Preface
Oxford Dictionary of Musical Terms A-Z
Appendix: Index of Composers, with dates
Alison Latham is a writer and editor of music reference books. She
is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Music (2002), and was a
member of the editorial team of the multi-volume New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980 edn). She was also
assistant editor of The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music,
co-editor (with Stanley Sadie) of The Cambridge Guide to Music and
(with Roger Parker) of Verdi in Performance. She
was publications editor at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,
from 1989 to 2000, and has co-edited The Musical Times.
`Her work scores over rival dictionaries with its close attention
to musicological terms. Strongly recommended.'
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