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The Oxford Dictionary of Music
Revised Edition
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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
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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
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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.
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