The Harvard concise dictionary of music and musicians
Don Michael Randel (Editor)
"This book, like its predecessor, the 'Harvard concise dictionary of music' (1978) is ... devoted to concert music in the Western tradition from the earliest times, but it treats many of the terms and the people in this domain in greater detail. And, unlike its predecessor, it includes entries for performers of Western concert music, jazz, and popular music. In addition, there are entries for a number of terms and instruments ... belonging to non-Western musical traditions and to Western popular music. ... Readers in search of greater detail and guidance to the larger literature on music should turn first to 'The new Harvard dictionary of music' (1986) and 'The Harvard biographical dictionary of music' (1996), on which the present book is based."--Page v
Print Book, English, 1999
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1999