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Heinrich Glarean, Dodekachordon Wolfgang Caspar Printz, Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Kling-Kunst
Wolfgang Caspar Printz
Historische Beschreibung der
edelen Sing- und Kling-Kunst		 Sir John Hawkins. A general history of the science and practice of music Charles Burney, A General History of Music: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Period

Charles Burney
A General History of Music:
From the Earliest Ages to the
Present Period

 
Heinrich Glarean Dodekachordon

 

   

 Sir John Hawkins
A General History
of the Science and
Practice of Music
     

 
Raphael Georg Kiesewetter, Geschichte der europaeisch-abendlaendischen oder unsrer heutigen Musik François-Joseph Fétis François-Joseph Fétis, Histoire générale de la musique depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu’à nos jours François-Joseph Fétis
Histoire générale de la
musique depuis les temps
les plus anciens jusqu’à nos jours		            August Wilhelm Ambros, Geschichte der MusikAugust Wilhelm Ambros
Geschichte der Musik

 

 Raphael Georg Kiesewetter
Geschichte der europaeisch-abendlaendischen
oder unsrer heutigen Musik

 

 Engraving of
François-Joseph Fétis

 

  
     

 

 
John Mainwaring, Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel

[John Mainwaring]
Memoirs of the Life of the Late
George Frederic Handel

Johann Nicolaus Forkel, portrait Johann Nicolaus Forkel, Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke

Johann Nicolaus Forkel
Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs
Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke

Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, Biographie W.A. Mozarts

     Georg Nikolaus von Nissen
     Biographie W.A. Mozarts

 

 Engraving of
Johann Nicolaus Forkel
     

 

 
Giuseppe Baini, Memorie storico-critiche della vita e delle opere di Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Giuseppe Baini
Memorie storico-critiche
della vita e delle opere di
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Sir George Grove , A Dictionary of Music and MusiciansSir George Grove , A Dictionary of Music and Musicians Horatio Parker, “Successors of Palestrina to Bach”

   Sir George Grove (ed.) A Dictionary of Music and Musicians

 

 Horatio Parker
“Successors of Palestrina to Bach”
     

 

 
Waldo Selden Pratt, “On Behalf of Musicology” Musical Quarterly Donald Jay Grout, A History of Western Music
Donald Jay Grout
A History of Western Music 		Claude Palisca, E-mail to Miriam Whaples concerning A History of Western Music

Claude Palisca
E-mail to Miriam Whaples
concerning
A History of
Western Music

 Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca, Chinese translation of A History of Western Music

Waldo Selden Pratt
“On Behalf of Musicology”
Musical Quarterly

 

 Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca
Chinese translation of
A History of Western Music
     

 

 
US News & World Report Amazon -- Category Best Seller Award for Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca A History of Western Music

Amazon.com
Category Best Seller Award for Donald Jay Grout and Claude V. Palisca
A History of Western Music

   

US News & World Report
April 16, 1984 (Vol. 96)

    

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