The guide provides a series of essays that describe and evaluate the critical literature in music. Both biographical and topical entries are included focusing on the literature written on the topics. Includes brief, current bibliographies. Dictionary of Music Titles by Adrian Room. This interesting source gives the origins of the names and titles of 3,500 compositions.
Some entries simply identify the work while others explain the name given to it.
These are the subject volumes, and this part is complete. There will be 12 volumes plus indexes for the biographical volumes that are just starting to be published. Extensive bibliographies will lead researchers to current and historical information. In the biographical volumes, lists of works are given in chart form with lots of information including thematic catalog number, other numbering systems, location in complete works and more. We hope you've used it by now.