Dictionary of Music

Dictionary of Music
ISBN-10
0810106590
ISBN-13
9780810106598
Category
Music
Pages
465
Language
English
Published
1983-11
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Author
Theodore Karp

Description

" ... Assist[s] ... the student of music toward a better understanding of the musical heritage of the Western world. It seeks to present in compact and understandable form information regarding the history of Western music, the constitution of its more important forms, biographies of the greatest composers, and accounts of compositional techniques, performance media, and acoustic phenomena, together with brief definitions of basic terms in performance and theory ..."--Preface

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