Author: SHORE, BERNARD
Title: Sixteen Symphonies
Description: London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1949, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold titles on beige cloth boards which has a bump to one corner tip but clean with no wear. Internally there is a contemporary inscription and date else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is price clipped with chipping and wear with repaired closed tears. Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. The author writes with intimate knowledge of 16 of the world's greatest symphonic masterpieces and their composers, analysing the structural development of each symphony without using technical terms and giving musical illustrations for the most important themes and some of the more haunting melodies played by different sections of the orchestra. In his short essays on the composers he maintains a light informal touch giving brief biographical details. 16 portraits. NOT EX LIB C3C. Very Good/Fair.

Keywords: Symphonic Masterpieces, Analysis of the Symphony


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