well, i wouldn't want to be crushed by an encyclopedia!!!! that IS a scary
thought :-)
and it wasn't composers i was researching into but interpreters. that's
where i think the dictionary is incomplete.
still, thanks again for the information. i am truly addicted to dictionaries
and i loved the idea of the free trial!
wallyK
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Asunto: RE: Monumental Music Reference! (NJC)
Hi Wally:
Are you sure you're using the search function properly? I found scads of
info on classical music and musicians. If you look under the "explore" tool
at the top of the main page, then click on "composers" and then scroll down
a bit, you will find a list containing biographies on 12,191 composers,
arranged by date from 1100 to 1900-. Your classical music interests are
there, I assure you.
<<why do you consider the grove dictionary a juggernaut? i didn't find it so
scary!>>
>From Webster's Collegiate Dictionary - "juggernaut: a massive inexorable
force that crushes whatever is in its path." I don't see that fear is an
element of the definition, necessarily. I invoke the term to aver that
there is no other comprehensive music reference collection in existence that
can compare to the New Grove Dictionary. That is to say, the Grove
dictionary crushes any current competition in terms of depth and breadth of
musical scholarship. That is a fact.
-Julius
