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Title: The Oxford Companion to Music by Alison Latham ISBN: 0-19-866212-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reference for those who love classical music
Comment: The Oxford Companion to Music is an excellent reference work for those who love classical music. It's probably not detailed or technical enough for most professional musicians; but those enjoy listening to the endless variety and vast range of emotions of classical music (that's a plug!) will find the OCM can considerably enhance their enjoyment.
This is a big work of 1,434 pages; but the typeface, while small, is well-chosen. It's clean and clear; even these old eyes read it with no difficulty. There are extended articles on famous conductors and all the major composers plus numerous others that you never heard of. The biographies are helpful in placing a composer's works in the context of his life. Especially helpful is a well-chosen but unannotated bibliography after most of the biographies.
There are also major articles on different forms of music, types of instruments, etc. I thought I knew a lot about the sonata form, but I know more now after reading that article. There is almost no analysis of individual works; to include them would probably have doubled the size of this work. I've used a number of classical reference works over the years, but the OCM is easily the best. It's complete enough so as not to oversimplify too drastically but not so long that "you learn more about penguins that you really want to know."
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Title: The Oxford Dictionary of Music by Michael Kennedy, Joyce Bourne ISBN: 0198691629 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: The Norton/Grove Concise Encyclopedia of Music by Stanley Sadie, Alison Latham ISBN: 0393037533 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Title: The Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel ISBN: 0674011635 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel ISBN: 0674372999 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The New Harvard Dictionary of Music by Don Michael Randel ISBN: 0674615255 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 List Price(USD): $42.00 |
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