New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

"Imagine spending 20 years mastering the 16 million words of THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS only to learn that there are now nine million more. Twenty volumes have grown to 29 in the new edition, including an overall index. New Grove II, for short, is as deep as before, but it is wider. Major articles (Bach, Counterpoint, Musica Ficta) remain painstaking, long and full. There is an added avalanche of three- and four-inch entries dealing with the marginal and the near-irrelevant. Utz Steigleder, 16th-century Stuttgart composer; Leith Stevens, a writer of Hollywood film scores; and hundreds more like them still tantalize us on almost every two-column page....New Grove II is more ecumenical, and a bit more user-friendly [than THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS]."Sadie, Stanley is the author of 'New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians', published 2001 under ISBN 9780195170672 and ISBN 0195170679.