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Each year's entry begins with a couple of paragraphs outlining historical and arts and literature highlights. Nine categories of musical events follow, among them "Births" and "Deaths" (both further subdivided into composers, conductors, singers, performers, and others); "Debuts"; "Prizes/Honors"; and "Biographical Highlights." The last category in each year, "Musical Compositions," is the largest, encompassing chamber music, choral and vocal music, orchestral and band music, ballets, symphonies, and more. A "Composition Index" and a "Historical Index" (which indexes names of people, orchestras, places, and so on) complete the set. There is no source bibliography, which would undoubtedly fill an entire volume, but the author cites the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Grove, 2001) and Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Schirmer, 2001) as "the final word" when he found conflicting data.
Hall's earlier works have a cleaner layout, but there is better organization of compositions in the new set, with narrower subdivisions in each broad category. A comparison of entries in the latest chronology with those in the author's earlier works shows that several new names have been added in the various categories for each year, and many old names have been corrected or include additional data, such as what instrument a person played. Libraries that have the other works may not be able to justify purchase of the new set, but those with comprehensive music collections or high demand for chronologies will welcome it. Another music chronology, Music since 1900 (Schirmer, 6th ed., 2001), takes a day-by-day rather than a subject approach and covers only the twentieth century. RBB
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