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Viewing artciles
To view an article listed in the results pages, click on an article heading.
When viewing the text in an article, you will see your search term(s) highlighted
in red.
Tables of Contents
A table of contents for each article always appears in the frame to the
left of the article text so you can easily return to any place within
that article. Use the scroll bar to move down through the headings and
click on a heading to open that section of the article. You can also click
on the Article tab in the top grey navigation bar to return to the article
at any time.
Cross-references
Cross-references within articles are highlighted in a different colour
and appear in small capital letters. Click on the highlighted text to
navigate to the article or section to which it refers.
Illustration and figure references are highlighted in in a different
colour. Click on the highlighted text to view the image in a new window.
Note: For copyright reasons many of the illustrations in The
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians are not available on
Grove Music Online. Where they are not available, cross-references to
figures will not be highlighted.
Searching within an article
When viewing an article, select Article
Search from the grey navigation bar at the top of the article to
search for a term only within the article you are currently viewing. Search
results for the all instances of the term within the current article will
be displayed. This is particularly useful for longer articles.
Dates
Dates in Grove Music Online are listed by day/month/year.
All new articles, updates and revisions are noted by dd/mm/yyyy in the
upper right hand corner of the article page.
Illustrations
The Illustrations tab in the
top grey navigation bar allows you to view a list of images that appeared
in the print dictionaries. For copyright reasons Grove Music Online cannot
show all the illustrations which appear in print or are referenced in
the article. Click on a caption to view the image.
Links
From the article menu in the top grey navigation bar, links may be available.
To view the links, open the list and click on a caption to navigate to
that site. From this point you may explore the site further. Close the
external site to return to Grove Music Online by closing the browser window.
Sounds
Click on Sounds in the top grey
navigation bar. A list will be displayed of sound files hosted on the
Grove Music Online and external links to web pages with sound files and
Sibelius musical examples.
Abbreviations
Enter the abbreviation you wish to find in the Find
Abbrevs box in the navigation bar across the top of the screen
and then click Find Abbrevs.
Navigating an article
Use the arrows at the right-hand side of the top grey navigation bar or,
in a large article, move directly to a chosen section from the table of
contents displayed automatically in the left-hand frame.
Related articles
Choose Related Articles from
the top grey navigation bar to view the list of related articles drawn
from the Index. From the related articles view, click on an article title
to view that article. To return to the original article click on the Back
button in your browser.
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