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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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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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