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About This Book:

Title: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

Other Available Formats:
Paperback, 1995
Hardcover, 1998
Hardcover, 2000
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.

Details
Language:        English

Size
Weight:        146 Pounds
Height:         17 Inches
Width:          11.5 Inches
Thickness:    35 Inches



Publisher Notes
"Excellent coverage of the art music (BGehague) 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.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/"This reference classic has approximately doubled in size since its last publication 20 years ago, and the expansion involves more than the thorough revision and addition of articles about music of the past. More articles about 20th-century composers andcomposer-performers have been added, as well as topical articles about the gender-related, multicultural, and interdisciplinary ways that music is now being studied. Add to these changes that New Grove is also available online, making it a source that would have made its many-faceted creator Sir George Grove proud."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002.Provides brief descriptions of music genres, instruments, concert halls, and signficant moments in music history, as well as profiles of key musicians' life and works.



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)


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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), John Tyrrell (Editor). This edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is January 2001 and it has a suggested retail price of $2200. There are pages in the book and it was published by Oxford Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 1561592390 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9781561592395. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.