The music of the Sumerians and their immediate successors : the Babylonians and Assyrians / Francis W. Galpin
1972, Fine Facsimile Reprint. Baden-Baden : Verlag Valentin Koerner. Finely bound in modern gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #232309
Physical description: xii,110p,9p of plates : ill ; music ; 23cm. Notes: "References and notes": p87-98. Includes index. First published: Cambridge University Press, 1936. "Described and illustrated from original sources with 12 plates, 6 pages music, cuneiform texts, and figures." - t.p. Contents: Includes"a Sumerian hymn on the creation of man, with harp accompaniment of the second millennium B. C.": p[99]-[104] Subject: Music, Sumerian - Music, Assyro-Babylonian - Music, To 500 - History and criticism. History and criticism-Ancient - Assyria and Egypt. Series: Collection d'Études Musicologiques ; Sammlung musikwissen -schaftlicher Abhandlungen (Strassburg) Bd ; 33. Genre: Illustrated.
Price: €40.00