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Incorporating a decade of musicological research the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality with contributions from over 1300 of the worlds leading critics and scholars A remarkable 11000 articles all fully crossreferenced create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference Indeed every aspect of this varied art form is covered composers conductors directors performers librettists literary sources cities and countries operatic historians and opera genres and terminology Over 1800 operas are discussed from the late 16th century Florentine Camerata through the great 18th and 19th century operas to contemporary works such as the minimalist theatre pieces of Philip Glass The lives and careers of over 2900 composers are discussed in depth with entries containing critical assessments as well as discussion of their individual careers and major achievements Profiles of every singer who has made a significant contribution to opera are included from Francesco Rasi in the 1600s to Luciano Pavarotti in the 1990s Two unrivaled indices of character names and arias make it the most useful and userfriendly opera dictionary available Illustrated throughout with rare photographs reproductions of original posters set and costume designs and scenes from recent performances
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The New Grove Dictionary of American Music is the most comprehensive and enlightening history of Americas musical heritage ever published American Grove is focused solely on the unique styles and traditions of American music It covers popular musical forms such as country rock pop soul folk blues jazz bluegrass and big band It explores Americas vibrant classical heritagefrom colonial times to John Cageand also provides substantial articles on the traditional music of diverse cultures such as Native Americans Jewish Americans and Islamic Americans The Dictionary investigates the social cultural and historical forces that shaped our distinctive musical identityfrom the Civil War to the impact of pop culturethe rise of technology to the plurality of religionsfrom the supremacy of film to the evolution of the civil rights movement The New Grove Dictionary of American Music includes 3500 biographies of significant composers performers singersongwriters impresarios conductors writers producers publishers and patronsincluding foreignborn musicians who settled in America Entries on American cities as diverse as Miami New Orleans Nashville Los Angeles and Anchorage Wideranging survey articles on specialized forms of music including patriotic music film music vaudeville and early music revival Groundbreaking articles on general topics such as copyright broadcasting music therapy and education Comprehensive listings of music libraries societies institutions periodicals discographies festivals and awards
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Boasting well over 6000 contributors from 12 countries the Dictionary offers its readers authoritative and comprehensive global coverage A resource for both art and cultural studies the Dictionary serves as a unique guide to all the visual arts painting sculpture architecture photography drawing printmaking as well as the decorative arts The Dictionary ranges far both geographically and historically it features unparalleled coverage of Africa Southeast Asia Central Asia and Mongolia China India the Islamic world Japan Korea Native North America Pacific and Aboriginal Australia PreColumbian America Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece the Ancient Near East and Ancient Rome Providing depth as well as breadth The Dictionary of Art examines important art forms and key issues of design taste function and patronage illuminating them in light of the cultural context in which they developed
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Another title updated in the New Grove series in 2001 In 3 volumes and with 7750 articles The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz second edition is a resource for any serious jazz enthusiast or scholar Featuring 2750 new entries and 1500 new biographies of musicians who came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s this new edition draws on the explosion of jazz research over the past dozen years In addition Barry Kernfield and his team have completely revised and updated all entries and have made tens of thousands of corrections throughout New features include unprecedented coverage of previously underrepresented areas in world jazz such as Caribbean South African and Japanese musicians extended lists of venues worldwide a selected films and videos section and the inclusion of URLs in the bibliographies
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Incorporating a decade of musicological research the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality with contributions from over 1300 of the worlds leading critics and scholars A remarkable 11000 articles all fully crossreferenced create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference Indeed every aspect of this varied art form is covered composers conductors directors performers librettists literary sources cities and countries operatic historians and opera genres and terminology Over 1800 operas are discussed from the late 16th century Florentine Camerata through the great 18th and 19th century operas to contemporary works such as the minimalist theatre pieces of Philip Glass The lives and careers of over 2900 composers are discussed in depth with entries containing critical assessments as well as discussion of their individual careers and major achievements Profiles of every singer who has made a significant contribution to opera are included from Francesco Rasi in the 1600s to Luciano Pavarotti in the 1990s Two unrivaled indices of character names and arias make it the most useful and userfriendly opera dictionary available Illustrated throughout with rare photographs reproductions of original posters set and costume designs and scenes from recent performances
