Denis Midgley Arnold (15th December 1926-1986) was a British musicologist, He was born in Sheffield. After work in the extra-mural department of The Queen's University, Belfast, he became a Lecturer in Music at the University of Hull, and from 1969 to 1975 was Professor of Music at Nottingham. From 1975 he was Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University. The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

He is best known for his editing of The New Oxford Companion to Music (1983, Oxford University Press), which under his editorship grew to a 2 volume work of some 2000 pages, with a broader coverage than Percy Scholes' original; and for his work on the music of Monteverdi, Marenzio and Giovanni Gabrieli. He was a frequent broadcaster. The Oxford Companion to Music is a popular music reference book produced by the Oxford University Press. ... Percy Alfred Scholes (1877–1958) was a musician, journalist and prolific writer, whose best-known achievement was the compilation of the Oxford Companion to Music. ... For the composer see Claudio Monteverdi For the Swiss automobile brand created by Peter Monteverdi, see Monteverdi (car) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Luca Marenzio (1553? - August 22, 1599) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. ... Giovanni Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli (1553–1556? – August 12, 1612) was an Italian composer and organist. ...