Time-Life complete set Story/Concerts of Great Music

$

265

Time-Life Records issued this collection The Story and Concerts of Great Music

(two  11-volume box sets  = 22 volumens; 99 records,) through 1966-1968.

While, you will see individual volumes prevalent on e-bay, you are bidding on both 11-volume sets in their enirety.

Now 40 years later, the music in the entire series is as timeless  and as great as ever, and stand as a once-in-a lifetime presentation of the most listenable history of orchestral music from the renaissance to the twentieth centure.

This collection is paramount to an at-home degree in Music Education, as well as  a world history as seen through the eyes of its musicians and artists.

            11 BOX SETS The Story of Great Music

Each box set contains four LP records and highly informative Listeners Guide to the Repertoire, as well as a history to the music of that period, its composers and music in the booklet Story of Great Music .

            11 BOX SETS Concerts of Great Music

Each box set contains five LP records and highly informative history to the music of that period, its composers and music in the booklet Concerts of Great Music .

Story and Concerts have the same color box covers with similar titles, but each with different fine art representations of that period of music.

Story/Concerts From the Renaissance

            Byrd; Frescobaldo; Gabrieli; Monteverdi; and others.

Story/Concerts The Baroque Era

            Bach; Handel; Purcell; Teleman, Vivaldi; and others.

Story/Concerts The Age of Elegance

            Beethoven; Boccherini; Haydn; Gluck; and Mozart.

Story/Concerts The Age of Revolution

            Beethoven; Rossini; Schubert; and Weber

Story/Concerts The Romantic Era

Berlioz; Chopin; Liszt; Mendelssohn; Schumann; and others.

Story/Concerts The Opulent Era

            Brahms; Offenbach; Saint-Saens; Tchaikovsky, and others.

Story/Concerts Slavic Traditions

            Dvorak; Moussorgksy; Rimsky-Korsakov; Smetana; and others.

Story/Concerts The Spanish Style

            `Albeniz; Debussy; Falla; Granados; Lalo; Ravel; Rodrigo; and others.

Story/Concerts Prelude to Modern Music

            Debussy; Mahler; Puccini; Rachmaninoff; Ravel; and others.

Story/Concerts The Early Twentieth Century

            Bartok; Gershwin; Prokofiev; Stravinsky; Villa-Lobos; and others.

Story/Concerts The Music of Today

            Bernstein; Copland; Hindemith; Shostokovich; and others

The box sets are in good shape, a few book shelf scruffs, but not bad for 40 years, and they have been in boxed storage for the last 15 years. Some sets were played more than others, but the records are still in very good condition. 

For the winning bid that betters my reserve price, I will include yet another mystery vintage box set of another Concert of Great Music by a solo artist you know and appreciate.

Now 40 years later, the music in the entire series is as timeless  and as great as ever, stands as a once-in-a lifetime presentation of the most listenable history of orchestral music from the renaissance to the twentieth centure.

Considering the phenomenal scope of music and written material in the illustrated booklets and listening guides, this collection is paramount to an at-home college  Humanities course and Music Appreciation as well as the history as seen through the eyes of its musicians and artists.

            11 BOX SETS The Story of Great Music

Each box set contains four LP records and highly informative Listeners Guide to the Repertoire, as well as a history to the music of that period, its composers and music in the booklet Story of Great Music .

            11 BOX SETS Concerts of Great Music

Each box set contains five LP records and highly informative history to the music of that period, its composers and music in the booklet Concerts of Great Music .

Story and Concerts have the same color box covers with similar titles, but each with different fine art representations of that period of music.

Story/Concerts From the Renaissance

            Byrd; Frescobaldo; Gabrieli; Monteverdi; and others.

Story/Concerts The Baroque Era

            Bach; Handel; Purcell; Teleman, Vivaldi; and others.

Story/Concerts The Age of Elegance

            Beethoven; Boccherini; Haydn; Gluck; and Mozart.

Story/Concerts The Age of Revolution

            Beethoven; Rossini; Schubert; and Weber

Story/Concerts The Romantic Era

Berlioz; Chopin; Liszt; Mendelssohn; Schumann; and others.

Story/Concerts The Opulent Era

            Brahms; Offenbach; Saint-Saens; Tchaikovsky, and others.

Story/Concerts Slavic Traditions

            Dvorak; Moussorgksy; Rimsky-Korsakov; Smetana; and others.

Story/Concerts The Spanish Style

            `Albeniz; Debussy; Falla; Granados; Lalo; Ravel; Rodrigo; and others.

Story/Concerts Prelude to Modern Music

            Debussy; Mahler; Puccini; Rachmaninoff; Ravel; and others.

Story/Concerts The Early Twentieth Century

            Bartok; Gershwin; Prokofiev; Stravinsky; Villa-Lobos; and others.

Story/Concerts The Music of Today

            Bernstein; Copland; Hindemith; Shostokovich; and others

The box sets are in good shape, a few book shelf scruffs, but not bad for 40 years, and they have been in boxed storage for the last 15 years. Some sets were played more than others, but the records are still in very good condition. 

For the winning bid that betters my reserve price, I will include yet another mystery vintage box set of another Concert of Great Music by a solo artist you know and appreciate.

 Photos are representative and do not show the sets from all musical eras in the series.

Shipping weight is approximately 75 lbs, and will ship well packaged in two large boxes.

I will be glad to answer any questions.