Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Editor: Geoffrey Hindley. Reprint 1974. S/C. 576 pp.

For the music lover.

Comprehensive and informative, starting at the music of the oral traditions to the music in the modern world. Chapters on inter alia African music, the music of the Far East and of the Arab world, European folk music, early Christian music, the age of polyphony, the world of Italian opera, the world of Bach, the Romantics, the age of Beethoven, the music of Wagner and the world of jazz. With many colour and black and white photographs.

First English-language edition published 1971 by the Hamlyn Publishing Group, London. This is the reprint of 1974. Condition: Book good. Softcover has rub marks and wear and tear at edges and corners. No jacket. A large, heavy book weighing 1,5 kg.