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Ballads Without Words

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James Parakilas explores the ballad form and shows how composers of instrumental ballades evoked that structure by purely musical means. All the well-known masterpieces are analyzed, as well as many neglected examples.

358 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1992

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