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Incorporating a decade of musicological research the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality with contributions from over 1300 of the worlds leading critics and scholars A remarkable 11000 articles all fully crossreferenced create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference Indeed every aspect of this varied art form is covered composers conductors directors performers librettists literary sources cities and countries operatic historians and opera genres and terminologyOver 1800 operas are discussed from the late 16th century Florentine Camerata through the great 18th and 19th century operas to contemporary works such as the minimalist theatre pieces of Philip GlassThe lives and careers of over 2900 composers are discussed in depth with entries containing critical assessments as well as discussion of their individual careers and major achievementsProfiles of every singer who has made a significant contribution to opera are included from Francesco Rasi in the 1600s to Luciano Pavarotti in the 1990sTwo unrivaled indices of character names and arias make it the most useful and userfriendly opera dictionary availableIllustrated throughout with rare photographs reproductions of original posters set and costume designs and scenes from recent performances
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The New Grove Dictionary of American Music is the most comprehensive and enlightening history of Americas musical heritage ever published American Grove is focused solely on the unique styles and traditions of American music It covers popular musical forms such as country rock pop soul folk blues jazz bluegrass and big band It explores Americas vibrant classical heritagefrom colonial times to John Cageand also provides substantial articles on the traditional music of diverse cultures such as Native Americans Jewish Americans and Islamic Americans The Dictionary investigates the social cultural and historical forces that shaped our distinctive musical identityfrom the Civil War to the impact of pop culturethe rise of technology to the plurality of religionsfrom the supremacy of film to the evolution of the civil rights movement The New Grove Dictionary of American Music includes 3500 biographies of significant composers performers singersongwriters impresarios conductors writers producers publishers and patronsincluding foreignborn musicians who settled in America Entries on American cities as diverse as Miami New Orleans Nashville Los Angeles and Anchorage Wideranging survey articles on specialized forms of music including patriotic music film music vaudeville and early music revival Groundbreaking articles on general topics such as copyright broadcasting music therapy and education Comprehensive listings of music libraries societies institutions periodicals discographies festivals and awards
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The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments is the definitive guide to over 12000 musical instruments from around the world It encompasses western nonwestern and developingworld cultures and includes classical folk and popular music It also covers instruments of all agesfrom the ancient water organ to the synthesizer The Dictionary describes each instrument individually and in the context of instrument families It charts the history development musical function and intercultural links of each instrument as well as its construction performance practice and technique The New Grove Dictionary also explores the cultures and societies that have created these instruments and the various nonmusical functions of certain instruments The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments includes Unprecedented coverage of Western musical instrumentsfrom early European instruments to the development of the organ and the violin and continuing into the twentieth century with computers and synthesizers 6000 articles on nonwestern developingworld and folk instruments Detailed catalogs of the worlds private and public instrument collections a survey of forgery and a study of restoration and maintenance techniques Articles on performance practice and techniquesuch as tuning ornamentation fingering and improvisation Biographies of instrument makersfrom the Greek inventor Ctesibius to the violin makers of Italy to todays manufacturing giants
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Incorporating a decade of musicological research the Dictionary is unsurpassed in its scope and quality with contributions from over 1300 of the worlds leading critics and scholars A remarkable 11000 articles all fully crossreferenced create a work that has become established as the essential opera reference Indeed every aspect of this varied art form is covered composers conductors directors performers librettists literary sources cities and countries operatic historians and opera genres and terminology Over 1800 operas are discussed from the late 16th century Florentine Camerata through the great 18th and 19th century operas to contemporary works such as the minimalist theatre pieces of Philip Glass The lives and careers of over 2900 composers are discussed in depth with entries containing critical assessments as well as discussion of their individual careers and major achievements Profiles of every singer who has made a significant contribution to opera are included from Francesco Rasi in the 1600s to Luciano Pavarotti in the 1990s Two unrivaled indices of character names and arias make it the most useful and userfriendly opera dictionary available Illustrated throughout with rare photographs reproductions of original posters set and costume designs and scenes from recent performances
