The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music by Barrie Jones
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Overview: The English writer and publisher Hubert Foss differentiated between two kinds of reference book, contrasting ‘those ponderous and almost complete tomes which one keeps on shelves and consults in quiet mood, and the pocket manuals which, ready at lathe or in taxi-driver’s coat, offer the right amount of knowledge and understanding proper to the immediate situation’. Larger than most pockets yet kind to the purse, The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music belongs to Foss’s second category. Abridged from the acclaimed single-volume Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Music (1995), published in association with BBC ‘Music’ Magazine, and descended from the highly regarded Everyman (later New Everyman) Dictionary of Music, this new reference work draws directly on a long and distinguished line of musical expertise, in particular the accumulated scholarship of those who were involved in editing or revising its ‘family’ volumes (notably Eric Blom, Sir Jack Westrup, and David Fallows, and latterly David Cummings and Tallis Barker). However, every inherited entry has been thoroughly scrutinized, information has been updated in the light of recent research and about 100 new articles commensurate with the Dictionary’s declared purpose have been commissioned.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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