The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

The New Penguin Dictionary of Music is the essential A-Z of some 1,000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Written by an award-winning music critic, and blending scholarship with personal insight and opinion, this dictionary is both a pleasurable read and an invaluable and authoritative reference book for all lovers of music, whether amateur or professional.

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• ISBN: 9780141009254
• Number of pages: 912
• Weight: 617g
• Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mm