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1962 October House, Inc. paperback. 180 pages. rated acceptable condition. This search into the development of melody, its origins, character, and structure, covers a wide cultural and geographical field. It takes in Gregorian plainchant, English lute songs, Bach dances, Mozart arias, theatre tunes, and a host of traditional folk songs from the Tyrol to New Guinea, each illustrated with examples of tune. Imogen Holst runs the gamut from the complicated, rapidly changing, exciting rhyt
