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Published by A. S. Barnes, New York, 1958, 1958
Condition: Very Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Very good gift inscription front free endpaper in torn chipped rubbed poor dust jacket. First edition.
Published by New York, G. Schirmer; distributor to the book trade: Grosset & Dunlap, 1961., 1961
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 322 pp. ; illustrated. ; 24 cm. ; "A centennial publication" ; LCCN: 61-65802 ; LC: ML200; Dewey: 780.973 ; OCLC: 507690 ; brown cloth with gold lettering ; no dustjacket ; spine sunned ; decorative endpapers ; Contents: Portrait of a publishing house / Paul Henry Lang -- The evolution of the American composer / Nathan Broder -- The American symphony orchestra / Helen M. Thompson -- Opera, the story of an immigrant / Philip L. Miller -- Church music : a century of contrasts / Robert Stevenson -- The plush era in American concert life / Nicolas Slonimsky -- Band music in America / Richard Franko Goldman -- Popular music from minstrel songs to rock 'n' roll / Arnold Shaw -- The dilemma of the music publishing industry / Richard F. French -- Music on records- 1877-1961 / Roland Gelatt -- Neither quick nor dead : the music book paradox / R.D. Darrell -- Music education : an American specialty / Allen P. Britton -- The taste-makers : critics and criticism / Edward Downes -- The America n music library, past, present, and future / Richard Gilmore Appel -- Government and the arts / Frank Thompson -- Copyright and the creative arts / Robert J. Burton -- Epilogue / Hans W. Heinsheimer. ; VG. Book.