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This new compact guide to the history and performance of music is both authoritative and a pleasure to use. With entries drawn and condensed from the widely acclaimed The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and its companion The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, it is a dependable reference for home and classroom and for professional and amateur musicians. This concise dictionary offers definitions of musical terms; succinct characterizations of the various forms of musical composition; entries that identify individual operas, oratorios, symphonic poems, and other works; illustrated descriptions of instruments; and capsule summaries of the lives and careers of composers, performers, and theorists. Like its distinguished parent volumes, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians provides information on all periods in music history, with particularly comprehensive coverage of the twentieth century. Clearly written and based vast expertise, The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an invaluable handbook for everyone who cares about music. Don Michael Randel is Given Foundation Professor of Musicology and Provost at Cornell University. He is the editor of The New Harvard Dictionary of Music and The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Belknap Press / Harvard University Press Reference Library
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- Author/s Randel, Don M.
- ISBN13 9780674000841
- ISBN10 0674000846
- Pages 757
- Published 1999
The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians
- Author Don M. Randel
- Publisher HARVARD
- ISBN 9780674000841
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