Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 0193112094 ISBN 13: 9780193112094
Seller: Seagull Books, Hove, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Has some light general reading/shelfwear,with some tanning/speckling to page edges - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Book.
Seller: West Cove UK, Wellington, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some wear on DJ. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> The range and the richness of this remarkable collection of essays bear witness to the imaginative mind and the ecumenical musical interests of the man to whom it is dedicated. Gerald Abra-ham, internationally recognized as an authority on music of the nineteenth century, is dean of western specialists on Slavonic music. His British and Ameri-can colleagues here offer studies de-voted to Tchaikovsky, Dvor?k, Skri-abin, Sibelius, Balakirev, Khandoshkin, Serov, Musorgsky, and Chesnokov, as well as to Handel, Beethoven, Lalo, Blow, Schein, and Weber. Attention is also focused on "Russians in Venice," the eighteenth-century Com?die-Itali-enne, "Western Attitudes to Eastern Musics," and the prose of Donald Francis Tovey. Malcolm Hamrick Brown, Professor of Music and member of the Russian and East European Institute, Indiana Uni-versity, is author of numerous articles on Russian music. Dr. Brown-who received the American Council of Learned Societies/Soviet Academy of Sciences Grant as well as fellowships.