The History of Music by Emil Naumann translated by F. Praeger edited by the Rev. Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley, Bart., Mus. Doc., Professor of Music in the Universaty of Oxford.

5 Volumes, special edition, with a Series of Portraits reproduced in Photogravure, and Numerous Illustrations.

Cassell & Company, limited: London, Paris & Melbourne. (no date, c.1880)

This edition,
Being specially prepared for subscription, is not obtained through the general Booksellers.

Decorated blue boards/gilt embossed, Medium octavo over 9x6inches 9"x7".
1332pp with index to final volume, with a series of portraits produced in photogravure and very numerous illustrations to each volume, facsimiles of music and letters.

This five volume set consists of;

Volume 1:
Book 1- The development of music in the classical and pre classical eras.
Book 2- The development of music in the middle ages.

Volume 2:
Book s (continued)- The growth of polyphony from the twelfth to the sixteenth century.
Book 3- History of the tonal art from the time of the renaissance to the century of the rococo.

Volume 3:
Book 3 (continued)- the gradual decline of music with the romance nations, and its rise with the germans.

Volume 4:
Book 4- History of music from the beginning to the eighteenth century to the present time.

Volume 5:
Book 4 (continued)- The influence of the German epoch on Italy and France.