 2 August 2022

442-475: The Grove and other scholarly work. He was editor of The Musical Times from 1967 until 1987. From 1970 Sadie was editor of what was planned to be the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980). Sadie oversaw major changes to the dictionary, which grew from nine volumes to twenty, and was published as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( New Grove ), and

476-671: The New Grove Dictionary of American Music , (with H. Wiley Hitchcock, four volumes, 1986), and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (four volumes, 1992). He also edited composer biographies based on the entries in Grove . Outside his work on the Grove dictionaries, Sadie edited the Man and Music volumes accompanying a television series (1989–1993). He was also an accomplished bassoonist. Sadie died at his home in Cossington , Somerset, 21 March 2005, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Motor Neurone disease), which had been diagnosed only

510-474: The 1980 edition, and full of musical puns and dictionary in-jokes , were published in the February 1981 issue of The Musical Times (which was also edited by Stanley Sadie at the time). These entries never appeared in the dictionary itself and are: Encyclopedic dictionary Historically, the term has been used to refer to any encyclopedic reference book (that is, one comprehensive in scope), which

544-645: The Danish organist Henry Palsmar founded an amateur choir, the Esrum-Hellerup Choir, along with several former pupils of the Song School, St. Annae Gymnasium in Copenhagen. Guglielmo Baldini was the name of a non-existent composer who was the subject of a hoax entry in the 1980 edition. Unlike Esrum-Hellerup, Baldini was not a modern creation: his name and biography were in fact created almost

578-600: The German Conversations-Lexikon (1796–1808) was just 2,762 pages in six volumes, and while that work was later expanded, its format using numerous, less lengthy entries served as the principal model for many 19th-century encyclopedias and encyclopedic dictionaries. The principal English-language encyclopaedic dictionary of the nineteenth century was the seven-volume in 14 eponymous work by Robert Hunter (1823–1897), published by Cassell in 1879–88, and reprinted many times up to 1910, including (1895) as

612-454: The fourth volume. An Index edited by Mrs. E. Wodehouse was issued as a separate volume in 1890. In 1900, minor corrections were made to the plates and the entire series was reissued in four volumes, with the index added to volume 4. The original edition and the reprint are now freely available online. Grove limited the chronological span of his work to begin at 1450 while continuing up to his time. The second edition ( Grove II ), in five volumes,

646-410: The hardback set sold for about $ 2,300. A paperback edition was reprinted in 1995 which sold for $ 500. Some sections of The New Grove were also issued as small sets and individual books on particular topics. These typically were enhanced with expanded and updated material and included individual and grouped composer biographies, a four-volume dictionary of American music (1984; revised 2013, 8 vols.),

680-546: The mass-circulation Lloyd's Encyclopaedic Dictionary . Hunter was assisted by zoology author Henry Scherren and a small team of domestic assistants at his house in Loughton. In the US, the dictionary was reissued with a variety of titles. Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie CBE ( / ˈ s eɪ d i / ; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was an influential and prolific British musicologist , music critic, and editor. He

714-417: The omission of sections of Igor Stravinsky 's worklist and Richard Wagner 's bibliography. Publication of the second edition of The New Grove was accompanied by a Web-based version, Grove Music Online . It too, attracted some initial criticism, for example for the way in which images were not incorporated into the text but kept separate. The complete text of The New Grove is available to subscribers to

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748-511: The online service Grove Music Online . Grove Music Online includes a large number of revisions and additions of new articles. In addition to the 29 volumes of The New Grove second edition, Grove Music Online incorporates the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of Opera (ed. Stanley Sadie , 1992) and the three-volume New Grove Dictionary of Jazz , second edition (ed. Barry Kernfeld , 2002), The Grove Dictionary of American Music and The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments , comprising

782-666: The organization of the encyclopedic dictionary to create the early major encyclopedias, the French Encyclopédie and later the British Encyclopædia Britannica . The flourish of encyclopedic dictionaries was mainly because of the pioneering Estienne family in France. However, such comprehensive works were costly and difficult to produce, and to keep current; and the detailed entries were not ideal for some reference uses. The first version of

