Geist Und Form Im Musikalischen Kunstwerk
New York: Musurgia Publishers, 1929. First printing. Red cloth boards, no DJ, in German, 195pp.
Music
A History of Western Music, Eighth Edition
New York: W W Norton & Co, 2010. First edition thus. Hardcover. First printing of 8th edition, 2010. Large 8vo, hardcover, xxxiv + 986 + A129 pp. Illustrated in color and b & w. Book is Near Fine, pages are clean and unmarked. Publisher's advert tipped in between front fly.....
An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster-Abbey
New York: Da Capo Press, 1979. Hardcover. 139 pp. Near fine copy in blue cloth. Contents of book clean with bright, unmarked text. Small staining on top right of front cover. Previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Stamp on front fly leaf and copyright page.
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio, Including Translations of His Principal Letters.: Including Translations of His Principal Letters. Volumes 1-3 (3 Vol. set)
New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Reprint. Hardcover. 1971 reprint edition. 3 volume set: 407, 420 & 414 pp. Hardcover, blue cloth, 8vo., no jackets. Near Fine copies: each book has previous owner's signature at inside front cover, and another signature there that has been crossed out. Otherwise, Fine copies.....
Sergeant Kitty - Vocal Score & Music
New York: Chas. K. Harris, Ca. 1904. Quarto, cloth-backed color pictorial wraps, very good, light wear to spine and light loss to front lower corner of wrap, contents VG, 158 pp. Action takes place at the village of Montigny where the 22nd Hussard are encamped, 1830. Kitta La Tour is.....
The Music of Toru Takemitsu, Hardback in Dust Jacket
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, publisher's boards in dust jacket, fine copy. 294 pp.
Grammar of Music
Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Da Capo Press, 1976. Hardcover. 491 pp. A near fine copy in blue cloth with gilt titles. Light shelfwear to spine. Small PO sticker at endpaper. Contents of book clean with bright, unmarked text.
101 Chorales Harmonized by Johann Sebastian Bach
Chicago: Hall & McCreary Company, 1952. First printing. Paperback. octavo, paper wraps, book is in very good condition with wear and discolorization to the wraps, 96pp.
The Silver Bell, a New Singing Book For Schools, Academies, Select Classes, and the Social Circle.
Boston: Henry Tolman, C. 1864. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo, leather backed green printed boards, good plus copy with some cloth restoration to spine, moderate rubbing and wear to boards, contents VG with some offsetting or stains to endpapers. 224 pp.
Klavervaeker, Udgivet af Emilius Bangert
Kobenhavn: Wilhelm Hansen, 1944. Paperback. Softcover. c.1944. 4to. 103pp. Very Good. Some edgwear to wraps, sunning to spine, corners bumped, spine-ends worn, light soil.
American Song Sheet: SCROUGER'S SONG
Philadelphia: Scroggy, Ca. 1852. 9 x 4.75 inches, typographical border. Very good, light mottling and general tanning. One of a number of song sheets published by Scoggy about fire companies in Philadelphia. AAS dates this 1852; it is NOT in the LOC America Singing Collection, and is NOT in Wolf's.....
The Great Service; Tudor Church Music, Octavo Edition; No. 22
London: Geoffrey Cumberledge / Oxford University Press. First printing. Paperback. First edition. No date (ca. 1925). Softcover, 119 pp., clean unmarked text, a Very Good copy, general discoloration to the pages of the text, soiling and discoloration to the covers, a bit of rubbing and wear to the tips and.....
Complete Catalogue; Urtext Editions; Scholarly Editings (Edition Peters)
New York: Peters, 1981. Paperback. 1981. Paperback, 68 pp. Illustrated in b&w. Very good. Sunning to wraps.
Large Program guide for C. W. Best Artists' Series, Season 1917-18: Antonio Sala and Gertrude Hale; Alberto Salvi & Martin Richardson, Harold Loring on American Indian Music "Assisted by a full-blood Sioux" Pasquale Tallarico, and Fenetta Sargent Haskell
Chicago: C. W. Best, 1917. Hardcover. 12.5 x 9.5 inches, published 1917, stiff card wraps with pictorial gray paper overlay, 16 pp, with many photographs of the performers. Very good.
Four American Indian Songs. Opus 45
Boston: White Smith, 1909. Quarto, wraps with cord tie, some wear and stains to wraps, contents good. 29 pp, pictorial title page.
1919 sheet music, Swanee, Al Jolson cover
New York: T. B. Harms, C. 1919. 13 x 10 inches, very good, light wear, owner's name in pencil on front cover.
Irving Caesar's Sing a Song of Safety
New York: Irving Caesar, 1937. First printing. Paperback. Softbound, 71 pp., illustrated, clean unmarked text, Good copy only, some soil/discoloration to the contents and to the covers, creasing to the covers, rubbing and wear to the tips and edges of the covers including some tearing or loss at the tips.....
M: Writings '67-'72
London: Calder and Boyars, 1973. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1973. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 217 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, creasing to the upper outer corner of some pages, bumping to the tips of the book's covers, soiling and age-toning.....
Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first edition, 1984, hardcover with orange cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 309pp., not illustrated. Book near fine with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG+ with mild sun to spine.....
Stanford Song Book (1914)
San Jose: Towner Brothers, 1914. First printing. Paperback. 11 x 8 inches, pictorial tan wraps, very good, bit musty, some light soil and stains. 46 pp. Includes song referencing the "heathen Chinee" that probably wouldn't be sung on the campus these days. Owner's name on cover.
Schubert's Songs
New York: Basic Books Inc., 1957. Hardcover. Published in 1957 by Basic Books Inc. Near fine hard back book with a very good dust jacket. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. All pages clean, crisp and unmarked. Dust jacket shows light bumping & toning. Tight binding. Clean boards. Very nice.....
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1983 program and souvenir book
Wendover, UK: The Peterhouse Press, 1983. Wraps. Quarto, 12 x 9.75 inches, pictorial wraps, very good with light wear. 137 pp, illustrated. Program, synopses, casts, articles by Ronald Crichton, J. W. Lambert, Michael Kennedy and George Mikes on the operas. On the program that year were Idomeneo, Die Entfuhrung aus.....
Jazz Directory, 3 vols.--Volume One: A-B, Volume Two: C-D, & Volume Three: E-G
Fordingbridge: Delphic Press, 1949-51. First printing. Paperback. Three volumes, not a complete set. First editions--1949, 1950, 1951. Softcovers, 551 total pp., clean unmarked text, Good to Very Good copy, all three vols. with label of previous owner affixed to the titlepage, a bit of soiling or discoloration to the outer pages.....
Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis
Oxford University Press, 1999. Paperback. Softcover. c.1999. 8vo. 294pp. Near Fine. Mild shelfwear.
The English Madrigalists: Edward Carlton - Madrigals to the Five Voices (1601)
London: Stainer & Bell. Paperback. 165 pp. A near fine soft cover copy. No date, revised from 1920 edition. Spine sunned. Contents of book clean with bright, unmarked text and musical notation.