Reviews of The Oxford Dictionary of Music 'For anyone interested in music, whether as a student, concert-goer, record collector or radio 3 listener ...it is a welcoming book - I which the author shares his enthusiasm for the obvious as well as the obscure.' THES '...a comprehensive and useful resource for accurate and concise definitions and biographical sketches.' Choice ' ...a labour of love, ...lively information about people, particularly the living, ...up-to-date and, frankly, indispensable.' The Times 'without question the most comprehensive, detailed, reliable one-volume reference work on music available in the English Language.' Music & Musicians 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. Composers and performers: 5,000 entries on composers - most with up-to-date and comprehensive worklists - conductors, and performers, with particular attention paid to contemporary musicians in all fields: John Mark Ainsley, Daniel Barenboim, Myung-Whun Chung, Placido Domingo, Evelyn Glennie, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Trevor Pinnock Directors and critics: producers and designers of international repute from across the centuries; writers and scholars; musical journals and other publications Individual works and places: titles and descriptions of individual works, opera, and ballet; specific orchestras and companies from around the world combine with entries on famous opera-houses, concert-halls, and musical festivals such as those in Aldeburgh and Edinburgh Musical terms and styles: terms such as musique concrete, chromaticism, preparation, and tutti; forms ranging from operatic, orchestral, vocal, film scores, to song-cycles, chamber, hymns, barber-shop, and oratorios; invaluable general themes, like musicology, Byzantine music, acoustics, absolute pitch; musical examples are given where helpful Instruments: from the familiar members of the orchestra - strings, wind, and brass instruments - to the less well- known and the more esoteric - aeolian harp, bagpipe, bamboula, sackbut, and saltbox.