Music

Oxford University Press is the world's largest university press. Oxford publishes 3,000 new titles a year and has a presence in more than fifty countries around the globe. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing program that includes scholarly works and reference volumes in all disciplines.

Since 1923, Oxford has also been a leading publisher of concert, educational and sacred sheet music. The Music Department develops and publishes music in Oxford, England and markets its publications throughout the world (through its distributor, Edition Peters, to US customers). The list includes music by award-winning contemporary composers; an enormous range of choral repertoire from the early Renaissance to the 21st century; operas, ballets, and other stage works; orchestral music; and solos, ensembles, and teaching materials for all instruments and for performers at every level.

Oxford's book publishing program produces a remarkably large catalog of award-winning books about music for academics, professionals, students, and the general reader. With its status as possibly the most prominent university press, Oxford is dedicated to disseminating top-level scholarly work on music. A small number of books about music and hymn books are distributed in the US by Peters Edition, although the great majority are available direct from Oxford.

Oxford is also committed to offering a broad range of audio and video illustrations through OxfordWebMusic.com, its innovative companion website program for books on music. Oxford's books on music have won hosts of awards, including the ASCAP-Deems Taylor awards, the AMS Lewis Lockwood Award, the SMT Wallace Berry Award, the SAM Irving Lowens award, and the ARSC Awards for Excellence, amongst many others.

Oxford also publishes the most respected and scholarly music journals in the world. The range of titles are Early Music, Musical Quarlerly, Music and Letters, and The Opera Quarterly.

OUP is also home to the Grove Dictionaries of Music publishing program, featuring the world-renowned New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and its web-based counterpart, Grove Music Online. At OUP, the Grove name, now a part of www.oxfordmusiconline.com, will continue to represent the highest levels of music scholarship for reference and general audiences.