Outline history of music and musical theory

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  • Reference
      GB 247 MS Farmer 434
  • Dates of Creation
      1939
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      Bound vol. [2], 8, 2783-2808, [20]p. 38 cm. Red buckram binding; title in gold on spine.

Scope and Content

An outline history of music and musical theory. By Henry George Farmer. Offprint from: A survey of Persian art, ed. Arthur Upham Pope, vol. 3 (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), Section XV: Music, Chapter 68, pp 2783-2804.
Includes title-page, description and contents of complete work, with part of chapter 69: The character of Persian music, by Phyllis Ackerman (pp 2805-2808).
Author's bound copy, with corrections and annotations.
Binder's title: Survey of Persian art.
34 additional items inserted by Farmerand separately catalogued.

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