Opera
by Hamm, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1966. Discussion of the basic elements that make up the opera: singers, words & music, recitative & aria, duet, trio, quartet & quintet, finale & introduction, the chorus, the orchestra, prelude & overture, dance & pantomime. Hamm was a notable musicologist, the first to pay serious academic attention to American popular music, with two of his books on the subject becoming standards in the field. INSCRIBED by the author on the free endsheet to a colleague at Tulane, Ellsworth Snyder, also mentioned in the preface. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear to book, some bumps & dents, tiny scuffs to rear cover. Text clean; xii, [2], 245 pages; index, b/w photos, musical notation.. Inscribed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0100
- Title
- Opera
- Author
- Hamm, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Allyn and Bacon, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Music, Musicology, Classical Music, Singers
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Inscribed
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- Bumps
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- First Edition
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