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The Interpretation of Music
by Thurston Dart
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Harper Colophon Books, 1963. Soft cover. Good. 192 pages, with index, glossary, bibliography, suggestions for further reading, eight pages of musical examples. A survey of musical notation, style, the development of instruments and their sonorities, and many other topics related, especially, to early music and its performance. First Harper Colophon edition of book published 1954. Trade paperback, remainder mark - hole punched in front cover, wraps worn along their edges. Former owner's name written on half-title, her underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-555
- Title
- The Interpretation of Music
- Author
- Thurston Dart
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Harper Colophon Books
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, INSTRUMENTS, RENAISSANCE, SONORITY, EARLY MUSIC, DANCE, SINGING, STYLE, NOTATION, HUMAN VOICE, MADRIGALS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
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Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
About the Seller
Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
About Berthoff Books
Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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- Edges
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- Remainder Mark
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- Marginalia
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- Colophon
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