Энциклопедический музыкальный словарь

This publication is intended for a wide circle of music lovers, leaders and participants in amateur music performances, teachers and students of music schools, professional musicians.

In its type, this book is a short encyclopedic dictionary containing up to 4,500 terms. The dictionary covers various areas of musical culture.

The dictionary includes: musical aesthetics, music theory (melody, rhythm, harmony, polyphony, dynamics, tempos, modes, etc.), musical acoustics, musical performance, styles and schools, genres and forms, dances and choreography, musical instruments and singing voices, music writing and printing, magazines and newspapers, dictionaries and encyclopedias, theaters and groups, institutions and societies, concerts and festivals. The dictionary includes information about individual musical works (operas, ballets, operettas, orchestral and other instrumental pieces, vocal works), bibliographic information about the history of music and about cultural figures in their connection with music. Biographical articles provide information about composers, performers (instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors), directors, musicologists, musical instrument makers and other figures in the musical arts.

The book is well illustrated.