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Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Joseph, Robert S. - Design (illustrator). First Edition. 357 Pages. Green boards with silver lettering to spine and front and one half-inch frayed bit on bottom front edge. Barely noticeable. Ex Libris with name on front endpaper. No other marks and interior text pages are bright, tight, and white. The dust jacket has chipped edges and a two inch tear and the front has some stains. The flaps however are very good with an unclipped price of $3.75. This book is a history of music in which each composer is presented by the leading available authority on his music and his time. The reader is brought to a more intimate acquaintance with the great composers and their music than would otherwise be possible. The method by which this book is edited eliminates the prejudices and blind spots from which every history written from the point of view of one individual must suffer. Beginning with two chapters surveying music history before the time of Bach, From Bach to Stravinsky devotes the remaining chapters to the individual composers. A summing up of modem musical trends forms the subject of a final chapter. Brief biographical sketches and lists of the composers' principal works make the book additionally useful. Every music lover will naturally welcome this book and every layman will find the book a new kind of music history without the bias and limitations of popular music histories and without the technicalities and obscurities of the more academic books for musicians. Contents in Twenty Chapters: The Periods of Musical History Daniel Gregory Mason, The Beginnings of Opera Carl Engel, Bach C. Sanford Terry, Handel by Romain Rolland, Haydn by W. Oliver Strunk, Mozart by W. J. Turner, Beethoven by C. Hubert H. Parry, The Romantic Movement by Paul Bekker, Schubert by C. Hubert H. Parry, Chopin by J. Cuthbert Hadden, Schumann by W. H. Hadow, Wagner by H. C. Colles, Brahms by J. A. Fuller-Maitland, Russian Musical History in Kaleidoscope by M. Montagu Nathan, Tchaikovsky by R. A. Streatfeild, Franck Leland Hall, Debssy and Ravel by Paul Rosenfeld, Late Romanticism and Modern Trends Paul Bekker, Stravinsky by Leonid Sabaneyeff, and Harking Back and Looking Forward by Carl Engel.