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Title: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 1995
Hardcover, 1998
Hardcover, 2001
Hardcover, 2004

Synopsis
The venerable (and indispensable) dictionary, revised and updated. "Excellent coverage of the art music (Bâehague) of Colombia, as well as traditional music (Waxer/List), broken down by region, and popular music (Waxer). Illustrated with maps, photographs, and musical examples"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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Language:        English

Industry Reviews
"Imagine spending 20 years mastering the 16 million words of THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS only to learn that there are now nine million more. Twenty volumes have grown to 29 in the new edition, including an overall index. New Grove II, for short, is as deep as before, but it is wider. Major articles (Bach, Counterpoint, Musica Ficta) remain painstaking, long and full. There is an added avalanche of three- and four-inch entries dealing with the marginal and the near-irrelevant. Utz Steigleder, 16th-century Stuttgart composer; Leith Stevens, a writer of Hollywood film scores; and hundreds more like them still tantalize us on almost every two-column page....New Grove II is more ecumenical, and a bit more user-friendly [than THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS]."
(02/11/2001)
"There are many good pieces. Sadie had a sure grasp of what should be kept, what needed revision, where some new scholar would have something new to say. I have been using [the new Grove] near-daily for a year now...with increasing admiration for the achievement.....Tutto nel mondo musicale è qui..., everything one needs to know and then some. Yet we can still grumble....NG2 seems to have been rushed into print with something less than due care and attention."
(11/23/2001)


Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and it was written by Stanley Sadie (Editor). This edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is November 2000 and it has a suggested retail price of $725. There are pages in the book and it was published by Groves Dictionaries Inc. The 10 digit ISBN is 1561592633 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781561592630. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.