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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 780.3 EAN: 9780198614593 Edition: 2 ISBN: 0198614594 Label: Oxford University Press, USA Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1008 Publication Date: August 04, 2006 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Studio: Oxford University Press, USA Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: An indispensable guide for all music lovers and performers, both amateur and professional, The Oxford Dictionary of Music brings together an unrivalled collection of entries - 12,500 in all - covering musical subjects of all kinds in an authoritative and accessible way. Included in this impressive work are entries on composers, performers, conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, works, venues, and a host of other topics. Containing 5,000 entries on composers, most of which include up-to-date worklists, The Oxford Dictionary of Music also provides entries on conductors, performers, directors, critics, producers and designers of international repute, writers and scholars. Entries also cover individual works, including operas and ballets, orchestras and companies from around the world, famous opera houses, concert-halls, and musical festivals. Musical terms and styles, as well as forms ranging from operatic, vocal, and film scores, to song cycles, chamber, hymns, barbershop, and oratorios are covered, as are general themes such as musicology, acoustics, and absolute pitch, and historical periods such as the Byzantine era. Entries also include a wide range of musical instruments, from the familiar - strings, wind, and brass - to the less familiar - aeolian harp, bamboula and sackbut. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - excellentexcellent book. It will answer a lot of questions for you, and cause you to ask more... Rating: - Best choiceI agree with another reviewer. I chose the Oxford Dictioanry over the Harvard one, and know I made the right choice for me. It has given me the answers I wanted. Rating: - Great book if you've got the moneyI have both the Harvard Dictionary of Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. The Oxford seems to focus on bios while the Harvard on terms. Both focus more on serious music than popular music. If you are are looking for brief biographical sketches than this is a great book. The good thing about this book is they will list the more rare composers (and many of them) along with the more well known ones. There are terms listed, perhaps more than enough for you, and you may find terms which the Harvard ... Read More Rating: - Indespensible - if used as intendedI have had this book (The Dictionary) on my shelf for a number of years now (as a softcover). And before the current edition (1994), I owned the older edition. My interest is mainly 20th century serious music, and jazz. Unlike the "Oxford Companion to Music", the Dictionary covers 20th century relatively well. Many obscure composers are listed who are not listed in other books, for example Lebrecht's "Complete Companion to 20th Century Music". As such the Dictionary indispensable for me. ... Read More Rating:  - A Real DisappointmentAs a person who has taught literally thousands of students the joys of music, I'm always searching for a better music dictionary to recommend to my students and colleagues. I know I'd want a dictionary with enough diagrams to show the various music symbols and what they mean. I would want a book which also includes some biographical data as well. But here is where this book totally and I mean completely misses the mark. The vast part of the text is nothing more than a short to medium biography ... Read More 
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