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- From: basinski@biosci.arizona.edu (Mark Basinski)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: NEW New Grove?
- Message-ID: <basinski-211292154258@lully.biosci.arizona.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:39:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.062000.7076@news.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.062000.7076@news.columbia.edu>,
- gmw1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) wrote:
- >
- > An article in the Dec. 13 Washington Post apparently intimated that there
- > might be a new edition of the New Grove before the end of the decade.
- > Not having procured a copy of the article yet (one is on its way to me),
- > I'm not sure what was said, but I'm curious if anyone knows what the
- > official word here is.
- >
- > As I understand it, the last revision took a decade. I know they've been
- > spending much time on the new Opera dictionary, so I'm wondering what might
- > be the earliest we'd see a New New Grove? Is 7 years really enough time
- > for another revision? Or was the Post being optimistic?
- >
- The Opera dictionary is in preparation, and I think I heard that the
- main work going on at the moment on the NGDMM was getting it all in
- electronic format, with an eye to a CD release perhaps?
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