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The Penguin Companion to Classical Music
Author(s): Paul Griffiths (Author)
- Publisher: Penguin Books
- Publication Date: August 30, 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 912 pages
- ISBN-10: 0140515593
- ISBN-13: 9780140515596
Book Description
A respected music critic offers a comprehensive overview of the world of classical music in an A-to-Z reference that encompasses more than a millennium of Western music and includes biographies of thousands of composers, as well as coverage of individual works, musical history and instruments, musical forms, technical terms and jargon, operatic plots, and other key areas. Original.
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About the Author
Paul Griffiths, former chief music critic of the New Yorker and a regular contributor to the New York Times, has been writing about music professionally for more than thirty years and is a recipient of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
