The Harvard Dictionary of Music
The Harvard Dictionary of Music

Author: Don Michael Randel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2003-11-28

Total Pages: 1020

ISBN-13: 9780674011632

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This classic reference work, the best one-volume music dictionary available, has been brought completely up to date in this new edition. Combining authoritative scholarship and lucid, lively prose, the Fourth Edition of The Harvard Dictionary of Music is the essential guide for musicians, students, and everyone who appreciates music. The Harvard Dictionary of Music has long been admired for its wide range as well as its reliability. This treasure trove includes entries on all the styles and forms in Western music; comprehensive articles on the music of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East; descriptions of instruments enriched by historical background; and articles that reflect today’s beat, including popular music, jazz, and rock. Throughout this Fourth Edition, existing articles have been fine-tuned and new entries added so that the dictionary fully reflects current music scholarship and recent developments in musical culture. Encyclopedia-length articles by notable experts alternate with short entries for quick reference, including definitions and identifications of works and instruments. More than 220 drawings and 250 musical examples enhance the text. This is an invaluable book that no music lover can afford to be without.

A Player's Guide to Chamber Music
A Player's Guide to Chamber Music

Author: Paul Jeffery

Publisher: The Crowood Press

Published: 2017-09-14

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0719825075

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Chamber music includes some of the world's greatest music. It is widely played in homes, without an audience, by players who are mostly amateurs, and much of the repertoire is playable even by those of quite moderate ability. A Player's Guide to Chamber Music gives advice on what music is available and helps the player to identify what is suitable. It covers chamber music from the seventeenth to the later twentieth century and all instrumental combinations including strings, piano, wind instruments, duet sonatas and baroque ensembles. All the significant composers and musical aspects of playing are covered along with works suitable for inexperienced players. Illustrated with 63 black & white illustrations.

James Galway's Music in Time
James Galway's Music in Time

Author: William Mann

Publisher: Parker Publishing Company

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13:

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Presents a chronological approach to music, featuring biographical material on the famous musicians of successive years.

The Other Classical Musics
The Other Classical Musics

Author: Michael Church

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 1843837269

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The Other Classical Musics will help both students and general readers to appreciate musical traditions mostly unfamiliar to them.

Baroque Music
Baroque Music

Author: Peter Walls

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 1351574728

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Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers approach music of the 17th and 18th centuries but, eventually, the way audiences listen to it. This volume, beginning with a 1915 Saint-Sa lecture on the performance of old music, sets out to capture musicological discussion that has actually changed the way Baroque music can sound. The articles deal with historical instruments, pitch, tuning, temperament, the nexus between technique and style, vibrato, the performance implications of musical scores, and some of the vexed questions relating to rhythmic alteration. It closes with a section on the musicological challenges to the ideology of the early music movement mounted (principally) in the 1990s. Leading writers on historical performance practice are represented. Recognizing that significant developments in historically-inspired performance have been led by instrument makers and performers, the volume also contains representative essays by key practitioners.