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Product details
- ISBN 9780810846746
- Weight: 708g
- Dimensions: 188 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2003
- Publisher: Scarecrow Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Music Melting Round: A History of Music in the United States provides a colorful introduction for students and nonspecialists alike to the scope of musical styles and venues in America from colonial to contemporary times. Covering all aspects of music, including classical, ragtime, blues, jazz, popular, minstrel shows, and music on radio and television and in film, the text also contains a variety of photographs and illustrations, three time lines presenting highlights in American history, the arts, and music, an appendix of basic musical concepts, a glossary, and two indexes.
Cloth edition 1-880157-17-9 previously published in 1995 by Ardsley House.
Instructor's Manual 1-880157-18-7 available upon request.
Edith Borroff (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a prominent musicologist and composer. She has taught at several universities and was professor of music at the State University of New York (Binghamton) for almost twenty years. Among her other books are The Music of the Baroque (1978), Music in Europe and the United States: A History (1990), and American Opera: A Checklist (1992).
