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| The venerable (and indispensable) dictionary, revised and updated. |
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Key Information
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| Editors: |
John Tyrrell, Stanley Sadie |
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Dictionaries |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Music |
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Professional Reviews
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New York Times: "Imagine spending 20 years mastering the 16 million words of THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS only to learn that there are now nine million more. Twenty volumes have grown to 29 in the new edition, including an overall index. New Grove II, for short, is as deep as before, but it is wider. Major articles (Bach, Counterpoint, Musica Ficta) remain painstaking, long and full. There is an added avalanche of three- and four-inch entries dealing with the marginal and the near-irrelevant. Utz Steigleder, 16th-century Stuttgart composer; Leith Stevens, a writer of Hollywood film scores; and hundreds more like them still tantalize us on almost every two-column page....New Grove II is more ecumenical, and a bit more user-friendly [than THE NEW GROVE DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS].", Times Literary Supplement: "There are many good pieces. Sadie had a sure grasp of what should be kept, what needed revision, where some new scholar would have something new to say. I have been using [the new Grove] near-daily for a year now...with increasing admiration for the achievement.....Tutto nel mondo musicale h qui..., everything one needs to know and then some. Yet we can still grumble....NG2 seems to have been rushed into print with something less than due care and attention." |
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Book Editions
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- Hardcover
- January 29, 2004
- Oxford Univ Pr
- 19"(h) x 25"(w) x 22"(d), 153.4 lbs.
- 9780195170672
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