Results for: Music
Primera Conferencia Interamericana de Etnomusicologia. Cartagena de Indias, Columbia, 24 - 28 de Febrero de 1963 [ First Inter-American Conference on Ethnomusicology ].
Washington DC: Union Panamericana, 1965.
Quarto (oversized). Soem wear to edges and corners of covers. Covers have one longer closed tear at rear and a much smaller one at to front. Some creases to pages. 224 p. w/ music notation, illustrations. Articles are in Spanish or English. An early conference on South American and Latin American ethnomusicology, discussing both the area of study and particular research in different regions or with different groups.
Price: $35.00
Music for Silent Films, 1894-1929: A Guide.
Anderson, Gillian B., compiler. Foreword by Eileen Bowser.
Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1988.
Good quarto-sized hardcover in black cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Light scuffing to covers. Tear in binding in gutter of spine on lower edge of back cover near heel of spine. Boards are slightly bowed. Errata sheet taped to front pastedown endpaper. Page edges are lightly browned. 182 pages with illustrations, 6 appendices (1. microfilm contents and reel numbers-Library of Congress, 2. microfilm and reel numbers-Museum of Modern Art Collection, 3. film scores in the Arthur Kleiner Collection, 4. cue sheets for silent films at the George Eastman House, 5. silent film scores at the New York Public Library music Division, 6. silent film scores at the Federation Internationale des Archives du Film), bibliography, and index.
Price: $100.00
Storia Dell'Accademia Filarmonica Romana.
Arrigo Quattrocchi.
Rome: 1991.
Good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated boards without dust jacket. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and upper corners of panels with slight crack/tear on upper corner of front cover. Shallow scratch on front cover with scuffing to covers. 399 pages with illustrations, footnotes, appendix, and index. text of this work is in Italian.
Price: $40.00
Franco Corelli : A Man, A Voice.
Boagno, Marina, with Gilberto Starone. Translated by Teresa Brentegani and Samuel Chase.
Dallas: Baskerville Publishers, 1996.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and some rubbing with a few slight tears. Cd is included in pocket on front pastedown endpaper. 321 pages with illustrations, endnotes, repertory, chronology, discography, bibliography, and index.
Price: $30.00
European and American Wind and Percussion Instruments : Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, University of Michigan.
Borders, James M.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1988..
First edition. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear along edges of boards. Dj has wear along edges with few minor nicks and tiny tears, slight browning along upper edge of covers and some light scuffing. 171 pages with illustrations, bibliography and indices.
Price: $18.00
Chaliapin : A Critical Biography.
Borovsky, Victor.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers, 1988.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Remaains of a sticker on front inner flap of dj. 630 pages with illustrations, discography, notes, and index. A bography of the noted Russian opera singer Fedor Chaliapin (d. 1938).
Price: $20.00
The Sociology and History of American Music and Dance, 1920-1968: Toward a Theory of Popular Culture.
Braun, D. Duane.
Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Publishers, 1969.
Good trade paperback. Wear and rubbing to edges of covers with some scuffing. Corners have some light creasing and slight tear on head of spine. 165 pages with notes and tables.
Price: $18.00
Jazz from the Beginning.
Bushell, Garvin,and Mark Tucker. Introduction by Lawrence Gushee.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1988.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with some scuffing to covers. 198 pages with illustrations, notes, 2 appendices (1. Garvin Bushell discography, 2. glossary of musicians and performers), and index.
Price: $25.00
The History of Dance.
Clarke, Mary, and Clement Crisp.
New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 1981.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Wear to edges of boards with bumping to heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with some minor tears and nicks along with some scuffing to covers. Light grey stain on page 157. Page edges are lightly foxed. 256 pages with illustrations, appendix, endnotes, bibliography, and index. A survey of dancing from primitive rituals to modern musicals.
Price: $20.00
The British Traditional Ballad in North America.
Coffin, Tristram P.
Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1950.
Octavo. Wear to edges of boards, esp. to head and heel of spine with loss of cloth. Slight wear to endpapers. Spot on foredge. and a darker one at bottom edge of textblock. 188 p. w/indexes, general bibliography, and a critical bibliography of some 130+ pages.
Price: $35.00
Concert and Opera Singers : A Bibliography of Biographical Materials.
Cowden, Robert H.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with some minor scuffing to covers including brown stainmark in spine's gutter of back cover. 279 pages with 2 appendices and an index.
