The dictionary was published in 1900. How might its specific historical context and eventual public domain status influence a modern researcher's approach to using it for studying, for example, Renaissance composers?

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Title: Missa Papae Marcelli by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ← A Dictionary of Music and Musicians ( 1900 ) edited by George Grove → information about this edition related portals : Reference Works Shortcut : DMM 479756 A Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1900 George Grove Preface to Volume 1 Preface to Volume 4 Preface to Index Index to the Four Volumes List of Contributors Catalogue of the Articles by Writer List of Volumes edit Volume 1 - A to IMPROMPTU Volume 2 - IMPROPERIA to PLAIN SONG Volume 3 - PLANCHÉ to SUMER IS ICUMEN IN Volume 4 - SUMER IS ICUMEN IN to ZWISCHENSPIEL This work…

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← Agrémens A Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by George Grove Agricola, Alexander by James Robert Sterndale-Bennett Agricola, Georg → From volume 1 of the work. 1502375 A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Agricola, Alexander George Grove James Robert Sterndale-Bennett ​ AGRICOLA, Alexander , a composer of great celebrity living at the end of the 15th century and beginning of the 16th. Crespel's lament on the death of Ockenheim mentions Agricola as a fellow-pupil in the school of that master; and the dates of his published works, together with an interesting epitaph printed in a…

← Albani, Mathias A Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by George Grove Albeniz, Pedro (1755–1821) Albeniz, Pedro (1795–1855) → From volume 1 of the work. 1502398 A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — Albeniz, Pedro (1755–1821) George Grove ​ ALBENIZ, Pedro , born in Biscay about 1755, died about 1821; a Spanish monk, conductor of the music at the Cathedral of St. Sebastian, and (1795) at that of Logrono; composed masses, vespers, motetts, and other church music, never published, and a book of solfeggi (St. Sebastian, 1800).

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