Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Researched Bibliographic Dossier
Verified edition data and a musicological research note prepared specifically for this work.
- Title
- Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
- Author
- John Denison Champlin Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (eds.)
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner’s Sons
- Place
- New York
- Year
- 1888–1890
- Extent
- 3 volumes
- Language
- English
- Type
- Historical music encyclopedia / biography
SCOPE & CONTENT
Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians is treated here as a major reference work for Classical Archive. Its value lies in structured consultation rather than continuous reading: it supports identification of people, works, terminology, genres, instruments, institutions, repertory or recordings according to the scope of the publication. The dossier records the edition represented and places the work within the wider history of musical reference literature.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research, reference works of this kind are especially useful for establishing names, dates, terminology, work lists and bibliographic starting points. Entries must nevertheless be read in the context of their publication date: later research can revise attributions, chronology, catalogues and biographical interpretation. Where the work exists in several editions, the edition stated here is essential to citation and comparison.
REFERENCE SCOPE
This dossier identifies the reference work as a consultation tool and preserves the edition, editorial responsibility, publication context and subject coverage needed to distinguish it from similarly titled dictionaries, encyclopedias and later revisions.
RESEARCH USE
Use the work for orientation, terminology, biographical control, work lists and bibliography, while checking contested or time-sensitive facts against later specialist research and current critical catalogues.
- Catalogue completeness
- 7 / 10 core bibliographic fields