Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music

by Don Michael Randel (Editor)

THIS EDITION HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEWER EDITION This authoritative and up-to-date reference work is the perfect music guide for home, students, teachers and professional musicians. It provides core biographical material for over 2,000 composers from the Middle Ages to the present, and it carefully defines musical forms, instruments and terms, as well as specific musical works.

Genres: Reference, Music, Nonfiction

577 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1978

About the author

Don Michael Randel is a prominent American musicologist, the fifth president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a member of the editorial board of Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has previously served as the twelfth president of the University of Chicago, as Provost of Cornell University, and as Dean of Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.