The 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.

ISBN 0198662122   Pages 1448 ISBN13 9780198662129 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 2140 Imprint Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Series title Oxford Companions Publication date 21 Mar 2002   Previous ISBN 9780193113060 Non-book description xiii, 1434 p. :   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress ML100.S37   Width (mm) 189 DEWEY 780   Spine width (mm) 59 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Abbreviations; Oxford Companion to Music; Index of people

A well-loved friend returns ... The latest incarnation is in one volume, sports a stellar contributors' list and more than matches the authority of its immediate predecessor ... probably the best one-volume music reference book going. Times Educational Supplement

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