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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 6th Edition. Paperback. The New Everyman Dictionary of Music. Foxing to edge. Slight shelf wear to edge of cover. Tiny dent to front cover. Crease to corner front cover. This book has long been regarded as one of the finest and most comprehensive one-volume reference works on music. Now thoroughly revised, it provides an outstanding guide to the world of music. As well as biographical information on composers, performers and others concerned with music, the dictionary lists individual works, instruments, orchestras, and musical terms, forms, influences and styles. All musical life is here, from Ars Antiqua to Zeffirelli, Castanets to Castrati, and Kyrie eleison to Kiri Te Kanawa. Technical terms are explained with the help of music examples. In revising the dictionary David Cummings has aimed to retain and strengthen its invaluable historical elements whilst bringing it completely up to date by writing over 1500 new entries. The result is a mine of musical knowledge for students, musicians and all music lovers. 876 pp. (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, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).