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Product Description: Author, music critic, artist and musician, Peter was born in Northwich, cheshire in 1925, inheriting his musical interests from his father who was a cellist. Educated at Sir John Deane's Grammar School, he won a scholarship to Manchester college but towards the end of the Second World War was called up to join the army serving in the Royal Armoured Corps as a tank driver, ending with the 25th Dragoons in India...read more
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9781782819844 | G2 Entertainment Ltd, May 15, 2016, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Author, music critic, artist and musician, Peter was born in Northwich, cheshire in 1925, inheriting his musical interests from his father who was a cellist.
9780415181648, titled "Quality: A Critical Introduction" | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $72.95 | also contains Quality: A Critical Introduction
Product Description: Modern musicModern music is that which is written in an idiom that came just after the period that any given music-lover was last able to understand. BeethovenBeethoven is regarded as a public company in which a number of people have shares and it is important to know how many shares each of them holds...read more
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9781906042165 | Oval Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Modern musicModern music is that which is written in an idiom that came just after the period that any given music-lover was last able to understand.
9781903096581 | New edition (Oval Books, July 1, 2006), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Be an instant expert on music and bluff your way with classical composure.
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9781906042172 | Oval Books, April 1, 2008, cover price $7.95
Product Description: AnonIt's a pretty safe bet, if an unfamiliar 1940s/50s name crops up in conversation, that you can easily get away with saying: 'Oh, yes. Parker roomed with him for a time.' Even if he didn't, nobody is going to be sure enough to say so...read more
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9781903096987 | Reprint edition (Oval Books, April 1, 2007), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: AnonIt's a pretty safe bet, if an unfamiliar 1940s/50s name crops up in conversation, that you can easily get away with saying: 'Oh, yes.
9781902825922 | Oval Books, March 1, 2003, cover price $6.95
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9781903096505 | 7 revised edition (Oval Books, October 1, 2005), cover price $6.95
Product Description: Native tongueThe true opera buff is staunchly for opera in the original language, knowing full well that it is likely to be twice as tedious to know what is going on as not to know. Opera repertoireThe names of operas should generally be spoken in the original language unless it is too obvious what they mean and familiarity has bred suitable contempt, e...read more
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9781903096598 | Oval Books, October 1, 2005, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Native tongueThe true opera buff is staunchly for opera in the original language, knowing full well that it is likely to be twice as tedious to know what is going on as not to know.
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9781902825533 | Oval Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information--all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
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9781902825915 | Oval Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information--all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
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9781902825540 | Oval Books, July 1, 2002, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information--all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
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9781858334141 | Reprint edition (Bramley, September 1, 1997), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Provides a critical overview and survey of the works of the world's classical composers, including Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, Mozart, and Schumann
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9781853046742 | Reissue edition (Ravette Pub Ltd, October 1, 1996), cover price $5.95
9780517307618 | Crown Pub, June 1, 1971, cover price $1.00
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9780948456763 | Ravette Pub Ltd, October 1, 1996, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: The only thing that can be said in Golf's favor is that it gives plenty of scope to practiced bluffers.
9780822022251 | Centennial Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Club(s)No professional or golf shop proprietor would agree, but all that is needed to play a good round of golf is a putter, a sand-wedge, a 5-iron, and a ball.
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9781853042171 | Ravette Pub Ltd, October 1, 1996, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: A snappy little book containing facts, jargon, and inside information--all that readers need to know to hold their own among the experts.
Product Description: AnonIt's a pretty safe bet, if an unfamiliar 1940s/50s name crops up in conversation, that you can easily get away with saying: 'Oh, yes. Parker roomed with him for a time.' Even if he didn't, nobody is going to be sure enough to say so...read more
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9780948456640 | Ravette Pub Ltd, October 1, 1996, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: AnonIt's a pretty safe bet, if an unfamiliar 1940s/50s name crops up in conversation, that you can easily get away with saying: 'Oh, yes.
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9780517142912 | Random House Value Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $19.99
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9780517102343 | Crescent Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A celebration of the lives and works of the most noted composers of classical music includes more than 170 profiles, their artistic influences, and critical appreciation of their pieces, and features 320 paintings and photographs.
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9781571430007, titled "Bluffer's Guide to Bluffing" | Reprint edition (Centennial Pr, April 1, 1994), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Book by Snodgrass, Mary Ellen, Gammond, Peter
Product Description: The Oxford Companion to Popular Music encompasses in one alphabetic sequence all that is notable within this vast subject, everything from jazz, reggae, blues, and calypso, to Broadway musicals, rock and roll, and country western...read more
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9780193113237 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This companion provides information on people and groups, shows and films, and songs and albums dealing with all forms of Anglo-American and European popular music
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9780192800046 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1993), cover price $19.95 | also contains The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order? | About this edition: The Oxford Companion to Popular Music encompasses in one alphabetic sequence all that is notable within this vast subject, everything from jazz, reggae, blues, and calypso, to Broadway musicals, rock and roll, and country western.
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9780816025640 | 2 rev upd edition (Guinness Superlatives, August 1, 1989), cover price $14.95
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9780711902572 | Omnibus Pr, June 1, 1989, cover price $19.95
Relates the history and development of the orchestra and opera, with profiles of outstanding conductors, composers and singers, and includes a look at chamber music and a survey of the instruments used
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9780517570944 | 2 sub edition (Harmony Books, January 1, 1989), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Relates the history and development of the orchestra and opera, with profiles of outstanding conductors, composers and singers, and includes a look at chamber music and a survey of the instruments used
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9780781203883 | Reprint edition (Reprint Services Corp, May 1, 1988), cover price $59.00
9780403015634 | Reprint edition (Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1977), cover price $79.00
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9780517564929 | Dilithium Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $12.95
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9780851122816 | Guinness Superlatives, December 1, 1986, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Jazz terms, jazz people, jazz events, jazz places, jazz nicknames and more jazz are well explained by Peter Clayton and Peter Gammond.
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9780876665831 | Tfh Pubns Inc, December 1, 1981, cover price $14.95
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