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MUSIC (Newsweek World of Culture Books, Volume One)
by Grunfeld, Frederic V
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0882251015
- ISBN 13
- 9780882251011
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Newsweek Books, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9. Type: Hardback First Edition, First Volume of Newsweek Books World of Culture Series. Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket in Very Good Condition. Lavishly illustrated--170 illustrations, more than a third in full color. Portraits, drawings, frescoes, medieval manuscript illuminations, romantic paintings, posters, scenic designs, and modern photographs form a vivid counterpoint to the authoritative text. The history of music is filled with giants you will meet here--Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Chopin and Liszt, the five who revolutionized Russian music, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, , and on to jazz, and rock and the Beattles. "Memoirs of Musical Lives" , excerpts from writings by and about Toscanni, Rubinstein, Marian Anderson, Aaron Copeland, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and others. A five page chronology relates events in the history of music to other cultural and political developments. Very clean and unmarked red cloth with gilt line drawing on front and gilt titles on spine, light wear to lower corners, tight and solid and square. On corner of paste-down, there is a small blacked out something, otherwise, internals are as new. 192 pages, indexed. 7.5 x 10 inches. 1974, Newsweek Books, New York.
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025286
- Title
- MUSIC (Newsweek World of Culture Books, Volume One)
- Author
- Grunfeld, Frederic V
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0882251015
- ISBN 13
- 9780882251011
- Publisher
- Newsweek Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1974
- Size
- 4to - over 9
- Keywords
- MUSIC, CLASSICAL; BACH; MOZART; BEETHOVEN; STRAVINSKY; SYMPHONIES; OPERA; ORCHESTRA; MUSICIANS; COMPOSERS;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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