Brahms Album Band II: Ausgabe fur Tierfere Stimme
New York: Edition Peters. No. 3202b. Softcover. Green wraps with black lettering; 177 pp. with no illustrations. Thirty-seven songs with piano accompaniment, all by Johannes Brahms. More
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Ernest Bloch: Scores for Israel, Deux Psaumes and Four Episodes for Chamber Orchestra
New York: Schirmer, 1925 circa. Hardbound. Three works bound together in blue cloth. Works not originally published together. Date for Israel is 1925. Deux Psaumes is of the same vintage. Four Episodes published by C.C. Birchard. All three contain the full scores/instrumentations the conductor would need to conduct the pieces..... More
The Hawley Collection of Violins, with a History of their Makers and A Brief Review of The Evolution and Decline of The Art of Violin-Making in Italy 1540-1800
Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. Hardbound. Publishers boards and red cloth spine with remnants of paper label on spine. 105 pp. 36 plates with tissue guards, most of them color. Introduction written by Theodore Thomas. Sketch of Royal De Forest Hawley written by Albert H. Pitkin. These are followed by..... More
I Cento Anni Della Casa Curci 1860-1960
Milan: Edizioni Curci, 1960. Hardcover. Blue cloth with gilt lettering at spine and on front cover; Very discolored plain white slipcase; 72 pp. plus approx. 70 pp. of plates; 9 color and bw figures; 10 tipped-in color plates; 33 color engravings of sheet music. Text in Italian; About the musicians..... More
The Illustrated Dictionary of the Joseon Royal Culture: Court Music and Dances = Wangsil munhwa togam: kungjung angmu
Seoul: Kungnip Kogung Pangmulgwan, 2014. Hardcover. Turquoise and decorated cloth, gilt letters on spine and front cover, 455 pp., profusely illus. in BW and line drawings, with some color illus. Main text is in Korean, with introduction also in English. Considers well the music and dance popular during the Joseon..... More
J.S. Bach - 371 Four-Part Chorales
New York: Associated Music Publishers, n/d. Softcover. Blue wraps with black lettering; 178 pp. Piano parts; very easy to read - not Kalmus! More
JOE WEBER PRESENTS A ROMANTIC COMIC OPERA, HEARTS OF ERIN, Book and Lyrics by Henry Blossom, Music by Victor Herbert.[
New York: M. Witmark & Sons, 1907. Hardbound. Green library buckram. 165 pp. All scores. This copy has an inked stamp signature of Victor Herbert on the title page for some reason. More
The Last Judgment: An Oratorio Composed by Louis Spohr
London: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1892. Hardcover. Brown boards with maroon cloth spine and red lettering; 106 pp. with no illustrations. Text in English; with voice parts and score as a piano reduction. More
Le Nozze di Figaro (Program from 1990 Spoleto, Italy Festival)
Spoleto, Italy: 33rd Festival dei Due Mondi, 1990. Softcover. Cream rag wraps with color illustration and black lettering; unpaginated with approx. 66 pp. and numerous illustrations. Text in Italian, with the plot also in English; with the usual lists and photos - cast, musicians, synopsis, etc.; with numerous advertisements. More
List of American Orchestral Works Recommended by WPA Project Conductors: July 1941
Washington, DC: Work Projects Administration, 1941. Hardbound. Dark green boards with gilt lettering on spine, [6] 52pp, no illustrations. A detailed list of compostions recommended by the WPA, with the composers listed in alpahabetical order. Each piece has the composer, title of composition, playing time, who recommended it, and a...... More
Liszt, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Tschaikovsky - Music Transcribed for Two Pianos
USA: Various. Hardbound. Maroon cloth library binding with gold lettering; 5 pieces bound together in one volume. Includes Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Busoni arrangement); Mendelssohn; Concerto #2 in d minor for Piano, Op. 40 and Rondo Brilliante, Op. 29; Mozart: Lodron Concerto in F Major, K. 242, transcribed for two pianos;..... More
Music in Colonial Massachusetts, 1630-1820; I: Music in Public Places
