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Grove's Dict. of Music & Musicians, 6-vols.

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“Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Complete 5-Volume Set” with the hard-to-find American Supplemental 6th volume. The acknowledged best source for serious musical research and reference. Covers all matters directly and indirectly connected with music. Contains definitions of musical terms; explanations of the forms in which musical works are constructed as well as of the origin, structure, and successive modifications of instruments; histories and descriptions of societies and institutions; biographies of representative composers, singers, players, and patrons of music. Edited by H. C. Colles. Pub. 1927 by MacMillan & Co. Ltd. (third edition). Vol. 1 has a minor front hinge crack, a small tear at top spine corner, and some loosening of the cover cloth glue in place. The other volumes are very good plus. 6.5 x 9.375. Approx. 4,000 pages. American Supplement (6th volume) edited by Waldo Selden Pratt and Charles N. Boyd. Pub. 1922 by Theodore Presser Company. Amer. Supp. front hinge cracked and a couple of gutter cracks. 6.5 x 9.375. 412 pp

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