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9780460031554 | Revised edition (J M Dent & Sons Ltd, June 1, 1975), cover price $17.95

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9780198164654 | 3 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 1, 2001), cover price $41.95
9780822607168 | Littlefield Adams, June 1, 1975, cover price $7.95

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Product Description: Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780460031776 | Rev sub edition (J M Dent & Sons Ltd, May 1, 1980), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses.

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9780198165460 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 8, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses.

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9780899170169 | 3 sub edition (Alfred Pub Co, June 1, 1980), cover price $13.95

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This, the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters, makes every known letter available in English tra....

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9780198164142 | Rev sub edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1995), cover price $91.00
9780521235914 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1980, cover price $191.00 | About this edition: This, the fullest edition of Monteverdi's letters, makes every known letter available in English tra.

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Product Description: Now includes a chapter on French and English sacred music in the 17th and 18th century. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780130559548 | 2nd edition (Prentice Hall Ptr, January 1, 1981), cover price $21.33 | About this edition: Now includes a chapter on French and English sacred music in the 17th and 18th century.

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9780130584960 | 3 sub edition (Prentice Hall, March 1, 1991), cover price $130.60 | About this edition: Now includes a chapter on French and English sacred music in the 17th and 18th century.

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9780918728234 | Pendragon Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $83.00

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9780691027081 | Revised edition (Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1983), cover price $87.00

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Product Description: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.The New Grove composer biographies have been selected from the dictionary to bring the finest of the biographies to a wider audience...read more

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9780393016901 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1984, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Offers profiles of Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Corelli, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, discusses their major works, and looks at each composer's style

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9780393303605 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is the most up-to-date body of musical knowledge ever gathered together.
9780393300949 | W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | also contains Alfred's Ipa Made Easy: A Guidebook for the International Phonetic Alphabet | About this edition: Offers profiles of Monteverdi, Frescobaldi, Cavalli, Corelli, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, discusses their major works, and looks at each composer's style

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Product Description: The Fables of La Fontaine enjoyed universal success from their first appearance in 1668. Fifty years later a collection of songs was published in Paris based on some of these tales set to vaudeville tunes and other simple airs. For th is new edition of these unknown settings the author has written an extensive historical introduction, translated all the texts into English, and provided invaluable suggestions on performance practice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780918728265 | Pendragon Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The Fables of La Fontaine enjoyed universal success from their first appearance in 1668.

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9780193152496 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1986, cover price $29.95

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Product Description: The organ books and part-books used in Durham Cathedral over the centuries form the greatest part of this collection, those from the early seventeenth century being particularly well known and of special interest to music scholars and historians...read more

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9780199201556 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 30, 1986, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The organ books and part-books used in Durham Cathedral over the centuries form the greatest part of this collection, those from the early seventeenth century being particularly well known and of special interest to music scholars and historians.

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Product Description: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) occupies a special place in the history of music as the first significant European composer who concentrated his major creative efforts into the realm of instrumental music. In this collection of papers based on the Quadricentennial Frescobaldi Studies Conference, sixteen American and European specialists examine important aspects of the life and works of this composer and of his role in the creation of a new musical language of the Baroque...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alexander Silbiger (editor)

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9780822307112 | Duke Univ Pr, May 1, 1987, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) occupies a special place in the history of music as the first significant European composer who concentrated his major creative efforts into the realm of instrumental music.

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Product Description: The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music. In this volume Lorenzo Bianconi considers the radical developments of the century as long-lived musical traditions died out and others were created in response to new social functions...read more

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9780521262903 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1988, cover price $83.99 | About this edition: The seventeenth century was a period of profound change in the history of music.

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9780521269155 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $54.99

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9781580462532 | Har/cdr re edition (Univ of Rochester Pr, July 20, 2008), cover price $80.00
9780028730806 | Gale / Cengage Learning, October 1, 1987, cover price $34.95

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Product Description: For performers and audiences to understand music of earlier times, they must learn to comprehend the languages and messages of the past. In these essays, Nikolaus Harnoncourt summarizes his views arising from years devoted to the performance of early music, discussing some of the problems of historical interpretation...read more

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9780931340055 | Amadeus Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Like every art form, music is linked to a particular time; it is the living expression of its own period and can be completely understood only by its contemporaries.

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9780931340918 | Amadeus Pr, August 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: For performers and audiences to understand music of earlier times, they must learn to comprehend the languages and messages of the past.

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Product Description: First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780824045128 | Routledge, March 1, 1989, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1989.

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