816-410: The publisher's selection of a title. The encyclopedic dictionary evolved from the dictionary. John Harris subtitled his landmark Lexicon Technicum a "universal English dictionary of Arts and Sciences"; it was the first English-language, alphabetically ordered collection of knowledge. The 18th-century encyclopedists, in turn, dramatically expanded the depth and, in some cases, substantially revised

850-475: The reduced publishing and purchase cost that implies. The question of how to structure the entries, and how much information to include, are among the core issues in organizing reference books. As different approaches are better suited to different uses or users, all three approaches have been in wide use since the end of the 18th century. The title of the volume may not be a good indication of which type of reference it is, as commercial concerns may have affected

884-459: The work has gone through several editions since the 19th century and is widely used. In recent years it has been made available as an electronic resource called Grove Music Online , which is now an important part of Oxford Music Online . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians was first published in London by Macmillan and Co. in four volumes (1879, 1880, 1883, 1889) edited by George Grove with an Appendix edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland in

918-429: The work: Dag Henrik Esrum-Hellerup was the subject of a hoax entry in the 1980 New Grove . Esrum-Hellerup's surname derives from a Danish village and a suburb of Copenhagen. The writer of the entry was Robert Layton . Though successfully introduced into the encyclopaedia, Esrum-Hellerup appeared in the first printing only: soon exposed as a hoax, the entry was removed and the space filled with an illustration. In 1983,

952-549: Was John Tyrrell . It was originally to be released on CD-ROM as well, but this plan was dropped. As Sadie writes in the preface, "The biggest single expansion in the present edition has been in the coverage of 20th-century composers". This edition was subjected to negative criticism (e.g. in Private Eye ) owing to the significant number of typographical and factual errors that it contained. Two volumes were re-issued in corrected versions after production errors originally caused

986-422: Was an extensive revision of the 2nd edition; it was edited by H. C. Colles and published in 1927. The 3rd edition was reprinted several times. An American Supplement was published in the U.S. in 1927, and also later reprinted separately. An extra-large Supplementary Volume also edited by Colles was published in 1940 and called the fourth edition ( Grove IV ). A reprint of the 3rd edition with some corrections,

1020-649: Was edited by Fuller Maitland and published from 1904 to 1910, this time as Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians . The individual volumes of the second edition were reprinted many times. An American Supplement edited by Waldo Selden Pratt and Charles N. Boyd was published in 1920 in Philadelphia by Theodore Presser . This edition removed the first edition's beginning date of 1450, though important earlier composers and theorists are still missing from this edition. These volumes are also now freely available online. The third edition ( Grove III ), also in five volumes,

1054-693: Was editor of the sixth edition of the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980), which was published as the first edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . Along with Thurston Dart , Nigel Fortune and Oliver Neighbour he was one of Britain's leading musicologists of the post- World War II generation. Born in Wembley , Sadie was educated at St Paul's School, London , and studied music privately for three years with Bernard Stevens . At Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge he read music under Thurston Dart . Sadie earned Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees in 1953,

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1088-420: Was organized alphabetically, as with the familiar dictionary (the term dictionary preceded encyclopedia in common usage by about two centuries). To convey their alphabetic method of organization and to contrast that method with other systems for classifying knowledge, many early encyclopedias were titled or sub-titled "a dictionary of arts and sciences" or something similar. However, it later developed into

1122-405: Was published in 1980 under the name The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and was greatly expanded to 20 volumes with 22,500 articles and 16,500 biographies. Its senior editor was Stanley Sadie with Nigel Fortune also serving as one of the main editors for the publication. It was reprinted with minor corrections each subsequent year until 1995, except 1982 and 1983. In the mid-1990s,

1156-554: Was released at the same time. The five-volume 3rd edition, with the Supplementary Volume as volume 6, and the American Supplement of the 3rd edition as volume 7, were reprinted together as a set in 1945. The fifth edition ( Grove V ), in nine volumes, was edited by Eric Blom and published in 1954. This was the most thoroughgoing revision of the work since its inception, with many articles rewritten in

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