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The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism
by Haskell, Harry
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0571161456
- ISBN 13
- 9780571161454
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1995 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. xvii (i), 398. First Edition, 1995. Not Price Clipped. Pristine, no wear. No markings, tight binding, clean, white and bright. 6.25" x 9.5". Blue cloth with white lettering to spine. Illustrated dj in acetate protector. "Modern criticism started in the eighteenth century when the rationalism of the Enlightenment fostered the growth of a genuinely critical spirit that transformed writing about music from a narrowly scholastic discipline into a broadly humanistic one." from the jacket flap..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005715
- Title
- The Attentive Listener: Three Centuries of Music Criticism
- Author
- Haskell, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571161456
- ISBN 13
- 9780571161454
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- MUSIC MODERN CRITICISM CLASSICAL MUSIC ESSAYS HISTORY AND CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- MUSIC;
- Size
- Large Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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