Contains 12,500 entries on composers, performing artists, musical terms, instruments, and titles and descriptions of individual works.

Contains over 130 entries arranged by composer and a recommended discography for the definitive collection of classical music.

Relates the lives and careers of country musicians in over 1,200 alphabetically arranged entries, with lists of various awards and their winners throughout the years and names and addresses of agents, managers, record companies, and fan clubs.

An A to Z guide to the people, places, forms, styles, and language of 100 years of music, with more than 1,000 entries.