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The Oxford Companion to Music (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198662129)
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xFirst published in 1938, The Oxford Companion to Music has been the first choice for authoritative information on all aspects of music. Now, 17 years since the last edition, the Companion is here to serve a new generation of students, teachers, performers, concert goers, record collectors, and music lovers.
Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of contributors, the Oxford Companion to Music features more than 1,000 new entries than the previous edition; more than 70 percent of the entire text is either new or entirely rewritten. Here, in articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, is authoritative coverage of virtually every musical subject. Embracing the world of music in all its variety--including jazz, popular music, and dance--the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
More than 8,000 articles sweep across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed and disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions.
Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and designed throughout for clarity and accessibility, the new Oxford Companion to Music, like every edition before it, will immediately become an indispensable resource for all who wish to enrich their love and knowledge of music
Author: Alison Latham
ISBN-10: 0198662122
ISBN-13: 9780198662129
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2002
Pages: 1448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.72lbs
Size: 9.44h x 7.84w x 2.38d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2002 pg. 60
Library Journal 06/15/2002 pg. 58
Booklist 11/15/2002 pg. 621
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 257
School Library Journal 11/01/2002 pg. 102
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 508
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2002
Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of contributors, the Oxford Companion to Music features more than 1,000 new entries than the previous edition; more than 70 percent of the entire text is either new or entirely rewritten. Here, in articles that range from clear, concise definitions of musical ideas and terms to extended surveys of musical forms and styles, is authoritative coverage of virtually every musical subject. Embracing the world of music in all its variety--including jazz, popular music, and dance--the Companion offers a concentrated focus on the Western classic tradition, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
More than 8,000 articles sweep across an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed and disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions.
Comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date, and designed throughout for clarity and accessibility, the new Oxford Companion to Music, like every edition before it, will immediately become an indispensable resource for all who wish to enrich their love and knowledge of music
Author: Alison Latham
ISBN-10: 0198662122
ISBN-13: 9780198662129
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/02/2002
Pages: 1448
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 4.72lbs
Size: 9.44h x 7.84w x 2.38d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/13/2002 pg. 60
Library Journal 06/15/2002 pg. 58
Booklist 11/15/2002 pg. 621
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 257
School Library Journal 11/01/2002 pg. 102
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/2003 pg. 508
Publishers Weekly 05/16/2002
By Alison Latham
xAlison Latham is a well-known editor of music reference works. She has edited The Musical Times and for over ten years was publications editor at the Royal Opera House, Convent Garden. She was assistant editor of The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music and the co-editor of The Cambridge Guide to Music and Verdi in Performance.
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