Reader's Guide to Music: History, Theory and Criticism - Hardcover

'well-written entries ... fills a niche in the literature and will be useful to graduate and undergraduate students, and general readers. Highly recommended.' CHOICE 'the work constitutes a broad perspective on musical literature, and is particularly useful in commenting on potential resources for course instructors and essay writers.' American Reference Books Annual 'The aim of this vast reference book is 'to provide some help to those who wish to explore the wealth of writing on music.' ... This book must become one of the standard references to which people desiring solid introductory knowledge may turn with confidence.' Contemporary Review

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries include not just writings on major composers in music history but also the genres in which they worked (from early chant to rock and roll) and topics important to the various disciplines of music scholarship (from aesthetics to gay/lesbian musicology).