text clean, binding tight, edge wear, NO JACKET, Columbia University Press, 1 volume edition, 1965, 2nd edition, Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: This edition aims to incorporate the results of recent research and to bring the history of opera forward to about 1960. The main divisions are chronological and based primarily on considerations of musical style. Revisions, more or less extensive, have been made in all chapters; a few judgments have been revised; new illustrations and musical examples have been provided.