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Rhythm and tempo : a study in music history
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- Summary
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"This is the first book to trace the history of rhythm and tempo in its entirety."--Inside jacket.
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- Creator
- by Curt Sachs
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Norton, [1953]
- ©1953
- Physical Details
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- 391 pages : music ; 25 cm
- OCLC
- ocm00391538, ocm00391538
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Also issued online.
- Elementary principles -- Beginnings and primitive stage -- the Far East -- Ancient Israel and the beginnings of the eastern church -- The Near and Middle East -- India -- Greece and Rome -- The Early and High Middle Ages -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance : concepts of rhythm and tempo -- The Renaissance : rhythmical styles -- The Baroque -- Le Style Galant and the age of Enlightenment -- Romanticism -- The present