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Alec Harman.
Man and his Music: The Story of Musical Experience in the West. Mediaeval and Early Renaissance Music (up to c.1525).
Published London: Rockliff, 1958.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: the Burleigh Press, Bristol.
Size: 144x223x22mm.
Page count: xii,268pp inc. several text figures and musical samples, plus 7 pages of plates, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: the dustjacket on this copy is yellowed and fairly ragged; foxing to the page edges, and also here and there throughout; some marking throughout, mainly sidelines with occasional small annotations — inked on at least 2 pages, otherwise in pencil.


This item £8.00
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Weight without packaging: 511g.

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Contents: Music in the early Church — Christian chant — the beginnings of part music; Music outside the Church — solo song & dance music; The all-embracing style of the 13th-c.; The new art; Music in the early Renaissance.

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