Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart
Universal Encyclopedia of Music
Supplement Volume
Cloth with dust cover, German text
Special price available only for subscribers: € 177,50
ISBN 978-3-7618-1139-9
now available
A joint publication by Bärenreiter-Verlag and Verlag J. B. Metzler
The Supplement Volume adds 800 new biographical and subject entries to the MGG‘s rich array of material. Special attention has
been given to entries on contemporary artists and new concepts as well as more substantial articles on the history of genres.
Only with the supplement will your knowledge of music be completely up-to-date.
The volume contains
- biographical entries, including instrument makers, writers on
music, performers, conductors, contemporary composers, rock
and pop musicians as well as jazz musicians
- entries on topics of recent interest to musicologists, including
gender studies, Sound Art, New Simplicity, regional research,
Klezmer and World Music
- entries on the history of genres, including opera, revue and
Chinese music theater