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The New Oxford Companion to Music. Volume 2. K-Z
by Edited By Denis Arnold
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- ISBN 13
- 9780193113169
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Great Britain: Oxford University Press. Very Good/Good. 1990. Reprint with Corrections and Some Revisi. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0193113163 Hardcover Hardcover. The New Oxford Companion to Music. Volume 2. K-Z. Shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Sunned spine to D/J. 6,600 articles. Two volumes, 2048 pages, 1,300,000 words. 1,300 on composers. 1,150 on individual works. 100 opera synopses. 175 on musical instruments, Western and non-Western ancient and modern. 60 on the musics of different countries and regions of the world, including Africa, America, China, India, Japan, Central and Sout-East Asia, the Middle East. Historical articles on Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century music. Coverage of popular music and jazz. 2,000 definitions of musical terms, together with articles on the rudiments and theory of music, standard forms and genres. 1,100 halftone illustrations and life drawings. 405 music examples. Illustrated. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .
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- Title
- The New Oxford Companion to Music. Volume 2. K-Z
- Author
- Edited By Denis Arnold
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Good
- Edition
- Reprint with Corrections and Some Revisi
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0193113163
- ISBN 13
- 9780193113169
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Non, Fiction, The, New, Oxford, Companion, to, Music, Volume, 2, K-Z, 0193113163
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