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General music reference works include Don Michael Randel (ed.), The New Harvard Dictionary of Music (1986); and Denis Arnold, The New Oxford Companion to Music, 2 vol. (1983, reprinted 1990). Also useful are Friedrich Blume (ed.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 17 vol. (1949–86); Stanley Sadie (ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 20 vol. (1980, reprinted 1993); and Theodore Baker, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 8th ed., rev. by Nicolas Slonimsky (1992).
Survey histories include Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, 4th ed. (1988); New Oxford History of Music, 10 vol. (1954–90), with some volumes in 2nd editions; and K Marie Stolba, The Development of Western Music: A History, 2nd ed. (1994).
The Prentice Hall History of Music Series offers a comprehensive set of period surveys, including Jeremy Yudkin, Music in Medieval Europe (1989); Howard Mayer Brown, Music in the Renaissance (1976); Claude V. Palisca, Baroque Music, 3rd ed. (1991); Reinhard G. Pauly, Music in the Classic Period, 3rd ed. (1988); Rey M. Longyear, Nineteenth-century Romanticism in Music, 3rd ed. (1988); and Eric Salzman, Twentieth-century Music, 3rd ed. (1988). The following monographs offer more detailed studies of specific periods: Albrecht Riethmüller and Frieder Zaminer (eds.), Die Musik des Altertums (1989); Lise Manniche, Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt (1991); Giovanni Comotti, Music in Greek and Roman Culture (1989; originally published in Italian, 1979); Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music (1978); Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance, rev. ed. (1959); Lorenzo Bianconi, Music in the Seventeenth Century (1987; originally published in 1982); Manfred F. Bukofzer, Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi to Bach (1947, reissued 1977); Philip G. Downs, Classical Music (1992); Leon Plantinga, Romantic Music (1984); Robert P. Morgan, Twentieth-century Music (1991); and Nicolas Slonimsky, Music Since 1900, 5th ed. (1994).
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| Link added. | Mar 15, 2024 | ||
| Video and link added. | Mar 30, 2023 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Aug 04, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: h2g2 - The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - A Brief History of Western Music. | Jul 05, 2017 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 14, 2016 | ||
| In the Introduction, clarified the role of Rome in transmitting Mediterranean music to what is now western Europe, and other changes made. | Mar 27, 2015 | ||
| Added The Magic Marksman as an alternate translation of Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz. | Jan 24, 2011 | ||
| Added illustration. | Feb 11, 2009 | ||
| Illustration added. | Feb 11, 2009 | ||
| Following contemporary scholarly practice, changed spelling of Gioacchino (Rossini) to Gioachino. | Feb 11, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Country and Western Music. | Dec 05, 2008 | ||
| Changed aleatoric to aleatory. | Sep 29, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Aug 02, 2002 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 29, 2000 | ||
| Article revised. | Jun 21, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 26, 1999 |