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In Oxford/Grove Music Online. Subsections include: Usage and scope of the term; To 1600; 17th and 18th centuries; From 1800 to World War I; After World War I. Includes a detailed bibliography.
In Oxford Bibliographies: Music.. Includes the history of chamber music, as well as various instrumentations: strings, piano & strings, woodwinds, brass, and mixed scoring.