Dictionary of Contemporary Music


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"This book is confined to concert music in the Western tradition ... most of the coverage of jazz and popular music [is limited to general articles under those titles ... Asian and folk music are confined to general surveys, further limited to the relation these musics have to contemporary Western classical music."--Preface.










All Music Guide to Classical Music


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Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original.




Composers


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Music in Holland


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Letters from a Life


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Letters by the British composer to his friends, family, and colleagues document his life from school days to the end of World War II.