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Published
Oxford University Press, March 2002
ISBN
9780198662129
Format
Hardcover, 1448 pages
Dimensions
24.3cm × 20.2cm × 6cm

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The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous reference books of all time. Now in a completely new edition, this superb book contains over a million words and is the biggest, most authoritative, and most up to date single-volume music reference available. Drawing on the original Percy Scholes edition (1938) and the two volume edition by Denis Arnold (1983), this edition is fully revised and reworked for the 21st century.

8000 entries, from brief definitions to in-depth essays

over 1000 new entries

ideal for the amateur, the professional and the student

150 expert contributors

places music in its social and cultural context

includes analysis, theory, ethnomusicology and performance practice

includes jazz, popular music and dance

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