Item Detail
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Morehead, Philip D.
MacNeil, Anne -
Rollman, Charlotte, drawings
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Bloomsbury dictionary of music
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Book
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London
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1992
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Bloomsbury
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xiii, 608 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm.
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English
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Spine title : Dictionary of music
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0747512558; 9780747512554
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Music--Dictionaries.
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Musical Terms; Composers; Musical Instruments; Music History
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ML 100 .M857 B56x 1992
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Morehead, Phillip D. Bloomsbury Dictionary of Music. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Limited, 1992.
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Provides quick and easy access to a wide variety of musical topics and terms. Useful as a quick reference, but not as a source of in-depth research.
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Entries include composers, librettists, musicians and music groups, conductors, famous works (operas, musicals, symphonies, suites, popular songs, etc.), instruments, terms, schools, and institutions. Includes classical music, recent and modern genres such as jazz, rock, blues, gospel, and popular music. Music history is represented from its beginnings, as well as terms from ethnomusicology. Excludes country and folk music. Otherwise, extremely extensive coverage. Bias for the Western tradition and English-speaking countries, especially with musical institutions and festivals.
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Standard dictionary format. Entries are brief, to allow for such extensive coverage in one volume. Biographical entries include dates but no birth or death places. Description of career is kept as brief as possible, usually one to three sentences. No works lists. Pronunciation information is given for some terms. Minimal numbers of charts and illustrations. A reference bibliography is included in the beginning, but no bibliographic information is given within the entries. A glossary of musical terms (relating to tempo, dynamic, expression, etc.) is included in the back, listing each term in English and giving its equivalent in Italian, French and German.
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Extensive coverage with a huge range of dates and genres.
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Leighton Thomas, A.F. The Music Review 54 (August-November 1993): 297-300.
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BYU Mus Ref
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1813