The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

by PaulGriffiths (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $3.34

  The New Penguin Dictionary of Music is the essential A-Z of some 1,000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Written by an award-winning music critic, and blending scholarship with personal insight and opinion, this dictionary is both a pleasurable read and an invaluable and authoritative reference book for all lovers of music, whether amateur or professional.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $8.79

  This superbly authoritative new work provides a comprehensive A to Z guide to every aspect of some 1000 years of Western music.