For a representative selection of musicians for whom the Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music includes entries, click on the category of interest. The Dictionary itself includes 5,500 entries which range in length from a paragraph to five or more pages, and which frequently include lists of works, bibliographies, and photographs. The emphasis of the Dictionary is on classical and art music, but ample attention is given to all genres. [a-z selection]
[composers] [writers & theorists] [conductors]
[singers] [instrument makers] [instrument players]
[jazz musicians] [blues musicians] [rock musicians]
[popular musicians] [country musicians] [folk musicians]

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