The New Oxford Companion to Music (2 Vols) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0193113163 ISBN 13: 9780193113169

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1983

Synopsis

This complete encyclopedia encompasses music of all kinds from ancient times to the present day. Written by a team of 90 expert contributors, these 6,600 articles cover composers, and individual works; musical instruments; opera; music of different countries; Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Jazz, and popular music; definitions of musical terms; rudiments and theory of music; and standard forms and genres.

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Review:

`Not simply a dictionary, but a true encyclopedia'
Gramophone

`the...appearance of The New Oxford Companion to Music is unequivocally to be welcomed, especially in the form it has taken. For all practical purposes it is a thoroughly good thing' Nicholas Spice in The London Review of Books

`as instructive, absorbing and dependable a companion as the mateur or professional musician can find between boards today' Musical Times

`two splendid volumes, which will rightly find a place in musical households for years to come' Classical Music Weekly

`I find The New Oxford Companion of enormous interest, clearly laid out, well illustrated, and quite simply a `must' for the professional and amateur musician alike.' Dame Janet Baker

`an indispensable work of reference...a thoroughly good read on subjects as diverse as education, the ear, broadcasting, hymnology, architectural acoustics, Stravinsky, Satchmo and the musical applications of colour'
Sunday Times

`an absolutely indispensable reference book and I would think no library of music books complete without it' Andre Previn

`This new Oxford Companion behaves as one expects any good friend to behave: it keeps one company and so far as I can discover it does not let one down. It is entertaining, a good bedside read and certainly does not parade its scholarship, though its writers are true experts and not
professional boilers-down of other people's learning.' Humphrey Burton

`How delightful to to find a serious musical reference book in which Charlie Parker rubs shoulders with the `Paris' Symphony, and the very next entry after `Palestrina' is `Palm court music'! This is an authoritative work on scholarly matters, but also a most companionable Companion.'
Joseph Cooper

`comprehensive'
North Star

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0193113163
• ISBN 13: 9780193113169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 1007
• Editor: Arnold Denis