Grove Music Online

Grove Music Online - the world's premier authority on all aspects of music

If you are in one of our libraries and wish to refer to the Grove Music Online click here.

If you are using a computer outside the library and want to access Grove Music Online click here and enter your library card number

Grove Music Online is the most comprehensive and authoritative online resource for research into all aspects of music. When it was launched, Grove Music Online was celebrated as the most “important reference publishing event of 2001” (Reference Books Bulletin) and has continued to be cited as “the best single source of musical information” (New York Times).

The multi-award winning Grove Music Online is the ultimate authority on all aspects of music worldwide – from classical to hip-hop and from baroque to blues. Updated regularly, it includes articles, biographies, 3D interactive images of instruments and links to related websites.

  • Would you prefer to refer to the books?  The multi-volume set of  Grove Dictionary of Music is available in the Reference Library located on the first floor of the new Library and Lifelong Learning Centre on Greaves Street in Oldham. Access is via the Art Gallery.