The most up-to-date music lexicon
The tried and tested Riemann Music Dictionary has been revised and updated. With five volumes, it is both comprehensive and compact.
The new edition of the Riemann Music Encyclopedia offers reliable, up-to-date specialist information, compiled by an international team of renowned academics. Five volumes offer around 9,400 articles on factual issues and basic concepts of music practice and music theory. The articles take into account the latest global developments in high and popular music culture, media technology and music-related fields of research, as well as composers and musicians who have attracted major attention in recent decades.
With this 13th revised, updated and supplemented new edition, the Riemann Music Dictionary its outstanding position as an important reference work which, despite its comprehensiveness, is easy to understand.
Riemann Musiklexikon, edited by Wolfgang Ruf, with the collaboration of Annette van Dyck-Hemming, 2532 pages in five volumes, ED 9000, € 229.00, Schott, Mainz 2013, ISBN 978-3-7957-0006-5
