The Oxford Dictionary of Music (Hardcover, Reissued Revised Ed)

The Oxford Dictionary of Music is the indispensable guide for all music lovers and performers, both amateur and professional. It brings together an unrivalled collection of entries - 12,500 in all - which cover musical subjects of all kinds in an authoritative and accessible way. Entries appear on composers, performers and conductors, musical terms and forms, instruments, musical works, concert halls and opera houses, and a host of other topics.

`For anyone interested in music, whether as a student, concert-goer, record collector or Radio 3 listener ... it is a welcoming book - In which the author shares his enthusiasm for the obvious as well as the obscure.' THES

`without question the most comprehensive, detailed, reliable one-volume reference work on music available in the English Language' Music & Musicians