1st Edition

Reader's Guide to Music History, Theory and Criticism

Edited By Murray Steib Copyright 1999
928 Pages
by Routledge

928 Pages
by Routledge

The Reader's Guide to Music is designed to provide a useful single-volume guide to the ever-increasing number of English language book-length studies in music. Each entry consists of a bibliography of some 3-20 titles and an essay in which these titles are evaluated, by an expert in the field, in light of the history of writing and scholarship on the given topic. The more than 500 entries... Read more
Volume 1; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; How to use the Catalogue; Abbreviations and Other Indicators; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Denis Gifford, 1927–2000; The British Film Catalogue: Fiction Film, 1895–1994; Index; Volume 2; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; How to Use the Catalogue; Abbreviations and Other Indicators; Denis Gifford, 1927–2000; The British Film Catalogue: Fiction Film, 1895–1994; Index;

Biography

Murray Steib

"Fills a gap in the literature and will be useful to graduate and undergraduate students, faculty teaching outside their own specialty, and general readers. Highly recommended." -- Choice
"Must become one of the standard references to which people desiring solid introductory knowledge may turn with confidence." -- Contemporary Review