Price: $20.00
Chuck Berry: Rock 'N' Roll Music. Second Edition.
DeWitt, Howard A. Assistance from Morten Reff.
Ann Arbor: The Pierian Press, 1985.
Very good octavo hardcover in glossy illustrated covers without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. 291 pages with illustrations, appendices, discographies, and index. A detailed look at the life and music of Chuck Berry.
Price: $30.00
Orgel und Orgelmusik Heute : Versuch Einer Analyse. Bericht uber das Erste Colloquium der Walcker-Stiftung fur Orgelwissenschaftliche Forschung 25.-27. Januar 1968 auf dem Thurner im Schwarzwald.
Eggebrecht, Hans Heinrich, editor, with Klaus-Jurgen Sachs and Christoph Stroux.
Stuttgart: 1968.
Good octavo hardcover in orange library binding without dust jacket. Ex-library with many of the marks, flaws, and stamps associated with that condition including call number on spine, many stamps on front endpapers, and due date paper on rear free endpaper. Minor wear to edges of covers with some scuffing. Pencil underlining on title page. 203 pages with notes. Text of this work is in German.
Price: $45.00
Titta Ruffo : An Anthology.
Farkas, Andrew, editor.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine and slight scuffing to covers. 289 pages with illustrations, bibliography, 5 appendices (1. chronology of public performances, 2. repertory, 3. theaters, 4. discography, 5. interview: The Szinhazi Elet Court of Justice, and index. A collection of essays on one of the greatest baritones of his age.
Price: $50.00
Caruso on Records : Pitch, Speed, Comments.
Favia-Artsay, Aida.
Valhalla, NY: Historic Record, 1965..
First edition. Good octavo hardcover in green cloth with poor illustrated dust jacket. Embossed profile of Caruso on front board. Slight wear to edges and corners. Heavy suffing and rubbing to boards. Spine lettering slightly faded. Dj has a large hole and a much smaller one in the middle of he back cover, as well as scuffing on both front and back. 218 p. w/mausical notations and 2 Caruso Stroboscopes (60 cps and 50 cps) laid in, with spots on back where they had once been lightly glued into the book. A scarce, classic critical study and discography of Caruso by a noted scholar.
Price: $120.00
The Red Shoes Ballet : A Critical Study.
Gibbon, Mark.
London: Saturn Press, 1948.
Quarto-sized. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj is worn and has many tears and much chipping along edges with an inch high chip missing from heel of spine. Dj is browned along spine and scuffed on covers. 95 pages with illustrations and some footnotes.
Price: $30.00
America's Instrument : The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century.
Gura, Philip F., and James F. Bollman.
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear and slight rubbing to edges of boards with minor scuffing to covers. 303 pages with illustrations, endnotes, glossary, selected bibliography, and index. An interesting study of banjos: their making, marketing, and music in nineteenth-century America.
Price: $30.00
Oper in Hannover : 300 Jahre Wandel im Musiktheater einer Stadt.
Hammer, Sabine.
Hannover: Schlutersche, 1990.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges with a few nicks and one 2 inch tear on upper edge of back cover and some light scuffing to covers. Bookplate of previous owner on front pastedown endpaper. 208 pages with illustrations and indices.
Price: $20.00
Organologia del Folklore Chileno.
Henriquez, Alejandro.
Valparaiso: Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaiso, 1973.
Fair softcover in illustratedwrapper. Wear and rubbing to edges of covers with creasing on cornersand a tear/heavy rubbing on lower edge of back cover where a price sticker was removed by previous owner. Some scuffing to covers as well. Errata sheet laid in. Upper corners of page 87 to rear free endpaper are creased. 107 pages with illustrations, notes, and bibliography.
Price: $30.00
A Jussi Bjorling Phonography : A Comprehensive List of All types of Recordings.
Henrysson, Harald, and Jack W. Porter.
Stockholm: Svenskt Musikhistoriskt Arkiv, 1984.
Light wear and minor rubbing to edges of covers with minor curling on lower corners of front cover. Light scuffing to covers with light reddish marks on upper edges of front and back covers. Staplebound errata and addenda laid in. 269 pages with indices.
Price: $20.00
Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met : The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931 - 1950.
Jackson, Paul.
Portland, OR: Amadeus Press, 1994.
Quarto-sized. Wear to edges of boards. Dj has wear along edges with minor scuffing to covers and light fading along spine. Black dot on upper edges of pages. 569 pages with illustrations, endnotes, operas and casts of broadcasts, historic broadcast recordings, select bibliography, and index.
