The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music Author:Willi Apel and Ralph T. Daniel This companion to the famous "Harvard Dictionary of Music" was prepared with a particular reader in mind - the amateur in the best sense of the word, whether a high school student learning an instrument or an adult with a serious interest in music but without special training. It provides a wide range of definitions, descriptions, brief explanat... more »ions of numerous individual works, operas and symphonies and many musical examples and drawings of instruments. The emphasis throughout is on music the student or the listener is likely to play or hear performed.« less