The history of music in sound
By: general editor: Gerald Abraham.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Music -- History and criticism
Other titles: New Oxford history of Music
Notes: Contents in each vol. refer to 78 rpm. phonodiscs.  Contents in v. 4, 8-10 refer also to 33-1/3 rpm.

Programme notes to a series of phonodiscs bearing the same title, which, in turn, are a "companion to the New Oxford history of music." - Cf. Foreword in each vol.

SCAR volumes lacking phonodiscs.
Table of contents: value: v. 1. Ancient and oriental music / edited by Egon Wellesz; value: v. 2. Early mediaeval music up to 1300 / edited by Dom Anselm Hughes; value: v. 3. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, c.1300-1540 / edited by Dom Anselm Hughes; value: v. 4. The age of humanism (1540-1630) / edited by J. A. Westrup; value: v. 5. Opera and church music (1630-1750) / edited by J. A. Westrup; value: v. 6. The growth of instrumental music (1630-1750) / edited by J. A. Westrup; value: v. 7. The symphonic outlook (1750-90) / edited by Egon Wellesz; value: v. 8. The age of Beethoven (1790-1830) / edited by G. Abraham; value: v. 9. Romanticism (1830-90) / edited by G. Abraham; value: v. 10. Modern music (1890-1950) / edited by G. Abraham.