"Over a million words in length, The Oxford Companion to Music is the biggest, most authoritative, and most up-to-date single-volume music reference book available. It provides in-depth coverage of all aspects of music - from composers, musicians, and performers, to genres, instruments, works, and notation. It places music in its social and cultural context, with entries on topics such as politics, religion, psychology, and computers, and is up to date with current research in and approaches to music, including analysis, theory, ethnomusicology, and performance practice." The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of all time. This completely new edition draws on both the classic Oxford Companion to Music by Percy Scholes, first published in 1938, and the two-volume New Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Denis Arnold (1983), but is thoroughly revised and reimagined for the 21st century.

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