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The Grove Dictionary of Art will have none of this confusion, and says flatly: " Over the centuries the word has been applied to a wide variety of winding and twining vegetal decoration in art and meandering themes in music, but it properly applies only to Islamic art ", so contradicting the definition of 1888 still found in the Oxford English Dictionary: " A species of mural or surface decoration in colour or low relief, composed in flowing lines of branches, leaves, and scroll-work fancifully intertwined.
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* How Is This Going to Continue ?, a novel by James Chapman, presents itself as the libretto to a musical work by a composer whose ( fictional ) entry in The Grove Dictionary of Music is quoted at length.
* Article " Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da ", in: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed.
* The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie ( 1992 ), 5, 448 pages, is the best, and by far the largest, general reference in the English language.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell.
" Chambers ' Dictionary mentions the contemporary usage of the term " pop art "; Grove Music Online states that the " term pop music ... seems to have been a spin-off from the terms pop art and pop culture, coined slightly earlier, and referring to a whole range of new, often American, media-culture products ".
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell.
), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 7, London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2001, pp. 761 – 796.
), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Volume 1, London: Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1997, pp. 1201 – 1221.
It has been assumed ( see The New Grove Dictionary of Opera ) that Leoncavallo left the opera more or less complete ( except for the orchestration ), but Pennacchio may have had to do more and may have " filled in the gaps " using Leoncavallo's earlier music.
The Concise Grove Dictionary of Music notes that " Paisiello was one of the most successful and influential opera composers of his time.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell.
The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( Oxford University Press ) identifies this quite clearly:
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