Description
Book SynopsisA classic and invaluable reference work for over 30 years. Soon after its initial publication, the Harvard Dictionary of Music was firmly established as a standard and essential resource for everyone concerned with music. The product of exceptional scholarship, it was praised as being comprehensive, concise, authoritative, scholarly, and enjoyable.
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Harvard Dictionary is better now, and remains the ideal piano-top reference for every musician, whether dilettante, serious amateur or working professional…informative and reliable…holds its place at the top of its one-volume class. * The New York Times *
Easily the best one-volume reference source of its kind. * Los Angeles Times *
[A] highly satisfying book of musical knowledge, in which basic definitions are given with fine intellectual integrity, and musical facts are carefully separated from plausible deductions or theories. * Christian Science Monitor *
Authoritative in its scholarship, comprehensive in its coverage, and commendably concise in its style…a treasurehouse of musical knowledge which should be an integral part of every music library. * Saturday Review Syndicate *
The music book of the year. * Library Journal *
