Description: Very good copy with some rubbing to the cloth at the spine and a trace of edge wear in a very good dust jacket (now protected with Brodart mylar cover) with some very minor edge wear and a bit of offsetting to the interior of the spine not affecting the exterior.
Additional Information: Virgil Thomson (November 25, 1896 – September 30, 1989) was an American composer and critic. He was instrumental in the development of the "American Sound" in classical music. He has been described as a modernist, a neoromantic, a neoclassicist, and a composer of "an Olympian blend of humanity and detachment" whose "expressive voice was always carefully muted" until his late opera Lord Byron which, in contrast to all his previous work, exhibited an emotional content that rises to "moments of real passion".
William Thomson is a musical theorist, composer, historian and former School of Music Dean at USC, who also served the faculties of such renowned colleges as SUNY Buffalo, University of Arizona, Indiana University School of Music, etc.
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