The Oxford Companion to music -- Percy A. Scholes

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        Ninth Edition, Oxford University Press, 1963, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap - Music - 1195pp. Self-indexed and with a pronouncing glossary and over 1000 portraits and pictures.

Scholes has produced a 1-volume encyclopaedia of music that is not only comprehensive and informative but (unlike many music dictionaries and encyclopaedias) fun to read. He does not shy away from opinion and his personal quirks are part of the charm. Tidbits such as the (speculative?) etymology of "basset horn" are found here and practically nowhere else.

Oriented mostly to classical or "serious" music, although pop music and jazz are not ignored. While a bit dated given its 1938 copyright, updates in 1955 and 1970 have allowed good coverage of such important 20th-century figures as Bartok and Hindemith.

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