The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music & Opera Boxed Set Paperback

Box The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music & Opera met 2 paperback boeken: The COD of Music met ISBN 0193113074 en ongeveer 636 pagina's. By Percy A. Scholes. Second edition edited by John Owen Ward. Oxford University Press. The COD of Opera met ISBN 0193113120 en ongeveer 446 pagina's. By Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack. London Oxford University Press. The COD of Music: The excellent, practical ready-reference book has ample but concise information about music, its structure, instruments, and performance. It also contains many short biographical entries about vocal and instrumental executans, conductors, and writers about music, with special attention to living musicians. Altogether there are more than 8,000 items. In addition, diagrams and explanatory pictures have been used whenever these are helpful, as well as illustrative passages in musical notation. The COD of Opera: This addition of the range of Oxford dictionaries, compiled by Harold Rosenthal and John Warrack, meets the need for a compact, comprehensive, but inexpensive reference book on opera. There are over 3,000 entries covering composers, singers, conductors, librettists, synopses, details fo first performances, characters in operas, the first lines of better-known arias, and the history of opera’s development. Technical and professional terms such as verismo, claque, coloratura, and tessitura are also explained. Harold Rosenthal, formerly the official archivist at Covent Garden, is editor of Opera and has written and edited a number of books in the operatic fields. John Warrack formerly worked in various opera companies as an orchestral player and was from 1961 to 1972 Music Critic of the Sunday Telegraph; he is the author of books on Weber and Tchaikovsky, and one of the editors of Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians.