Each entry contains brief biographical notes and excellent list of compositions, bibliographies and publication information. New Grove Dictionary of American Music. New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. This is the standard comprehensive music encyclopedia in the English language.
Entries are in the areas of music history, theory and practice, instruments and terms.
Longer biographical entries contain list of works and bibliographies. All entries are signed and contained in a 20-volume set. New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Extensive coverage of folk and ethnic instruments by scholars expert in the regions in which the instruments are located. Extensive cross-references linking articles and terms to one another make up for the lack of an index by culture or region.