Front cover says:

• Clear, precise, up-to-date
• Cross-indexed, illustrated
• Extemded articles for major entries
• Important abbreviations, pitch names, and musical symbols are included.
• This comprehensive, wide-ranging new dictionary covers all musical periods: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroquie, Classial, Romantic, Modern.

Back cover says:

Dictionary of Music has been compiled to assist the music lover and the student of music to understand better the musical heritage of the Western world. It presents in compact fashion information regarding the history of Western music, the constitution of its more important forms, biographies of the greatest composers, as well as accounts of compositional techniques, performance media and acuostic phenomena, together with brief definitions of basic terms in performance and theory.

This book is separated inside, with no loose or lost pages. Seems the pages on either side of the break are tight, but it is still unpostable. I will send this to the first person asking for it and ordering 1 book from my shelf to go with it.