The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

Paul Griffiths

ISBN: 9780141009254
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition

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The New Penguin Dictionary of music is the essential A to Z of some 1,000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines key topics in music history, performers and theory. Written by an award-winning music critic, and blending scholarship with personal insight and opinion, this dictionary is both a pleasurable read and an invaluable and authoritative reference book for all lovers of music, whether amateur or professional.

"The New Penguin Dictionary of Music" is the essential A-Z of some 1,000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Written by an award-winning music critic, and blending scholarship with personal insight and opinion, this dictionary is both a pleasurable read and an invaluable and authoritative reference book for all lovers of music, whether amateur or professional.

The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

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