The Harvard brief dictionary of music / Willi Apel and Ralph T. Daniel.
TITLE:
The Harvard brief dictionary of music / Willi Apel and Ralph T. Daniel.
Publication Date:
1969, 1960
Publication Information:
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
Physical Description:
341 p. : ill.
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Summary:
A classic and invaluable reference work for over thirty years. Soon after its initial publication, the Harvard Dictionary of Music by Willi Apel was firmly established as a standard and essential resource for everyone concerned with music. The product of exceptional scholarship, it was praised as being comprehensive, concise, authoritative, scholarly, and enjoyable. Leopold Stokowski wrote, "I so often consult your dictionary of music, and with such never failing enlightenment, that I must offer you my thanks for your unique book, so profound and so broad in scope ... The vast scholarship... is of immeasurable value to the whole world of music." The Christian Science Monitor called it "a highly satisfying book of musical knowledge, in which basic definitions are given with fine intellectual integrity, and musical facts are carefully separated from plausible deductions or theories."
Language:
English
