Oxford History of English Music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: October 1999
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1344
ISBN-13: 9780198167129
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Music; Reference works
First sentence: WHEN during the course of the fifth century Britain was first colonized by Germanic peoples in appreciable numbers, they brought with them a long-standing tradition of sung narrative poetry, which according to Tacitus was their only record of the past.