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- From: roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig)
- Subject: Re: Single-volume reference books: Concise Grove? (almost a faq)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.171257.2762@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:12:57 GMT
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- In article <will.725732515@ogre> will@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (William Sadler) writes:
-
- >For a single volume reference I would suggest Willi Apel's Harvard Dictionary
- >of Music (the revised edition is OK, but the original was better in
- >many ways). I'm not familiar with the Concise Grove, but that is
- >because I always use the non-concise one.
-
- The revised edition (by Don Randel) is my choice. What was so good about
- the Apel? (Also, there are some real howlers in there--see under "accent,"
- for instance.)
-
- Roger
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