"The New Harvard Dictionary of Music" surely sweeps the field for
its clear, succinctly detailed and almost unfailingly reliable
coverage. Originally launched by the renowned musicologist Willi
Apel in 1944, it was completely recommissioned by Don Randel in
1986 from some seventy leading scholars, and comes with 250 music
examples and over 200 line drawings of instruments, etc. in the
stoutest of cloth bindings. Indispensable.
ÝMoves¨ impressively and easily between non-Western and Western
music, integrating ancient theory and modern practice into a
genuinely, and invigoratingly, global survey. -- Christopher Wintle
"Times Literary Supplement"
An admirable book...The biographical information...is clearly and
briskly expressed. -- Stanley Sadie "Musical Times"
Surely this indispensable tool needs no introduction; the first two
editions, edited by William Apel, have served the music world only
too well. The present volume, prepared by 70 noted scholars under
Randel's capable editorship, contains mostly new entries; the scope
has been greatly expanded to include better coverage of recent
music. A work for musicians, students, musicologists, and music
lovers that belongs in most collections. -- J. Richard Belanger
"Library Journal"
The articles are accurate, well written, and carry authority.
Moreover, the larger format (577 medium-sized pages vs. 341 small
ones) permits both additional entries and fuller discussions than
the "Concise Harvard Dictionary of Music" could provide. But the
main addition is biography. -- Robert C. Marsh "Chicago Sun
Times"
The articles on topics in early music, whether a few lines or
several columns, are abundant and informative, making the book once
more an invaluable aid to students of medieval and Renaissance
music. And the much enlarged and regrouped entries on ethnic musics
gives it its other special cachet. -- Brian Newbould "Musical
Times"
This single volume Ýprovides¨ as full a range of non-biographical
information as most of us are likely to require. -- Peter Heyworth
"Observer"
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