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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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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.
Note: There is no missing text it’s just that at the top of page 766 is the longer entry for Mendelssohn (it has a bleed on the side of the page) which splits the entry for Menuhin, Yehudi which begins on page 763.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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The Oxford Companion to Music
I purchased this book as a further means of helping to fully understand music scores. This purchase followed the acquisition of a keyboard mainly to assist in improving my ability to read & interpret music especially in my position as a bass singer in our Abbey choir. Now my aim to play the piano has become most important to me as well.
Each time I have a problem in understanding a particular element of classical music, both for the piano/organ and for choral work I find a detailed answer in any one of the vast number of specialist articles covering, seemingly, everything. It is clearly written so one can fully understand and absorb either new knowledge or `things' which one has forgotten from long ago. It has become a most valuable reference book to help me in achieving my aim to play, in a reasonable manner, straightforward piano pieces by Bach or Schubert before the end of this year.
This is as well as being a much stronger member of the Abbey Choir albeit someone of `riper years'.
I purchased this book as a further means of helping to fully understand music scores. This purchase followed the acquisition of a keyboard mainly to assist in improving my ability to read & interpret music especially in my position as a bass singer in our Abbey choir. Now my aim to play the piano has become most important to me as well.
Each time I have a problem in understanding a particular element of classical music, both for the piano/organ and for choral work I find a detailed answer in any one of the vast number of specialist articles covering, seemingly, everything. It is clearly written so one can fully understand and absorb either new knowledge or `things' which one has forgotten from long ago. It has become a most valuable reference book to help me in achieving my aim to play, in a reasonable manner, straightforward piano pieces by Bach or Schubert before the end of this year.
This is as well as being a much stronger member of the Abbey Choir albeit someone of `riper years'.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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I think this is an absolutely excellent book. I am interested in all types of music but particularly classical music. I am not a musician and have never studied the subject so this book fills in all the gaps in my knowledge, of which there are many. Perhaps some reviewers who are experts in the subject of classical western music (the introduciton to this work states it is largely limited to Western classical music as other works provide more comprehensive approaches to other world music) regard this edition of this book as a dumbing down but I have not seen the previous edition so, taking this book on it's own terms, I can highly recommend it as an extremely useful and approachable resource.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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This new edition is more scholarly but less comprehensive in scope than its predecessor. Undeniably there are some improvements. For example, many topics are covered in greater depth and detail than in previous editions. It is encouraging to see more detailed biographies of Spohr and Vanhal, to name just two composers who received unduly brief coverage at the hands of Scholes. However, there are also some significant lacunae, such as the extraordinary and indefensible omission of any reference to George Onslow (1784-1853), whose chamber music is currently undergoing a long-overdue revival (no thanks to this book). Although there are some diagrams and musical illustrations, this edition is otherwise without pictures, which makes for a far duller and less 'browseable' book than its illustrious predecessor. All in all, a rather disappointing successor to Scholes.
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