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From: "Tom Fine" <[log in to unmask]>
>I figure this is as good as any group to ask ...
> I'm looking for a concise but complete book that details the history of 
> classical music. I'm not really interested in a guide to recordings or one 
> man's opinions of various works, but rather a chronological history of the 
> development of the music, from the "early music" up well into the 20th 
> century. Again, I'm not interested in a critique or an agenda, but a 
> history and chronology.
>
This reminds me...there is ONE never-compiled discographic work which I 
could
SERIOUSLY use! This is (sort of) a classical-record equivalent to ADBD...in
which one could find discographic details on the many classical-music 
recordings
issued on 78rpm phonorecords from 1890 to "whenever" (compiler's 
choice"...?!

Steven C. Barr