Though Sadie is a lover of books, the publishers consider the online format more exiting and really the future of the dictionary. By the time it is published, there will already be thousands of Internet links to other music sites around the world. Though it was a daunting prospect to edit the dictionary, he couldn't turn it down. There are a great deal of small changes going on all the time in music, in its history and relationship to society, which makes you think differently about music. Attitudes are changing all the time.
Human beings change.
What the composers wrote hasn't changed, but what we feel about them has changed in the course of the 20th century. The entry on Beethoven is basically the same as the last time but with a supplementary section about how he has been viewed. After the Second World War, the heroic nature of Beethoven's music made him of supreme importance. Now we all know that Mozart is without peer in his range, especially in his operas with his humor, sexuality, the relationship between class and sex and love, passion and despair. With some composers, such as Schubert, they have had to commission completely new articles.