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This online resource would be useful in almost every research category. Containing the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz; the Oxford Companion to Music; and The Oxford Dictionary of Music.