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The Oxford Companion to Music Review: The best single volume music reference - I bought this because I miss my recently acquired Groves, which is at our summer home and find the Norton/Groves Concise a little too concise. So I bought this and the Harvard to help me with my woefully inadequate music education. Liner notes will only get you just so far. Anyway, this book offers quite good biographs particularly for the major composers. Even secondary figures typically get 2 or 3 paragraphs. Musicology stuff is good, but generally the Harvard is my go-to for technical information. Between the two of them I feel like the bases are covered sufficiently for all practical purposes. If I want greater detail I will just have to wait until I can access my Groves. Also, the amount of information that is contained, the quality of the research, the writing, the paper, the binding, all things together, make this book an amazing bargain. Review: Excellent reference for those who love classical music - The Oxford Companion to Music is an excellent reference work for those who love classical music. It's probably not detailed or technical enough for most professional musicians; but those who enjoy listening to the endless variety and vast range of emotions of classical music (that's a plug!) will find the OCM can considerably enhance their enjoyment. This is a big work of 1,434 pages; but the typeface, while small, is well-chosen. It's clean and clear; even these old eyes read it with no difficulty. There are extended articles on famous conductors and all the major composers plus numerous others that you never heard of. The biographies are helpful in placing a composer's works in the context of his life. Especially helpful is a well-chosen but unannotated bibliography after most of the biographies. There are also major articles on different forms of music, types of instruments, etc. I thought I knew a lot about the sonata form, but I know more now after reading that article. There is almost no analysis of individual works; to include them would probably have doubled the size of this work. I've used a number of classical reference works over the years, but the OCM is easily the best. It's complete enough so as not to oversimplify too drastically but not so long that "you learn more about penguins that you really want to know." ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #1,614,886 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #76 in Music Bibliographies & Indexes #731 in Music Encyclopedias #1,404 in Music Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (107) | | Dimensions | 8 x 2.5 x 9.75 inches | | Edition | 1st | | ISBN-10 | 0198662122 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0198662129 | | Item Weight | 4.65 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 1448 pages | | Publication date | January 1, 2002 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press España, S.A. | ## Images ![The Oxford Companion to Music - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+pqT+ijNL.jpg) ![The Oxford Companion to Music - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41KviWMKVYL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best single volume music reference *by B***N on April 9, 2025* I bought this because I miss my recently acquired Groves, which is at our summer home and find the Norton/Groves Concise a little too concise. So I bought this and the Harvard to help me with my woefully inadequate music education. Liner notes will only get you just so far. Anyway, this book offers quite good biographs particularly for the major composers. Even secondary figures typically get 2 or 3 paragraphs. Musicology stuff is good, but generally the Harvard is my go-to for technical information. Between the two of them I feel like the bases are covered sufficiently for all practical purposes. If I want greater detail I will just have to wait until I can access my Groves. Also, the amount of information that is contained, the quality of the research, the writing, the paper, the binding, all things together, make this book an amazing bargain. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent reference for those who love classical music *by M***R on May 15, 2002* The Oxford Companion to Music is an excellent reference work for those who love classical music. It's probably not detailed or technical enough for most professional musicians; but those who enjoy listening to the endless variety and vast range of emotions of classical music (that's a plug!) will find the OCM can considerably enhance their enjoyment. This is a big work of 1,434 pages; but the typeface, while small, is well-chosen. It's clean and clear; even these old eyes read it with no difficulty. There are extended articles on famous conductors and all the major composers plus numerous others that you never heard of. The biographies are helpful in placing a composer's works in the context of his life. Especially helpful is a well-chosen but unannotated bibliography after most of the biographies. There are also major articles on different forms of music, types of instruments, etc. I thought I knew a lot about the sonata form, but I know more now after reading that article. There is almost no analysis of individual works; to include them would probably have doubled the size of this work. I've used a number of classical reference works over the years, but the OCM is easily the best. It's complete enough so as not to oversimplify too drastically but not so long that "you learn more about penguins that you really want to know." ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent condition! *by A***N on May 18, 2023* I wanted to increase my reference library for graduate school and was worried such a large volume as this would come to me in a less than ideal condition. Much to my surprise, not only was it well wrapped, cushioned, and in excellent condition, but it also arrived about 6 days earlier than planned. 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