Oxford Companion to Music

The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of all time. This invaluable Companion now reappears in a completely new edition. Over a million words in length, it is the biggest, most authoritative, and most up to date single-volume music reference book available. The new edition draws on both the classic Oxford Companion to Music by Percy Scholes, first published in 1938, and the two-volume New Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Denis Arnold (1983), but is thoroughly revised and reimagined for the 21st century. Alison Latham has assembled a distinguished team of over 120 international contributors, bringing their distinctive voices to an exceptionally broad sweep of musical subjects ranging from composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, and forms and genres, to music scholarship and aesthetics, music education, broadcasting and publishing, all aspects of music theory, and performance practice, as well as jazz, popular music, and dance. Entries range from brief definitions to in-depth essays on subjects such as politics, religion, psychology, and computers. This is a comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible source of information on all aspects of Western music.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Latham, Alison (Ed.) Latham
• Assisted by: Alison Latham (Editor), Allison Latham (Editor), Latham Alison (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2002
• EAN: 9780198662129
• ISBN: 978-0-19-866212-9
• Dimensions: 195 mm x 240 mm x 60 mm
• Series: Oxford Companions; Oxford Companions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Musik : Lexikon, Nachschlagewerk, MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Reference, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, Reference works, Theory of music & musicology, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Musical Instruments, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles, Western "classical" music