Item #87299 Music and Some Highly Musical People; Containing Brief Chapters on I. A Description of Music. II. The Music of Nature. III. A Glance at the History of Music. IV. The Power, Beauty, and Uses of Music. Following which are given Sketches of the Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race. With Portraits, and an Appendix containing Copies of Music Composed by Colored Men. James Trotter, 0nroe.
Music and Some Highly Musical People; Containing Brief Chapters on I. A Description of Music. II. The Music of Nature. III. A Glance at the History of Music. IV. The Power, Beauty, and Uses of Music. Following which are given Sketches of the Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race. With Portraits, and an Appendix containing Copies of Music Composed by Colored Men.
Music and Some Highly Musical People; Containing Brief Chapters on I. A Description of Music. II. The Music of Nature. III. A Glance at the History of Music. IV. The Power, Beauty, and Uses of Music. Following which are given Sketches of the Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race. With Portraits, and an Appendix containing Copies of Music Composed by Colored Men.
Music and Some Highly Musical People; Containing Brief Chapters on I. A Description of Music. II. The Music of Nature. III. A Glance at the History of Music. IV. The Power, Beauty, and Uses of Music. Following which are given Sketches of the Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race. With Portraits, and an Appendix containing Copies of Music Composed by Colored Men.

Music and Some Highly Musical People; Containing Brief Chapters on I. A Description of Music. II. The Music of Nature. III. A Glance at the History of Music. IV. The Power, Beauty, and Uses of Music. Following which are given Sketches of the Lives of Remarkable Musicians of the Colored Race. With Portraits, and an Appendix containing Copies of Music Composed by Colored Men.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1880. Fourth Thousand. Hardcover. ills, 352, 152p. Original dark blue cloth. 19cm. Two previous owners' inked signatures accompany the private library stamp of the latest owner on the front free endpaper. Page edges soiled. Modest discoloration and some loss of cloth along edges of front cover. Modest chipping at ends of backstrip. Contents sound with some age-toning and foxing. An appealing copy of this important, pioneering work on African American musicians which was first published in 1878. Trotter, an African American, had served in the 55th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War and succeeded Frederick Douglas as Recorder of Deeds in Washington, DC, in 1887. Good. Item #87299

Price: $300.00

Add to Cart Ask a Question
See all items by ,