PERCY A. SCHOLES. SECOND EDITION EDITED BY JOHN OWEN WARD - The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music

London England, Oxford University Press, 1972. Reprint, Binding: Soft Cover, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0193113074 Paperback Paperback. Slight browning to edges of pages through age. This excellent, practical ready-reference book has ample but concise information about music, its structure, instruments, and performance. it also contains many short biographical entries about vocal and intrumental executants, conductors, and writers about music, with special attention to living musicians; these entries constitute only a part of a musical 'who's who' of some 3,500 items. In addition, diagrams and explanatory pictures ahave been used whenever these are helpful, as well as illustrative passages in musical notation. 636 pp.