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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians [20 VOLUMES, COMPLETE]
by Sadie, Stanley (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0333231112
- ISBN 13
- 9780333231111
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1998. First edition, later reprint. Hardcover. Very good +. Large octavo. 20 volumes. double column text. Index. Blue buckram, spines lettered in gilt. Library rubber stamps on each edge of the text block and a library bookplate reading, "SOKA University of America" on the rear pastedowns. There is also a "withdrawn" label on the front pastedowns. Aside from these markings, this is an internally clean and unmarked set.
"When, in 1969, my colleagues and I began to lay out our plans, we thought... we were preparing the sixth edition of the Grove dictionary first issued in 1870... As time and work went on, however, it became clear that we were producing not a new edition but a new dictionary..." (Preface)
Contents: v. 1. A to Bacilly -- v. 2. Back to Bolivia -- v. 3. Bollioud-Mermet to Castro -- v. 4. Castrucci to Courante -- v. 5. Couraud to Edlund -- v. 6. Edmund to Fryklund -- v. 7. Fuchs to Gyuzelev -- v. 8. H to Hyporchema -- v. 9. Iacobus to Kerman -- v. 10. Kern to Lindelheim -- v. 11. Lindeman to Mean-tone -- v. 12. Meares to Mutis -- v. 13. Muwashshah to Ory -- v. 14. Osaka to Player piano -- v. 15. Playford to Riedt -- v. 16. Riegel to Schusterfleck -- v. 17. Schutz to Spinto -- v. 18. Spiridion to Tin whistle -- v. 19. Tiomkin to Virdung -- v. 20. Virelai to Zywny ; Appendixes.
"When, in 1969, my colleagues and I began to lay out our plans, we thought... we were preparing the sixth edition of the Grove dictionary first issued in 1870... As time and work went on, however, it became clear that we were producing not a new edition but a new dictionary..." (Preface)
Contents: v. 1. A to Bacilly -- v. 2. Back to Bolivia -- v. 3. Bollioud-Mermet to Castro -- v. 4. Castrucci to Courante -- v. 5. Couraud to Edlund -- v. 6. Edmund to Fryklund -- v. 7. Fuchs to Gyuzelev -- v. 8. H to Hyporchema -- v. 9. Iacobus to Kerman -- v. 10. Kern to Lindelheim -- v. 11. Lindeman to Mean-tone -- v. 12. Meares to Mutis -- v. 13. Muwashshah to Ory -- v. 14. Osaka to Player piano -- v. 15. Playford to Riedt -- v. 16. Riegel to Schusterfleck -- v. 17. Schutz to Spinto -- v. 18. Spiridion to Tin whistle -- v. 19. Tiomkin to Virdung -- v. 20. Virelai to Zywny ; Appendixes.
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- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53699
- Title
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians [20 VOLUMES, COMPLETE]
- Author
- Sadie, Stanley (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, later reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0333231112
- ISBN 13
- 9780333231111
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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