Book Notes
THE Oxford University Press have in preparation The New Oxford History of Music, which will be issued in eleven volumes under the general direction of an editorial board consisting of Professor J. A. Westrup, Professor Edward J. Dent, the Rev. Dom Anselm Hughes and Dr. Egon Wellesz. The original Oxford History of Music first appeared in six volumes in 1901-5, and, in spite of the addition of later volumes, the publishers consider that a good deal of it is out of date. The new work; which begins with primitive music and ends with the present day, is planned to satisfy the demands of modern scholarship while at the same tune appealing to readers who ate interested in the development of music as a factor in the history of mankind. Each volume will have its own editor, and will be written by a group of contributors. Dent are publishing in January Every- man's Dictionary of Music, which has been compiled by Eric Blom. An entirely . new book of reference, it has 'woo° entries, which include references to composers, titles of works, musical terms, past performers, institutions and instruments.
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