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Featured Database: Grove Art and Grove Music Online
July, 2006
Grove Art Online is the most comprehensive and authoritative online resource for all research in the history of the visual arts:
- 45,000 articles
- over 2,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings, and
- extensive image links to over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world.
Grove Music Online covers the entire history of music from Bach to the Blues with:
- Access more than 50,000 articles including more than 28,000 biographies.
- Listen to more than 500 examples of different types of music.
- View 3-D interactive images of musical instruments.
- Find links to more than 3,000 music-related websites.
Access to these databases is provided to all Houston Public Library PowerCard holders through the support and generosity of the Greenberg Endowment, supporting the Library's collection in the areas of music, art, antiques, architecture, cooking, and travel. For more information on the Greenberg Endowment, call 832-393-1313 or visit http://www.houstonlibrary.org/research/greenbrg.html.
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