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The Harvard Dictionary of Music is a standardmusic reference book published by theBelknap Press ofHarvard University Press.
The first edition, titledHarvard Dictionary of Music, was published in 1944, and was edited byWilli Apel. The second edition, also edited by Apel, was published in 1969. A new editor,Don Michael Randel, took over for the third edition in 1986. The book was retitledThe New Harvard Dictionary of Music, and featured expanded coverage oftwentieth-century andnon-Western music, and including information onjazz andpopular music for the first time. For the fourth edition (2003, also edited by Randel), the book reverted to the earlier title (with the article added),The Harvard Dictionary of Music.
Unlike some other standard music reference books,The Harvard Dictionary of Music includes no biographical entries. Biographical information may be found in a companion volume,The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, published in 1996, which contains approximately 5500 entries.
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