Harvard concise dictionary of music.

Randel, Don Michael:

ISBN 10: 0674374711 / ISBN 13: 9780674374713

Published by Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978

About this Item

577 S. Einband leicht berieben. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. - Biographical information is given for over 2,000 composers. It is my hope that most composers likely to be encountered in the histories of music now in general use as well as on concert programs, recordings, and radio will be found here. The amount of space devoted to each does not necessarily reflect a judgment about relative importance in the history of music; rather, I have tried in each case to give just enough facts about life and works to suggest the nature of the composers career, and this has determined the length of entries. No attempt has been made to characterize the music of any composer with a few well-chosen adjectives. In the context of extreme brevity, such adjectives are likely at best to be amusing, at worst to impede further understanding of a composers works. ISBN 0674374711 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Harvard concise dictionary of music.
• Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674374711
• ISBN 13: 9780674374713
• Binding: Originalleinen.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Musik

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Synopsis

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION

This authoritative and up-to-date reference work is the perfect music guide for home, students, teachers and professional musicians. It provides core biographical material for over 2,000 composers from the Middle Ages to the present, and it carefully defines musical forms, instruments and terms, as well as specific musical works.

About the Author

Don Michael Randel was for many years Professor of Music at Cornell University. He is now Professor of Music and President of the University of Chicago.