George Grove set out to create an all-encompassing encyclopedia of music.
Grove had concocted the idea for a music dictionary over a decade earlier.
Grove played a leading role in the foundation of the Royal College of Music.
J. A. Fuller Maitland, who had assisted Grove in preparing the dictionary, became editor of the second edition in five volumes, establishing the title by which it was long known, Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
An "American Supplement" was edited by Waldo Selden Pratt and Charles N. Boyd
H.C. Colles edited the third edition of Grove’s Dictionary. He later edited the fourth edition in 1940.
The charge of accounting for the new surge in knowledge about music fell to Eric Blom, a British music critic, program annotator, journalist, and translator of musical literature from Germany.
Stanley Sadie was a prominent music critic and journalist. He studied under leading British musicologists and earned a PhD in the field.
The next edition of the Grove Dictionary was so thorough that the work was retitled The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.
Stanley Sadie also developed projects to create additional, subject specific dictionaries including, in 1984, The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments in 3 volumes.
The New Grove Dictionary of American music, co-edited by musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, initiated a great expansion in American music scholarship.
Ian Bent and William Drabkin edited a series of single-volume New Grove spinoffs made up of both revised articles from the Dictionary and new material.
The first edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, edited by musicologist and saxophonist Barry Kernfeld, is published.
D. W. Krummel and Stanley Sadie co-edited Music Printing and Publishing, published under the imprint Norton/Grove Handbooks in Music.
The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie, featured 11,000 biographies, subject articles and opera synopses.
The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, edited by Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, was published by W. W. Norton & Company.
The second edition of New Grove, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell, publishes in 29 volumes.
Grove Music moves online.
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz is an essential tool for scholars, musicians and aficionados alike. The second edition published in 2002.
Oxford University Press assumed publication of the dictionary in 2003.
Deane Root, an American-music scholar and librarian with a PhD from the University of Illinois, was appointed Editor-in-Chief and established an Editorial Board, who work with an expanded staff of editors in the OUP office.
This second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music reflects the growth in scholarship the first edition initiated.
The second edition of The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, edited by Laurence Libin, is published in five volumes, with expanded coverage of non-Western instruments and electronic instruments.
Grove Music Online launches its first single-article e-books under the series title Grove Music Essentials.
Grove Music Online is preparing for a move to a new website and preparing to launch a number of new edited projects. Watch the Oxford Music Online homepage for news!
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