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This 6-volume set of Bakers covers all musical genres, with entries written by a distinguished group of area specialists as well as the original articles of Nicolas Slonimsky. More than 15, 000 biographies span the medieval ages to the present.

An updated and expanded edition of this perennial favorite, tracing the line of composers from Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s.

Since its initial publication in 1980, the Dictionary has been widely acclaimed as an indispensable resource and a classic reference.

Contains scores of instrumental music and vocal music from Plainsong to the 20th century.

Looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.

Deals with the music from early Christian times to the end of the thirteenth century, embracing the change from monody to polyphony and from a free rhythm to rhythmic regularity, two of the revolutions in style which have determined the character of modern Western music.

This is a history of medieval music in itself and it contains complete works or--at least--integral movements of larger works. All the characteristic styles of the period are represented, and text translations accompany each work.

Part of the New Oxford history of music. It looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.

Part of the New Oxford history of music which looks at ancient and oriental music and traces the history of western music from medieval times to the twentieth century.

A collection of outstanding musical examples illustrating the general course of musical style from the early Middle Ages to the mid-eighteenth century.

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite telling of the story of Western music from its earliest days to the present.