Ed. Harold Barlow
What is that tune? Where does it come from? The answers- for anyone who can hum a melody or tap it out on the piano - are in this dictionary. It contains over 8,000 tunes and themes from virtually all the most important operas, operettas, oratorios, cantatas, and songs in the classical repertoire. The music and words of each melody are so arranged that the reader can quickly: Identify the source of any melody - even if only a few bars are remembered. Find the tune of almost every wellknown song or vocal composition. There is nothing else quite like this book. It is a basic source book of incalculable value to all musicians and music lovers. "... the comprehensiveness is astonishing. In all there are 440 pages of clearly printed melodic incipits and there is an index of first lines." - The Tunes Literary Supplement.
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