The Harvard biographical dictionary of music / edited by Don Michael Randel.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1996.
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x, 1013 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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    Harvard University Press reference library [More in this series]
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    A long-awaited companion to The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, and compiled with the same meticulous scholarship and delight in detail, this biographical dictionary emphasizes classical and art music, but also gives ample attention to jazz and blues, rock and pop, and hymns and showtunes across the ages - with unusual care devoted to coverage of the twentieth century. That the Belgian composer Jean Absil was professor of fugue at the Brussels Conservatory is a little-known fact. And few are aware that Roy Acuff began his country-and-western career in medicine shows. The writings of the eighteenth-century organist Jakob Adlung may be obscure, while Theodor Adorno is widely read and studied. But they can all be found in the A's, along with 218 more entries, from Carl Friedrich Abel to Emanuel Ax. And this is only the beginning. Here then is the information you need about 5,500 figures in the world of music - the major, the minor, the famous, the nearly forgotten, from Bach and Beethoven to Irving Berlin, Benny Goodman, and Bruce Springsteen - capsule summaries of the lives and careers behind the music enjoyed in every era. The volume is enlivened with illustrations, some revelations in themselves.
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    נושא ישן: Music - bio-bibliography - dictionaries.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    ISBN
    • 0674372999 ((cloth))
    • 9780674372993 ((cloth))
    • 9781849720861
    • 184972086X
    LCCN
    96016456
    OCLC
    34553491
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