Baker's Dictionary of Music

Baker's Dictionary of Music

Baker's Dictionary of Music

Editorial Reviews
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It's sad but nonetheless true that Nicolas Slonimsky died in 1995, yet the 1997 Dictionary of Music is thoroughly Slonimsky. It includes all the material written for his Lectionary of Music (that was expunged by editors), and then some. After Slonimsky's death, Schirmer Book editors reconstructed his work (using original manuscripts) and added hundreds of Slonimsky articles for a new, comprehensive, mostly Slonimsky dictionary of music. The result is that most deadly of dictionaries: the text that can't be put down. From Slonimsky's highly entertaining introduction to the A to Z itself--1,171 pages of musical definitions, biographies, and Slonimsky storytelling--this is a rare volume that both instructs and amuses.

Review
Reference Books Bulletin : "Editor Kassel has produced an accessible general-purpose music encyclopedia based on the work of the late Nicolas Slonimsky. This is the only one-volume work that covers terms, works, and people from classical, popular and world music, and it should be in all libraries."
-- Reference Books Bulletin
Rettig on Reference : "...a delightfully eclectic dictionary worthy of the Baker's name ... a browser's delight even if one knows very little about music but simply enjoys good, strong writing. (A)n irresistibly inviting first choice!"
-- Rettig on Reference

Baker's Dictionary of Music

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Biography Books

Baker's Dictionary of Music

Books:

  1. Ballads from the Pubs of Ireland (Personality Songbooks)
  2. Beethoven / Moonlight Sonata No.14 Op.27, 2 (Urtext)"
  3. Beginning Ragtime Guitar: All You Need to Know to Become an Accomplished Performer of Ragtime Guitar (Guitar Books)
  4. Bizet's Carmen (Dover Opera Libretto Series)
  5. Bruckner (Master Musicians Series)
  6. Chopin: The Four Ballades (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
  7. Contemporary Class Piano
  8. Conversation with the Blues CD included
  9. Dowland, Lachrimae (1604) (Cambridge Music Handbooks)
  10. Drummer's Guide to Hip Hop, House, New Jack Swing, Hip House and Soca House

Books

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  2. Mr. Concerned's Talking Book of Home Therapy
  3. Serial Killer Cinema: An Analytical Filmography With an Introduction
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  5. Insurance in Private International Law: A European Perspective
  6. Mechanics of Turbulence of Multicomponent Gases (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
  7. Inventing the Earth: Ideas on Landscape Development Since 1740
  8. Introduction to Laser Physics (Springer Series in Optical Sciences)
  9. Midnight Blue
  10. Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future
  11. How to Make a Profit Buying & Selling Antiques & Collectibles Without Really Trying: The Almost Complete Guide to Antique Collecting
  12. Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia: The Story of a Desert Knight : The Legend of Slewih Al-Atawi and Other Utaybah Heroes (Studies in Ar)
  13. Small Wars Manual
  14. Kawarthas Nature
  15. Lonely Planet Argentina, Uruguay & Paraguay (2nd ed.)
  16. German Books: Deutsche Bücher ~ 40
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  19. Beginning ASP Databases