What is a fugue? What is the difference between a saxophone and
a saxhorn? Who besides Puccini wrote an opera called "La Boheme"?
In what year was the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra formed
under Arturo Toscanini's direction? These and thousands of similar
questions are answered in this comprehensive dictionary that
remains unrivaled as a single-volume summary. "A New Dictionary of
Music" is a basic reference work for anyone interested in music,
whether performer or layman.
It covers orchestral, solo, choral, and chamber music, opera,
and (in its musical aspects) the ballet. There are entries for
composers (with biographies and details of compositions); works
well known by their titles, such as operas and symphonic poems;
orchestras, performers and conductors of importance today; musical
instruments (including those of the dance and brass bands); and
technical terms. English names and terms are used whenever
possible, but foreign terms in general use are cross-referenced.
Particular importance has been attached to bringing the reader
abreast of new musical developments.
The composers and musical works chosen were those most likely to
be encountered. Where an opera is given an entry, a brief
explanation of the title follows. Similarly explication is provided
for other works bearing literary or otherwise allusive titles.
Among performers and conductors, only the following are included:
those who, although dead, continue to be prominent through recorded
performances (e.g., Gigli); the highest-ranking international
artists of today, plus a very few apparently on the verge of
attaining that rank; a few who, though not necessarily at the very
head of their profession, are closely associated with composers in
bringing out new works, or are conductors in charge of important
orchestras.
"Arthur Jacobs" is well-known both in his native England and in
the United States as a critic, author, translator of librettos,
lecturer, and broadcaster.
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