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The Harvard Dictionary of Music.(Book Review)
The Harvard Dictionary of Music. 4th ed. By Don Michael Randel. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. [xxvii, 978 p. ISBN 0-674-01163-5. $39.95]. Music examples, illustrations.
It is likely that most subscribers to Notes have by now purchased a copy of the Harvard Dictionary for themselves or their institution predicated on the longevity of the work and its deserved good reputation. The current edition, under the direction of Don Michael Randel, generally delivers what has come to be expected, and although there have been "numerous changes, including outright additions and deletions" (Preface), I have not found any significant gaps in coverage. The ...
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- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
9780195316902 Experimental phenomena of consciousness; a brief dictionary. Bachmann, Talis et al. Oxford U. Press 2007 125 pages $79.50 Hardcover BF311 This unique, handy compilation of terms used...
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- Magazine article from: Notes DRUESEDOW, JOHN E. March 1, 2000 700+ words
...The New Oxford Companion to Music (1983), The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (1986), and The New Country Music Encyclopedia...Harvards" had preceded The New Harvard: Willi Apel's Harvard Dictionary of Music (1944), followed after twenty-five years...
- Music teacher's library.(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Ingle, Gary L. December 1, 2002 700+ words
...Dictionary of Music, by Christine Ammer (HarperCollins, 1979) * Harvard Dictionary of Music, by Willi Apel (Belknap Press, second edition, 1969) Also: The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don Michael Randel (Belknap Press, 1986...
- Digital media review.(website evaluation)
- Magazine article from: Notes Cary, Paul June 1, 2009 700+ words
...authoritative, scholarly resources such as Grove Music Online (http://oxfordmusiconline.com) and the Harvard Dictionary of Music (4th ed., 2003 [http://corp.credoreference.com/index. php?option=com_content&...
- Unheard-of: music as performance and the reception of the new. (Forum on...
- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Dusman, Linda June 22, 1994 700+ words
...masculine and feminine as a simple example, and points out that "feminine" as defined by Willi Apel in the Harvard Dictionary of Music is more "romantic," implying that masculine cadences are more objective and rational (McClary 1991...
- The eclectic genius of a musical martyr
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Robert C. Marsh May 1, 1988 700+ words
...First on the list was the file box containing all the errors remaining in the original (1944) edition of the Harvard Dictionary of Music, which he read in proof. He then compiled one of the classic music reference books of the century...
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- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times James J. Kilpatrick April 19, 1987 700+ words
...Sylvester Mawson and Charles Berlitz. A few others: Hammond Barnhart Dictionary of Science, Don Randel's New Harvard Dictionary of Music, the Merriam-Webster New Biographical Dictionary, and the Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins...
- Warriors of the Lord: the Military Orders of Christendom.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Church History Crawford, Paul June 1, 2004 700+ words
...popular book. At the end there are two appendices, one on the everlasting "myth of the Templars," the other a sort of brief dictionary of military orders. The first offers a much saner version of the story than the mischievously slanderous Da Vinci Code...
