The Observer's Book of Music. 1960 by Dinn, Freda - 1960-01-01

HARDBACK ?VOLUME 16 IN THE SERIES,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: Revised & reprinted.* Date of Publication: 1960* Publisher: Warne.* Binding and cover condition: Chrome yellow boards, claret title to spine and face. No bumps, slight rubs, minimal wear to edges and corners. Some age marks to lower edgees. VG* Jacket condition: Blue & black text on cream illustrated dust wrapper. Not price clipped showing shelf-price of 5/-, some considerable ageing. Serious shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with chips & some losses but essentially complete in clear film library jacket. ACC* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with very minor reading wear, edges darkened. GD+* Illustrations: Numerous b/w line drawings with single colour highlights (some red, some blue, some yellow.). Illustrated glossary at rear.* Pages: 185 pp. text. viii pp. appendices & index at rear.* Description: Item No 16 in the Warne?s series of Observer titles. The first chapter, on Sound, is followed by descriptions of the instruments of the modern orchestra, their origins and development, together with notes on the ancient instruments of the past. Stringed instruments, wind, percussion, the organ ? all are dealt with, and the reader learns what each instrument looks like and how it works. This pocket guide, with its numerous illustrations, many of which are coloured, is an invaluable source of information for the music-lover. This is the 1960 edition revised & reprinted.* A NEAR VG copy with minor faults, reduced by considerable dust jacket faults to ACC*