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The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments is the definitive guide to over 12000 musical instruments from around the world It encompasses western nonwestern and developingworld cultures and includes classical folk and popular music It also covers instruments of all agesfrom the ancient water organ to the synthesizer The Dictionary describes each instrument individually and in the context of instrument families It charts the history development musical function and intercultural links of each instrument as well as its construction performance practice and technique The New Grove Dictionary also explores the cultures and societies that have created these instruments and the various nonmusical functions of certain instruments The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments includes Unprecedented coverage of Western musical instrumentsfrom early European instruments to the development of the organ and the violin and continuing into the twentieth century with computers and synthesizers 6000 articles on nonwestern developingworld and folk instruments Detailed catalogs of the worlds private and public instrument collections a survey of forgery and a study of restoration and maintenance techniques Articles on performance practice and techniquesuch as tuning ornamentation fingering and improvisation Biographies of instrument makersfrom the Greek inventor Ctesibius to the violin makers of Italy to todays manufacturing giants
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Throughout history women have been composing music but their achievements have usually gone unrecognized The few in earlier times who gained some renown were as often as not the sisters daughters wives or muses of wellknown menthe surnames of Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann speak for themselves Even with the presentday increase in their number women composers have largely failed to draw the attention of the public In recognition of these nearly invisible yet greatly talented musicians Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel have brought together an international corps of experts to produce The NortonGrove Dictionary of Women Composers This definitive source provides detailed biographies of more than 1000 creators of Western classical music In signed articles the Dictionary chronicles the lives and works of women composers from all corners of the world Here you can read about the Medieval mystic Hildgard von Bingen the Renaissance madrigalist Maddalena Casulana the flamboyant seventeenthcentury vocal composer Barbara Strozzi the prolific New Englander Amy Beach and the Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
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This concise dictionary has been updated Based on the 20 volume New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians it is designed to meet the needs of a wide readership from the musical novice requiring a quick and clear explanation of terminology to the musical expert in need of more detailed information There are 10000 entries which include 4500 on composers 2000 on terms instruments and institutions 1100 on performers and other key figures 1000 titles of musical works and 150 worklists for major composersOther features of this dictionary include historical accounts of important topics outlines of nonWestern music systems discussions of musical acoustics music examples and illustrationsStanley Sadie was formerly a music critic for The Times and editor of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Among the other books he has written are studies of Mozart and Handel
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One of the most controversial figures in the history of ideas as well as music Richard Wagner continues to stimulate debate whenever his works are performed Drawing upon the scholarship of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera the most comprehensive dictionary of opera in the world Barry Millington offers a concise portable survey and guide which will make a welcome addition to the shelf of anyone who loves operaMillington has completely updated the original pieces and contributed four new chapters on Wagner including a summary of Wagner productions from 1876 to the present day a suggested listening and viewing gyide complete chronology of Wagners operas and a glossary of terms that will delight any operagoer In addition there are detailed entries on each of Wagners operas a main biographical section and a group of separate articles on such topics as Leitmotif and Gesamtkunstwerk as well as a newly revised updated article on BayreuthComplete with a new preface updated bibliography glossary and discographyincluding first release dates of each recordingThe New Grove Guide to Wagner and his Operas furnishes both seasoned Wagnerlovers and neophytes with all they require for an indepth appreciation of this unique historical figure
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Stanley Sadie was music critic for The Times editor of The Musical Times and music consultant to the TV series Man and Music He edited The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians as well as its many associated dictionaries He wrote extensively on Mozart and Handel and was president of the royal Musical Association 1989 94 and the International Musicological Society 1992 97 He was appointed CBE in 1982 He died in 2005
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