The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments , 2nd edition, is the largest, most comprehensive reference of musical instruments of the world yet produced. Thirty years ago, the three-volume first edition of the dictionary was made with a large library of research tools. This second edition reflects the growth of the scope and methodologies of the field of organology in the last three decades. At five volumes, the second edition is greatly expanded with the help of a number of instrumental and experimental instruments. scholars whose work has shaped our understanding of musical instruments.
The dictionary compiles essential information about the most important instruments worldwide. Its core content, articles on instruments and their makers, is expanded and supported by the world over the world, with special attention to the development of organology in the thirty years since the first edition. Through the study of the history of musical instruments and their design, technologies, and functions, the field is growing in the 21st century, and to encourage further research.
The dictionary's articles are supplemented by over 600 images and 190 musical examples, an index, abbreviations lists, and list of contributors. . With well-researched, informative articles by over 1000 authors, the most important of the scholars in the field, The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments is an essential tool for students and scholars of organology, musicology, ethnomusicology and anthropology, but for performers and the general public as well.
Laurence Libin, editor-in-chief of The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (Oxford University Press) , is honorary curator of Steinway - Sons, and emeritus curator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1973-2006), where he was first incumbent of the endowed Frederick P. Rose flesh. Educated as a harpsichordist and musicologist at Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and King's College, University of London, Mr. Libin has been teaching at Columbia University and New York University, including the NYU Institute of Fine Arts, and readings Internationally. The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Museum Act (Smithsonian Institution), the International Research and Exchanges (IREX) program of the US Department of State, the National Antique and Art Dealers League, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Fund, CEC International Partners, the Likhachev Foundation, and other sources.
In addition to numerous exhibitions, Laurence Libin has produced two nationally syndicated radio series, and has published more than 150 articles, reviews, catalogs, and monographs. He was co-editor of the 2008 and 2009 Organ Yearbooks. He is a frequent consultant to private collectors, museums, and cultural institutions worldwide, and a leading spokesman for historical preservation. In 2006 the Galpin Society (UK) was awarded the Anthony Baines Memorial Prize for Organizational Services, and received the Curt Sachs Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Musical Instrument Society.
Mr. Libin is a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has been president of the Organ Historical Society, vice-president of the American Musical Instrument Society, and has served on the National Council of the American Musicological Society and on its Noah Greenberg and Howard Mayer Brown Award Committees, as a member of the Committee International Museum of Musical Instruments and Collections, and on governing boards of the American Organ Archives and OHS Press. He has been a member of the editorial board of the American Recorder Society and of the Advisory Council of Red Cedar Chamber Music (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), the Medici Archive Project (Florence, Italy), the MusicaRussia Foundation, Early Music America, the New York Flute Club, the Boston Early Music Festival, the Boston Baroque and Classical Band orchestras, the Instituto de Órganos Históricos de Oaxaca (Mexico), and grant review panels of the National Endowment for Humanities.
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