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Contents
ELEMENTS | 1 |
VOICES AND INSTRUMENTS | 8 |
JMUSIC NOTATION | 35 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Music: An Appreciation Music: An Appreciation, Roger Kamien, ISBN 0079131174, 9780079131171 |
| Author | Roger Kamien |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0079131174, 9780079131171 |
| Length | 454 pages |
| Subjects | › Music / History & Criticism |
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