The Oxford Dictionary of Music

by Michael Kennedy

The Oxford Dictionary of Music is the most comprehensive & accessible music reference of its size available. Here's a wealth of concise informationon music & musicians from the Middle Ages to the present. Written to appeal to general readers as well as professionals, it's an indispensable addition to the reference shelf of the concert goer, opera buff, record buyer, radio listener, tv watcher or anyone involved in music, amateur or professional. From Abbado to Zuckerman, from Abide with Me to Zar und Zimmermann, the book's easy-to-use, alphabetically arranged entries emcompass musical topics of all kinds: composers, performing artists, orchestras, titles & descriptions of individual works (including operas & ballets), musical instruments, musical forms & terms, institutions, & writers on music. Its coverage of composers offers up-to-date lists of principal works with unparalleled nationalities. The book is a revised & enlarged edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. It adds almost 500 completely new entries & features extensive changes & revisions (including complete rewriting in many cases) of some 150 other entries. Among the 10,307 A-Z entries, readers will find:--Biographies of over 2000 composers--Extensive, accessible, up-to-date lists of composers' works--Almost 1800 entries on performers--Over 2200 definitions of musical terms--Over 550 entries on musical instruments--Abundant cross-references--Readable two-column format.
One of England's music authorities, Kennedy has been music critic of London's Daily Telegraph since 1950 & northern editor since 1960. He's written books on Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Mahler, Strauss, Barbirolli & the Halle Orchestra.

Genres: Music, Reference, Nonfiction, Art

824 pages, Hardcover

Published June 27, 1985

About the author

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for Michael Kennedy the music critic and biographer, see George Michael Sinclair Kennedy

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

It so much exceeded my expectations.

[Izzie Flynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really useful when studying music and instruments.