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Synopsis
The New Penguin Dictionary of Music is the essential A-Z of some 1,000 years of Western music. It explores in detail the lives and achievements of a huge range of composers, and examines such key topics as music history (from medieval plainchant to contemporary minimalism), performers, theory and jargon. Written by an award-winning music critic, and blending scholarship with personal insight and opinion, this dictionary is both a pleasurable read and an invaluable and authoritative reference book for all lovers of music, whether amateur or professional.
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About the Author
Paul Griffiths has been writing about music professionally for more than 30 years. He was chief music critic of The Times and The New Yorker, has contributed to many other publications, and is a recipient of the Commonwealth Prize.
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A Selection of Sample Entries:
'Aston, Hugh (b. c.1485; buried Leicester, 17 Nov 1558). English composer and church musician. He was active in Leicester by 1525, having previously been in Coventry and perhaps London. His works include sacred works and a striking keyboard piece, A Hornepype'.
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'asymmetry. Applied to music, the term usually denotes lack of rhythmic regularity, whether due to changing metre, cross-rhythm or absence of stable pulse'.
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'Atemlos (Ger). Breathlessly'.
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'Athalia. Oratorio by Handel to words by Samuel Humphreys after Racine's play. Athalia (soprano), queen of Judah, has deserted Jehovah for Baal, and is supplanted by her grandson Joas (treble) at the behest of his aunt Josabeth (soprano) and her husband, the high-priest Joad (countertenor). First performance: Oxford, 10 Jul 1733'.
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