Randel-The New Harvard Dictionary of Music

The New Harvard Dictionary of Music is THE classic reference work containing nearly 6000 entries, authored by over 70 top musicologists. Combining authoritative scholarship with concise, lively prose and hundreds of illustrations, The New Harvard Dictionary of Music is an essential guide for all music lovers and the indispensable companion to The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music.

"[Moves] impressively and easily between non-Western and Western music, integrating ancient theory and modern practice into a genuinely, and invigoratingly, global survey."

--Christopher Wintle, Times Literary Supplement
"This single volume [provides] as full a range of non-biographical information as most of us are likely to require."

--Peter Heyworth, Observer
"The New Harvard Dictionary of Music is easily the most useful of all musical dictionaries because of its accuracy, concision, and ease of reference."

--Charles Rosen, author of The Romantic Generation