ISBN10: 0393975274, ISBN13: 9780393975277, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.] Hardcover
[OTTAWA, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2001]

ISBN10: 0393975274, ISBN13: 9780393975277, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.] Hardcover
[OTTAWA, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2001]

ISBN10: 0393975274, ISBN13: 9780393975277, [publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York London] Hardcover Small quarto (10 3/8" x x 7 1/4" x 1 1/2"), dark green cloth with gold letterng on spine, profusely illustrated with examples of music, maps, tables, color plates, and images of musicians, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with detail from "Musical Instruments" painting by Georges Braque, pale gray endpapers, Index, 843 pages. Weight: 3 lbs. 9 oz. Widely recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music. It stands alone, but is often used with the Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music (2 vols. of 6 CD's each). Donald Jay Grout (1902 - 1987) was a distinguished American musicologist. He is also well known as the author of A Short History of Opera, first published in 1947. Claude V. Palisca (1921 - 2001) was an American musicologist. An internationally recognized authority on early music, especially opera of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, he was the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University. SUPERIOR solid, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket that is clean and bright with slight edgewear. No previous owner or remainder marks.
[Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]