Comprehensive music knowledge on your own device
"MGG Online", the online database based on the German-language music encyclopaedia "Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart" (MGG), is now also available to private customers. When it was launched in November 2016, it was first offered to institutional users.
MGG Online contains more than 19,000 articles written by 3,500 authors from 55 countries (cf. MGG is also to become a database, SMZ 19.4.2014). Around 18,000 of these are biographical entries on composers, singers, instrumentalists and theorists. Many articles deal with non-Western composers, musicians and writers, including numerous personalities from jazz and popular music, as well as instrument makers, publishers, musicologists, writers, librettists and visual artists. Over 1,300 factual articles present music aesthetics and theory, eras and genres, church music and pop music, instruments and manuscripts, as well as cities and countries.
All of this content can be found in a constantly updated and growing database. Using state-of-the-art search and browse functions, the detailed work lists can be sorted according to various criteria. Other features include easy switching between article versions, customizable user accounts (where bookmarks and annotations can be created, saved and shared with others), integrated translations from German into more than 100 languages and links to the extensive RILM Abstracts of Music Literature.
The price for private customers, who can subscribe immediately, is US $ 195 (plus VAT if applicable) per year.