Boston, MA: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1980. Hardcover. Blue cloth/brown DJ. 404 pp. Numerous bw plates. This is volume 1 of a 2-volume set that together will contain 9 papers delivered at a conference on colonial music held by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. This volume concentrates on music in..... More
Piano Music
Hardbound. Red cloth library binding with gold lettering; four works bound together. Works include Bartok Piano Sonata (1926), published by Boosey & Hawkes with 1939 copyright; Granados Spanish Dances for Piano Nos. 1-12, Opus 5, published in 1941 by Edward Marks; Scriabin Concerto for Piano, Opus 20, published in Moscow..... More
Schnitzelbank
New York: Woolly Whale, 1938. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Red stilk cloth stamped with silver over boards. Unpaginated [125] with French fold pages. Profusely illustrated. The old German folk song about the wooden horse carpenters use, illustrated here by Fritz Kredel. Explanatory text in English, but the song itself is in..... More
Three Compositions for Piano Solos: Volume IV
Hillsdale, New York: Mobart Music Publications, 1976. Softcover. Beige and black wraps with black lettering; 31 pp. Compositions by David Winkler, George Edwards, and Thomas James; pieces are for the more advanced player. More
The Age of Humanism 1540-1630
London: Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardbound. Blue cloth with gold lettering; 978 pp. with 9 bw plates and 402 musical figures. Volume 4 in The New Oxford History of Music series; a completely in-depth study of the French Chanson, 16th-century madrigals, German secular song, solo song and cantata, continental Latin..... More
Rhythmic Gesture in Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro & Don Giovanni
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. Hardcover. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering; beige and white dj, bw illustration and lettering, mylar cover; xii, 396 pp; bw illustrations and music. Contents: Introduction : Expression, imitation, and the musical topos -- Part one : Mozart's rhythmic topoi -- The shapes of..... More
The Letters of Mozart & His Family (3 Volumes)
London: Macmillan and Co., 1938. Hardcover. All volumes, navy blue cloth with gilt lettering; continuous numbering: Vol. I - pp. i to xxxix and 1 to 456; Vol. II - pp. i to xix and 457 to 1055; Vol. III - i to xxvii and 1056 to 1560. Each volume..... More
Non Arguta Sonant Tenui Psalteria Chorda: L'arpa dall'antichita preclassica all'alto Medioevo
Bologna, Italy: Ut Orpheus, 2004. Softcover. Brown wraps with French flaps. 187 pp. BW illustrations. In Italian. History of the harp. More
French Baroque Music From Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1997. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dj, mylar cover; 586 pp; bw illustrations. James R. Anthony's French Baroque Music, originally published in 1974, was the first definitive study of French music of the Baroque era and remains the only comprehensive survey..... More
The Music of the Modern World Illustrated in the Lives and Works of the Greatest Modern Musicians and in Reproductions of Famous Paintings, Etc. (In Two Volumes)
NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. Hardcover. Black library buckram. Vol I: Text (236 pp + 25 tipped-in color and 25 full page bw plates, with additional bw textual illustrations). Vol II: Music (348 pp with bw illustrations and sheet music). More
Songs for the Bride: Wedding Rites of Rural India
New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Magenta cloth with gilt lettering on spine. White dust jacket with color illustration, black lettering. xl; 181 + [7] pp. 13 BW plates. Part of the Studies in Oriental Culture, Number 20. A discussion of the marriage ritual, marriage songs, and songs of..... More
Mozart: I - La Vita. II - Le Opere Teatrali
Milano: Edizioni Della Scala, 1955. Softcover. Cream card wraps with bw illustration and black decorative lettering; matching dj; 322 pp. with 40 bw illustrations. Text in Italian; the first part (79 pp.) is about Mozart's life; the second about his operatic works, with contributions by 7 different authors; includes a...... More