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IV.

The Standard Symphonies. Their History, their Music, and their Composers.
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THE STANDARD OPERAS. Their Plots, their Music, and their Composers. By
George P. Upton, author of "Woman in Music," etc., etc.

12mo, flexible cloth, yellow edges $1.50
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"Mr. Upton has performed a service that can hardly be too highly
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standard operas, to the number of sixty-four, and bringing them
together in one perfectly arranged volume.... His work is one simply
invaluable to the general reading public. Technicalities are avoided,
the aim being to give to musically uneducated lovers of the opera a
clear understanding of the works they hear. It is description, not
criticism, and calculated to greatly increase the intelligent enjoyment
of music."--_Boston Traveller._

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long-felt want, we know of none which so completely carries out the
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of each of the operas contained in the modern repertory.... There are
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York)._

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THE STANDARD CANTATAS. Their Stories, their Music, and their Composers. A
Handbook. By George P. Upton. 12mo, 367 pages, yellow edges, price,
$1.50; extra gilt, gilt edges, $2.00.

In half calf, gilt