| Reviews |
| - '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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| Description | | - 8,000 entries, ranging from brief definitions to in-depth essays
- over 1,000 new entries
- almost all entries rewritten or updated
- the classic reference book for the amateur, the professional, and the student
- over 150 expert contributors, including the top authorities in their fields
- places music in its social and cultural context, with a range of new entries on topics such as politics, religion, psychology, and computers
- up to date with current research in and approaches to music, including analysis, theory, ethnomusicology, and performance practice
- includes jazz, popular music, and dance
| 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.
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Readership: Music-lovers of all kinds, including concert-goers, those who buy and listen to classical recordings, and fans of BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM, amateur and professional musicians, teachers and students of music.
| Contents |
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Abbreviations
Oxford Companion to Music
Index of people
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Alison Latham
| Contributors:Contributors to this edition:
Peter Allsop
Helen Anderson
Martin Anderson
Richard Andrewes
Andrew Ashbee
Tim Ashley
Styra Avins
Christina Bashford
Jane Bellingham
John Borwick
Roger Bowers
Clive Brown
Ann Buckley
Bojan Bujic
Alison Bullock
Leslie Bunt
Anthony Burton
John Caldwell
Jonathan Carr
Tim Carter
Kenneth Chalmers
Rupert Christiansen
Caryl Clark
Lalage
Cochrane
Barry Cooper
Lucy Davies
Jeffrey Dean
Nicola Dibben
Jeremy Dibble
Frank Dobbins
Jonathan Dunsby
Mark Everist
Pauline Fairclough
David Fallows
Polly Fallows
Sarah Faulder
Iain Fenlon
Christopher Fifield
Lewis Foreman
Marina Frolova-Walker
Sophie Fuller
Peter Gammond
Kenneth Gloag
James Grier
Paul Griffiths
Janet Halfyard
George Hall
Kenneth Hamilton
Monika
Hennemann
Sarah Hibberd
David Hiley
Peter Holman
Crawford Howie
Alan Jefferson
Stephen Johnson
Andrew V. Jones
Timothy Rhys Jones
Michael Kennedy
Judith Kuhn
Andrew Lamb
Richard Langham Smith
Robert Layton
Alex Lingas
Dorothea Link
Fiona Little
Peter Lynan
Gerard McBurney
Hugh Macdonald
Peter Manning
Miguel Angel Marín
Thomas Mathiesen
David Milsom
John Milsom
Jeremy
Montagu
Stephen Muir
Brian Newbould
David Nice
Roger Nichols
Robert Orledge
Max Paddison
Roger Parker
Richard Partridge
Carole Pegg
Neal Peres Da Costa
Anthony Pople
Megan Prictor
Anthony Pryer
Owen Rees
Helmut Reichenbächer
Elizabeth Roche
Henry Roche
Pablo-L. Rodríguez
Ian Rumbold
Julian Rushton
Julie Anne Sadie
Stanley Sadie
Jim Samson
Robert Samuels
Adrienne
Simpson
Jan Smaczny
Basil Smallman
Mary Ann Smart
John Snelson
Piers Spencer
Gian Giacomo Stiffoni
Tom Sutcliffe
Nicholas Temperley
Adrian Thomas
Andrew Thomson
Jon Tolansky
John Wagstaff
Emma Wakelin
Jonathan Walker
Benjamin Walton
John Warrack
Christopher Webber
Bryan White
Arnold Whittall
Richard Wigmore
Charles Wilson
Christopher Wilson
Peter Wilton
David Yearsley
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