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A History of Western Music

by Donald Jay Grout, J. Peter Burkholder, Claude V. Palisca · 1960

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Recognized as one of the finest surveys of Western music in the English language, this distinguished book has enlightened a multitude of music lovers since it first appeared in 1960.

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epic · 1152 pages

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