Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book by Slonimsky, Nicolas

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Scathing reviews, whimsical stories, and diverting games fill the pages of this utterly engaging kaleidoscope of skewed tales on the world of Classical music. It dishes out a marvelous feast of tales served up by a master storyteller whose reach extends around the world and to the beginnings of civilization. (view table of contents)

'Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002.Profiles of musicians, critics, publishers, recording companies, agents, composers, songwriters, and performers cover every genre from rock and popular music to operas and classical.

Significant musical events of the twentieth century are described in chronological order. (view table of contents)

'Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002.Profiles of musicians, critics, publishers, recording companies, agents, composers, songwriters, and performers cover every genre from rock and popular music to operas and classical.

'Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002.Profiles of musicians, critics, publishers, recording companies, agents, composers, songwriters, and performers cover every genre from rock and popular music to operas and classical.

'Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002.Profiles of musicians, critics, publishers, recording companies, agents, composers, songwriters, and performers cover every genre from rock and popular music to operas and classical.

'Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002.Profiles of musicians, critics, publishers, recording companies, agents, composers, songwriters, and performers cover every genre from rock and popular music to operas and classical.

'Nicolas Slonimsky's venerable single-volume reference is now a six-volume set, with better page layout and typeface, and a subject range outside its traditional concentration on classical music. Under new editorship since Slonimsky's death in 1995, coverage has expanded to over 1,000 new entries on classical music and over 2,000 new entries on jazz and popular music. Nice features include reprints of Slonimsky's witty introductions to earlier editions and indexes for genre, nationality, and women composers and musicians.'--'Outstanding Reference Sources,' American Libraries, May 2002.Profiles of musicians, critics, publishers, recording companies, agents, composers, songwriters, and performers cover every genre from rock and popular music to operas and classical.

Compiles biographical sketces of nineteen composers from Johann Sebastian Back to Shostakovich, providing information on each composer's background and commentary on their individual works.

This book is a collection of excerpts from reviews, commentary and correspondence regarding the music of forty-three composers over a 150-year span, beginning with Beethoven and ending (approximately) with Bartók, Schoenberg, Shostakovich and Stravinsky. For the most part, the commentary closely follows, in time, the premieres of the works described. (In some cases, this may be years after their original premieres. It often took, in times past, years for the works to get from "the country of origin" to the venues that were the domains of the reviewers and critics. (view table of contents)

Compiles biographical sketces of nineteen composers from Johann Sebastian Back to Shostakovich, providing information on each composer's background and commentary on their individual works.

A moderately priced, abridged version of the standard name in music dictionaries, Baker's Dictionary of Music, contains more than 12,000 succinct entries covering musical terms and concepts, musicians and their works, and instruments. Original. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Baker's Dictionary of Music is an A to Z listing of musicians, famous compositions, musical terms and instruments. Baker's Dictionary of Music covers everything from Bach to rock music. Illustrated with more than 125 photographs and drawings, including in-depth essays on musical topics and an introduction to musical terminology makes this Dictionary essential for all music libraries...read more

Profiles musicologists, critics, composers, and performers

Presents a collection of essays and selections from the works of an editor, composer, and conductor who has known musicians, and participated in musical life, throughout the twentieth century

Product Description: A reference book of scales and melodic patterns, presented in the form of piano scales and melodic studies; arranged according to the principal interval of each particular section.