Price: $25.00
Italian Violin Makers.
Jalovec, Karel.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1964.
Tall, heavy quarto.Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more wear to edges and corners of dj. Plastic coating on dj starting to lift. Some scotch tape at edges. dj spne faded. Some scuffing and creases to dj covers. Dj flap has wear where a sticker was removed, and flyleaf has outline of sticker as well. Pastedown endpaper has some wear where a bookplate has been partially removed. Edges of textblock have slight soiling. 445 p. w/ b&w plates of instruments, their maker's labels, and addional 22p of scale plans of instuments different masters. An important reference for Italian violin makers up to the mid 19th c.
Price: $95.00
The Violin Makers of Bohemia including the makers of Moravia and Slovakia.
Jalovec, Karel.
London: Anglo-Italian Production Limited, ca. 1960.
Tall, heavy quarto.Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more wear to edges and corners of dj. Some scuffing and creases to dj covers. Dj flap has wear where a sticker was removed. Pastedown endpaper has some wear where a bookplate appears to have been removed. Edges of textblock have slight soiling. 128 p. w/ twice as many pages of b&w plates of instruments, their maker's labels, a fold out map and scale plans of violins by different masters. An uncommon but important reference for central European violin makers up to the mid 20th c.
Price: $180.00
German and Austrian Violin Makers.
Jalovec, Karel. Translated by George Theiner. Edited by Patrick Hanks.
London: Paul Hamlyn, LTD, 1967.
Folio-sized (oversized). Some wear to edges and corners of dj, more so at spine. Slight wear and fading at edges of boards. Edges of textblock lightly soiled. 439 pages plus 16 outlines with illustrations. Includes examples of violin-makers labels/inscriptions. An important reference work on Centra European violin-makers organized alphabetically.
Price: $185.00
A Century of American Popular Music: 2000 Best-Loved and Remembered Songs, (1899-1999).
Jasen, David A.
New York, NY: Routledge, 2002.
Very good quarto-sized hardcover in glossy white illustrated binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Covers have some light scuffing. Slight stainmark on upper edge of rear pastedown endpaper. 317 pages with 3 indices (composer, publisher, year of publication) and list of academy award winners for best song. An alphabetical listing of 2000 songs with brief comments about each.
Price: $45.00
Arbeiterlied - Arbeitergesang : Hundert Jahre Arbeitermusikkultur in Deutschlan. Aufsätze und Vorträge aus 40 jahren 1959 - 1998.
Lammel, Inge.
Teetz, Germany: Hentrich und Hentrich, 2002.
Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. Includes a letter from the author laid in. 319 p. w/ illustrations, bibliography, index. A collection of 40 years of research essays and lectures on the last hundred years of folk music of German workers .
Price: $25.00
American Balladry from British Broadsides : A Guide for Students and Collectors of Traditional Song.
Laws, Jr., G. Malcolm.
Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1957.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards, slight wear to endpapers. 315 pages with references, 3 appendices (1. British broadside ballads current in American tradition : A bibliographical syllabus, 2. Some British and American broadside printers of the nineteenth century, 3. Some American recordings of British Broadside ballads), bibliography, and index.
Price: $65.00
Native American Balladry : a Descriptive Study and Bibliographical Syllabus.
Laws, Jr., G. Malcolm.
Philadelphia: The American Folklore Society, 1964.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards, slight wear to endpapers. Corners bumped. 298 pages with references, bibliography, and index to ballads and songs. A study of ballads created in America by American of colonial descent, rather than indigenous peoples. Includes discusions of icontributions by African - American and British traditions. This 2nd edition has both revisions and additional material, with an entire new chapter on the spirit of American balladry and more references.
Price: $95.00
Jean de Reszke and the Great Days of Opera.
Leiser, Clara. Foreword by Amherst Webber.
New York, NY: Minton, Balch & Company, 1934.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear along edges with many small tears and some chipping. Dj is also scuffed and browned along edges and spine. Light browning to page edges. 337 pages with illustrations, few footnotes, appendix, and index. A biography of Jean de Reszke (1850-1925), the famous tenor, and covers his relationships with his musical siblings Josephine and Edouard.
Price: $40.00
The Singing Game.
Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Octavo. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. Some small spots on upper edges of pages. 521 pages with illustrations, notes, select bibliography, and index. An interesting look at singing and clapping games.
Price: $20.00
