Results for: Music
A Trumpet by Any Other Name : A History of the Trumpet Marine. 2 Volumes.
Adkins, Cecil, and Alis Dickinson.
Buren, the Netherlands: Frits Knuf Publishers, 1991.
Two very good octavo hardcovers in blue binding without dust jackets. Both volumes have light wear along edges and some bumping to head and heel of spine. Slight scuffing to covers of both books. Slight smudging on front cover of volume II. 612 pages total with illustrations, 3 appendices, footnotes, bibliography, and index. A work detailing the history and music of this instrument. Special shipping rates for this 2 volume work.
Price: $30.00
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: $175.00
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: $25.00
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: $25.00
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
Pioneers in Brass.
Bridges, Glenn D.
Detroit, MI: Sherwood Publications, 1972.
Quarto-sized. Light wear to edges of boards with light bumping to head and heel of spine and on upper fore-edge of back cover. Covers are scuffed and lightly soiled. Inscribed by author to previous owner on front free endpaper. 113 pages plus an addenda with illustrations and appendix. A look at brass musicians.
Price: $75.00
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
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: $60.00
Caruso on Records : Pitch, Speed, Comments.
Favia-Artsay, Aida.
Valhalla, NY: Historic Record, 1965..
First edition. Good octoavo 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: $150.00
Maria Malibran : Diva of the Romantic Age.
Fitzlyon, April.
London: Souvenir Press, 1987.
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 minor browning along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 330 pages with illustrations, endnotes, select bibliography, and index. A look at the brief but brilliant life of the noted opera singer Maria Malibran (1808-1836).
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
The Blues: A Bibliographic Guide.
Hart, Mary L.; Brenda M. Eagles; and Lisa N. Howorth. Introduction by William Ferris.
New York, NY: Garland Publishing , 1989.
Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight scuffing to covers. Rear pastedown endpaper was not properly glued down and has fold on upper corner. Light smudge on fore-edges of pages. 636 pages with indices. An excellent reference work for material on the Blues.
Price: $110.00
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
Church Music in the Nineteenth Century.
Hutchings, Arthur.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Some wear and light rubbing along edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and some scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly browned. 166 pages with figures, footnotes, and index.
Price: $15.00
German and Austrian Violin-Makers.
Jalovec, Karel. Translated by George Theiner. Edited by Patrick Hanks.
London: Paul Hamlyn, LTD, 1967.
Folio-sized (oversized). Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with small holes in binding on corners of both covers with much scuffing to covers. Front hinge is weak and tear between front endpapers about an inch on length on upper part. Signed and inscribed by many people, but not the author, on the front free endpaper. 439 pages plus 16 outlines with illustrations. Includes examples of violin-makers labels/inscriptions. An important reference work on European violin-makers organized alphabetically.
Price: $150.00
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: $75.00
The Playford Ball: 103 Early Country Dances, 1651-1820, As Interpreted by Cecil Sharp and His Followers.
Keller, Katie Van Winkle, and Geneviere Shimer.
Chicago: Cappella Books/The Country Dance and Song Society, 1990.
Good quarto-sized softcover. Wear to edges of coverswith creasing on corners, especially the lower corner of front cover. Few minor tears on front cover where sticker was removed by previous owner and some light scuffing. Name of previous owner written on title page. 120 pages with illustrations and bibliography. A collection of classic dances from early modern Britain.
Price: $45.00
Show Boat: The Story of a Classic American Musical.
Kreuger, Miles.
New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Very good quarto (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and mior scuffing to covers. 246 pages with illustrations, 7 appendices (1. New York City area stage productions, 2. three London productions, 3. American regional productions, 4. the stage score, 5. film casts and scores, 6. radio, 7. a selected discography), and index. A detailed look at the musical, "Show Boat."
Price: $40.00
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 with bumping to cornes of covers and minor scuffing to covers. Page edges are lightly browned. 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: $45.00
Who Killed Classical Music? Maestros, Managers, and Corporate Politics.
Lebrecht, Norman.
Secaucus, NJ: Birch Lane Press, 1996.
Octavo. Light wear to edges with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with scuffing to covers. 455 pages with illustrations, notes after each chapter, bibliography, and index.
Price: $25.00
Carl Nielsen : A Guide to Research.
Miller, Mina F.
New York, NY: Garland Publishing, 1987.
Good octavo hardcover in green cloth binding without dust jacket. Ex-library with many of the flaws, marks, and stamps associated with that condition including call number tag on spine, identification strip on front pastedown endpaper, and date due paper on front free endpaper. Light wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and lesser bumping to corners of panels. 245 pages plus some illustrations and 3 indices.
Price: $30.00
Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s.
Mordden, Ethan.
New York: Palgrave, 2001..
First edition. Very good octavo hardcover in very good price-clipped dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges with some slight scuffing to covers. Gift inscription (not by author) to previous owner on front free endpaper. 279 pages with illustrations, footnotes, and index.
Price: $15.00
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
Clockwork Music: An Illustrated History of Mechanical Musical Instruments from the Musical Box to the Pianola from Automaton Lady Virginal Players to Orchestrion.
Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G.
New York: Crown Publishers, 1973..
First edition. Very good quarto hardcover in very good dust jacket. Wear and rubbing along the edges of the boards with bumping to the head and heel of the spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along the edges also with scuffing to the covers. Browning along the edges of the dj and its flaps. Foxing on fore-edges and upper edges of the pages, especially on the upper edges. 334 pages with illustrations, appendix (names of instruments and their makers), and index. An interesting history of mechanical musical instruments like music boxes and player pianos up to gramophones.
Price: $20.00
The Resident Professional Company of the College of Wooster : A Celebration of the Ohio Light Opera Innocent Merriment.
Parsons, Charles H.
Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001.
Very good octavo hardcover with illustrated cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with some slight rubbing and very minor scuffing to covers. 383 pages with illustrations.
Price: $40.00
St. Francis of Assisi (Little Flowers). Oratorio in a Prologue and Two Parts. Poem by Gabriel Nigond, English version by Claude Aveling. Composed for Soli and Choruses of Men, Women, and Children with Orchestra by Gabriel Pierne.
Pierne, Gabriel.
New York, NY: G. Schirmer, No date.
Quarto-sized. Ex-library with many of the marks, stamps, and flaws associated with that condition including call number tag on spine and stamps on endpapers. Wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and some light scuffing to covers with white mark on fore-edges of front cover. Page edges are browned. 231 pages.
Price: $70.00
