Cross Index Title Guide to Classical Music

by Steve Pallay

Overview

No index can claim to be complete, but this one covers the major works of 220 composers from the Middle Ages to the present, listing each composition under its variant names, and giving the composer's last name. Some 6,000 entries are included in this compact volume. A list of the principal sources consulted will help users locate printed editions, recordings of a work, and bibliographical and biographical information about the composers. Music Educators Jourbanal

This comprehensive reference guide will serve as a much-needed companion volume to music dictionaries, to the literature of music history, and to composer monographs. Concentrating on major composers from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, it contains over 6,000 entries, listing each composition under its variant names, and giving the composer's last name. A section listing the principal sources consulted will aid the user in locating printed editions, recordings of a work, and biographical and bibliographical information about the composers. Compiled with both the professional and the amateur in mind, this guide will be found useful to an ever-increasing number of music devotees.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313255311
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/19/1987
Series:	Music Reference Collection , #12
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

STEVEN G. PALLAY is Records Librarian at Edward Johnson Music Library, University of Toronto, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Title-Composer Index
List of Composers
Key to Catalogue Numbers
Principal Sources