The Oxford Companion to Music is one of the most famous music reference works of all time. Over a million words in length, it is the biggest, most authoritative, and most up to date single-volume music reference book available.This edition draws on both the classic Oxford Companion to Music by Percy Scholes, first published in 1938, and the two-volume New Oxford Companion to Music , edited by Denis Arnold (1983), but is thoroughly revised and reimaginedfor the 21st century.