The Book of Musical Knowledge: The History, Technique, and Appreciation of Music Together with Lives of the Great Composers for Music-Lovers, Students and Teachers.

Elson, Arthur

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company--The Riverside Cambridge Press, 1927

About this Item

Type: Hardback Back New and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover Bookin Good Condition. No jacket. The History, Technique, and Appreciation of Music, Together with the Lives of Great Composers. Frontis: portrait of Wagner; 38 additional illustrations, of composers individually and a few in groups. Bound in full red cloth, gilt titles, gilt rubbed off on spine, intact on front. Clean and unmarked, rubbed, lower outer quadrant of front panel is darker. Corners are scuffed, spine head and heel frayed. Spine sunned. Very solid and tight sewn binding. Rough cut on fore edge and bottom edge. Internals are very clean, unmarked, untorn, no creasing. 609 pages with Appendix of Musical Terms and Index. 1.75 x 6.5 x 9.6 inches. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1933. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Book of Musical Knowledge: The History, Technique, and Appreciation of Music Together with Lives of the Great Composers for Music-Lovers, Students and Teachers.
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company--The Riverside Cambridge Press
• Publication Date: 1927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music. Musicians. Composers. Orchestras.