The Oxford Companion to Music |
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| Editor:
| Latham, Alison |
| Series title: | Oxford Companions Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-866212-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2002 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $101.95AUD $92.68 |
Book Description:
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The Companion offers more than 8,000 articles that cover an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed and disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions. Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of...
More DescriptionThe Companion offers more than 8,000 articles that cover an extraordinary range of subjects: composers, performers, conductors, individual works, instruments and notation, forms and genres. From the study of music--theory, aesthetics, scholarship--to the way it is performed and disseminated, the Companion provides comprehensive, accessible coverage of music in all its artistic, historical, cultural, and social dimensions. Completely revised and updated by a distinguished team of contributors, the new edition features 1,000 more entries than the previous edition; more than 70 percent of the text is either new or entirely rewritten.