Review: MGG Online: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart

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Book Review| August 01 2018 Review: MGG Online: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart MGG Online: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Laurenz Lütteken, Editor-in-Chief; Ilka Sührig, Editorial Director; Christiana Nobach, Editor. URL: https://www.mgg-online.com/ Andreas Janke Andreas Janke ANDREAS JANKE is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg. He is currently working on liturgical books and music manuscripts containing polyphonic settings of the Ordinarium Missae up to ca. 1430. Other interests are the music of the Trecento and the recovery of lost music in damaged manuscripts. He is the author of Die Kompositionen von Giovanni Mazzuoli, Piero Mazzuoli und Ugolino da Orvieto im San-Lorenzo-Palimpsest (ASL 2211) (Georg Olms, 2016). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2018) 71 (2): 551–560. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.551 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Andreas Janke; Review: MGG Online: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 August 2018; 71 (2): 551–560. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2018.71.2.551 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The magisterial encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart is an essential tool in musicological work. Familiar to every musicologist, it has played a fundamental role in assessing the research status of any given topic in our discipline. Its first edition (henceforth MGG1) was produced by Friedrich Blume and published in seventeen volumes between 1949 and 1986.1 Eight years after the completion of that postwar undertaking, a “new MGG” (henceforth MGG2) was initiated. Edited by Ludwig Finscher, MGG2 consists of twenty-nine volumes, published between 1994 and 2008.2 Another eight years after the completion of this second edition, the production of MGG encyclopedias as fixed, self-contained units came to a halt. The latest incarnation is thus not really considered an “MGG3” but rather an MGG Online, accessible exclusively on the web; moreover, it is a publication that is constantly being updated, while older... You do not currently have access to this content.