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Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback
- ISBN-10: 039470004X
- ISBN-13: 9780394700045
- Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Pub date: Jul 01, 1984
- In other languages: other languages
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Critical comment(s)/introduction:
Out of a lifetime of firsthand experience with all phases of music, [the author] distilled the vital essences of its story....Agree with him in detail or not, he created a living book of wonderful, swift simplicity about a living and a far from simple subject....he made each word carry its own weigh ... (continue)
Out of a lifetime of firsthand experience with all phases of music, [the author] distilled the vital essences of its story....Agree with him in detail or not, he created a living book of wonderful, swift simplicity about a living and a far from simple subject....he made each word carry its own weight, reduced every statement and definition to its clearest and most easily absorbed form. Few books so happily and exactly live up to their titles.
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