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| Title | Six lectures on harmony |
| Author | sir George Alexander Macfarren |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1877 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 248 pages |
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