The Harvard dictionary of music / edited by Don Michael Randel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Randel, Don Michael.

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Dictionaries.

Music.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 978 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Other Title:

Dictionary of music

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

"MAY WELL BE THE INDISPENSABLE ONE-VOLUME REFERENCE WORK ON THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC--CLASSICAL, ETHNIC, POP, OR ROCK...IF YOU MUST KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LYDIAN AND MIXOLYDIAN MODES, YOU CAN FIND THAT LUCIDLY DESCRIBED, BUT NOT TO THE EXCLUSION OF A NOTE ON THE PRACTICE AND ETYMOLOGY OF DOO-WOP." --HERBERT GLASS, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Notes:

"Fourth edition proceeds rather directly from New Harvard dictionary of music"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

0674011635

OCLC:

52623743