Works by women composers, including Francesca Caccini, Fanny Mendelssohn, Ethel Smyth, [et al]

Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.

Antonio Gardano's publications are among the most important sources of sixteenth-century music. This final volume in Mary Lewis's three volume set completes the catalogue of Antonio Gardano's publications, covering the years 1560-1569.

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.