The Complete Guide to Orchestal Music. The Concert Companion

Robert Bagar and Louis Biancolli

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1947

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Hardcover. First Edition. The Complete Guide to Orchestral Music. The Concert Companion. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Small brown mark to first couple of pages. Beige boards, black cloth, gilt lettering. In addition to the acknowledged masters, the three B's and the like, you will find here many names that seldom appear on symphony programmes - Benjamin, Fernandez, Khrennikoff, Pfitzner, Revueltas, to name a few. Also you will find works discussed which, while seldom playes - Mahler's Ninrhy, for instancen - have a definite historical signidicance. If Shakespeare survives, he owes some of his permanence to Marlowe and Jonson. The unique feature of this book is its hositality ro American composers. Of the one hundred and sixty-three composers listed, forty-three are Americans. bHere again are many names that are undeniably important but which, for one reason or another, are seldom found in existing reference books, 868 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Guide to Orchestal Music. The Concert Companion
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, New York
• Publication Date: 1947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
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