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MGG Online<\/span><\/h1>

Extensive Coverage of All Music Disciplines<\/span><\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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MGG Online is the preeminent digital encyclopedia for music researchers worldwide. It features the second edition of Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, a reference work that has supported music scholarship since 1949, now with regularly updated and newly written articles. Dynamic both in content and access, MGG Online has been developed by B\u00e4renreiter and J. B. Metzler in partnership with R\u00e9pertoire International de Litt\u00e9rature Musicale (RILM).<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Innovative Content
\nMore than 18,000 biographies cover composers, singers, and instrumentalists, including non-Western writers and performers, as well as figures from jazz and popular music. Instrument makers, musicologists, theorists, publishers, and visual artists are equally strongly represented, alongside philosophers and literary figures. Many articles include works list\u2014renowned for their detail and completeness\u2014and carefully curated bibliographies.<\/p>\n

Within its over 1,300 subject articles, MGG Online covers areas ranging from aesthetics and theory to periods and genres, from instruments and manuscripts to rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. Unrivaled among music encyclopedias, it also contains conceptual explorations of music and history, literature, iconography, the arts, and the humanities and natural sciences, along with comprehensive surveys of countries, cities, and institutions\u2014from opera houses to music libraries.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Continual Updates<\/h4>\n

B\u00e4renreiter and J.B. Metzler employ some of the world authorities in each area of music, as well as up-and-coming experts in emerging fields: Hundreds of articles have been or are in the process of being revised, updated, or newly written. Since its launch in November 2016, hundreds of articles have been updated or rewritten, and new articles in the areas of popular music, jazz, contemporary composers and performers, singers, new media, gender studies, the United States, and Canada have been added.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t

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Innovative Technology<\/h4>\n

Residing on RILM\u2019s platform, MGG Online features highly sophisticated search capabilities and tools of exploration. Like the content, the platform is being enhanced on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n

Current features include:<\/p>\n