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An illustrated companion volume to The New Harvard Dictionary of Music offers authoritative articles covering nearly 5,500 figures in the history of music, from classical to jazz to hymns to blues. UP. Amazon.com Review
From Pietro Aaron to Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Don Randel compiles 1,013 pages of thumbnail sketches describing the life and music of 5,500 individuals who figure significantly in the world of music. Intended for “the musically incline… More >>
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This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about Virginia’s earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived, resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published. Ms. McCartney conveys the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the “hundreds” and “plantations” the… More >>
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