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Contains more than 6,000 entries written by more than 700 musicologists, considered the foremost single-volume musical reference work in print.
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Harvard University Press/The New Harvard Dictionary of Music This classic reference work contains nearly 6000 entries, authored by over 70 top musicologists. Combining authoritative scholarship with concise, lively prose and hundreds of illustrations, The New Harvard Dictionary of Music is an essential guide for all music lovers and...Definitive college text from W.W. Norton, written by Donald Jay Grout, first published in 1960. Links style and form to chronology, from ancient Greek modes to 20th century serialism and jazz.
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music A History of Western Music, 6e Since its first appearance in 1960, A History of Western Music has set the standard for all other surveys of Western art music. The Sixth Edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of recent scholarship. Its enhanced pedagogy—...Companion to the Harvard Dictionary of Music contains more than 5,000 entries on people in music, from Bach and Beethoven to Benny Goodman and Irving Berlin.
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Harvard University Press/The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music The emphasis is on classical and art music, but ample attention is given to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes--with unusual care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century. A compendium that no music lover should...This bibliography by Vincent Duckles is the standard reference for source literature in music, more than 3,500 annotated listings in sections such as encyclopedias, chronologies, discographies, and other bibliographies.
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Product Page Former head music librarian at Stanford University Ida Reed University of North Carolina 0028708210 812 pages SB 6 x 9 1/4 169; 1997 Available Now 149; TableofContents 149; Features 149; Thomson Custom Solutions 149; InfoTrac College Edition 149; First Class...Publisher pages for college textbooks on subjects such as orchestration, sight singing, and harmonic analysis.
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Links to college texts on subjects such as form, analysis, style and structure, from publisher now a division of Thomson/Wadsworth.
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Post-2000 edition by Hermine Weigel Williams of the authoritative text written in 1947 by Donald Jay Grout (d. 1987). Publishers page from Columbia University Press offers capsule reviews and detailed table of contents.
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A Short History of Opera Donald J. Grout and Hermine Weigel Williams Combines learning with a grace of expression seldom encountered in works of this kind. The subject is treated in greater detail than the word short'might indicate 151;Saturday Review (of earlier edition A Short History of Opera is perhaps one of..."The Grove" is the acknowledged ultimate authority in musical scholarship, 25,000 pages in 29 volumes, from the Oxford University Press. Capsule reviews, ordering information, link to online version.
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Oxford University Press: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: John Tyrrell What are sales promo codes? Keyword ISBN Author Title Corporate Advanced Search You are here: OUP USA Home U.S. General Catalog Music Reference The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 29 volumes with index Second Edition Edited by Stanley...Links to publisher pages for books on subjects such as blues, gospel, jazz, country, the music industry, pop music in Britain, and the origins of popular style.
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Oxford University Press: Popular Music What are sales promo codes? Keyword ISBN Author Title Corporate Advanced Search You are here: OUP USA Home U.S. General Catalog Music Popular Music Never miss an Oxford Sale! More mailing lists Popular Music For additional information and resources, please...More than 200 titles from the publisher of college textbooks and reference works, sorted by subject such as music history, theory, ethnomusicology, and church music.
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