The Oxford History of English Music: Volume 1
Subtitle: From the Beginnings to c.1715 (Oxford History of English Music)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: January 11, 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 730
ISBN-13: 9780198161295
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.