Oxford Dictionary of Music

	Oxford Dictionary of Music
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	By Michael Kennedy 985 pages 6-1/2; x 9-1/2" Hardback Black Bound/Gold Lettering with Full Color Dust Cover Copyright 1999 Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198691629

The Oxford Dictionary of Music

The Oxford Dictionary of Music is a most indispensable guide for music research. With 12,500 entries, it covers classical music, orchestra, opera, ballet, and music forms over the centuries. This book includes extensive entries of musical works and composers. Especially helpful in composer or lyricist entries, the birthplace and year and the place of death and year are included. This dictionary is a single A-Z alphabetical listing of virtually all areas of music including:

* Individual Works - titles and descriptions of indivual works, operas, and ballets
* Composers - 5000 entries with birth and death year and place
* Directors and Critics - music producers from across the centuries
* Places - orchestras, companies, opera-houses, concert halls, and music festivals
* Musical Terms and Styles - music examples included where helpful
* Instruments - familiar to the really esoteric like sackbut and saltbox

This book has very limited information about 20th century popular music and and folk music. But for classical music, general music research, and music reference, this book is comprehensive, detailed, and accurate.