Rosemary Dooley

Secondhand Books on Music

 

 All items are hardback first editions, published in London, unless otherwise stated.

 Postage/payment details are given at the end of the list.

 

ADORNO, THEODOR. Sound Figures. pp.ix+229. VG PB. Eng edn, Stanford UP 1999. £13.50

 

AMODEI, CATALDO. Cante a voce sola 1685. Ed Giuseppe Collisani. pp.xxii + 137 music. VG PB. Florence, Olschki 1992. £19.50

AMERICA

BERGER, ARTHUR. Reflections of an American Composer. pp.vii+270, music exx, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2002. £15.00

FARWELL, ARTHUR. "Wanderjahre of a Revolutionist" and Other Essays on American Music. Ed Thomas Stoner. pp.xxi+267, illus. VG, dj. [new £35] Rochester UP 1995. £11.50

 

JEZIC, DIANE PEACOCK. The Musical Migration and Ernst Toch. pp.xi+220, music exx, illus. Iowa State UP 1989. VG, dj. £4.00

 

KRUMMEL, D W. Bibliographical Handbook of American Music. pp.ix+269. Illinois UP 1987. VG. £7.50

 

McKAY, DAVID P & CRAWFORD, RICHARD. William Billings of Boston. Eighteenth-Century Composer. pp.xii+303, illus. VG, dj. Princeton UP 1975. £9.50

 

MILLARD, ANDRE. America on Record. A History of Recorded Sound. pp.ix+413, illus. VG PB. 2nd edn, Cambridge UP 2005. £11.50

 

SESSIONS. The Correspondence of Roger Sessions. Ed Andrea Olmstead. pp.xxviii+539, illus. Northeastern UP 1992. VG, dj. £15.00

 

_____ OLMSTEAD, ANDREA. Conversations with Roger Sessions. pp.ix+274, music exx. VG, dj. Northeastern UP 1987. £12.50

 

_____ PRAUSNITZ, FREDERIC. Roger Sessions. How a "Difficult" Composer Got That Way. pp.xiii+348, illus. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2002. £12.50

 

THOMSON. Virgil Thomson by Virgil Thomson. pp.x+424+xiii, illus. VG, dj. NY, Knopf 1966. £7.50

 

_____ Music with Words. A Composer's View. pp.x+178, music exx. Yale UP 1989. VG, dj. £7.50

 

_____ TOMMASINI, ANTHONY Virgil Thomson's Musical Portraits. pp.xii+237, music exx, illus. VG. Pendragon 1986. £13.50

 

VOGEL, SHANE. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret. Race, Sexuality, Performance. pp.xiii+257, illus. VG PB. Chicago UP 2009. £13.50

ANALYSIS

BARRY, BARBARA R. The Philosopher’s Stone. Essays in the Transformation of Musical Structure. pp.viii+238, music exx. VG. [new £42.95] Pendragon 2000. £19.50

 

SALZER, FELIX. Structural Hearing. Tonal Coherence in Music. 2 volumes: pp.xix+283, pp.xvi + 349 music. VG, djs. Dover repr 1962 of 1952 edn. £17.50

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ANCIENT MUSIC. STOQUERUS, GASPAR. De musica verbali libri duo. Two Books on Verbal Music. Trsl/intro/indices Albert C Rotola. pp.xii+298. VG. Nebraska UP 1988. £13.50

 

ARCHITECTURE. XENAKIS, IANNIS. Music and Architecture. Architecture, Projects, Texts, and Realizations. Trsl Sharon Kanach. pp.xxii+337, colour/b&w illus. VG. Eng edn, Pendragon 2008. £32.50

[includes Xenakis with Le Corbusier, as an independent architect, his writings on architecture]

 

ARNOLD. BURTON-PAGE, PIERS. Philharmonic Concerto. The Life and Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold. pp.xiii+194, illus. VG, dj. Methuen 1994. £14.00

 

____ CRAGGS, STEWART R. Malcolm Arnold. A Bio-Bibliography. pp.xi+216. VG.Greenwood 1998. £17.50

 

AUSTRIA

BEHAR, PIERRE & SCHNEIDER, HERBERT eds. Österreichische Oper oder Oper in Österreich? Die Libretto-Problematik. pp.ix+336. VG PB. [€49.80 new] Hildesheim, Olms 2005. £16.00

 

DEUTSCHE,W, DREO, H, HAID, G & HORAK, K ed. Volksmusik in Österriech. pp.175, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Vienna, Österreichischer Bundesverlag 1984. £17.50

 

HANSLICK, EDUARD. Geschichte des Concertwesens in Wien. 2 volumes: pp.xv+438; pp.xii+534. VG. Farnborough, Gregg repr 1971 of 1869-70 edn. £30.00

J S BACH

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied. Afterword by Walter Gerstenberg. pp.20 music facs + 4. VG gold/white patterned cover. Bärenreiter 1958. £17.50

 

STINSON, RUSSELL ed. Bach Perspectives I. pp.xii+226, music exx. VG, dj. [new £57] Nebraska UP 1995. [essays by Schulenberg, Stinson, Marissen, Chafe, Crist, Brokaw] £22.50

 

STAUFFER, GEORGE B ed. Bach Perspectives. Volume two. J.S. Bach, the Breitkopfs, and Eighteenth-Century Music Trade. pp.xv+219, music exx, illus. VG. [new £57] Nebraska UP 1996. £22.50

[essays on the Breitkopf Family & 18C music publishing by Stauffer, E May, A Gloeckner, J-J Schulze; Breitkopf’s dealings with the Bach & Mozart families by Y Kobayashi, P Daub, N Zaslaw’ the Breitkopf catalogs by Kobayashi, G R Hill, Cammarota; the Breitkopf family by G Butler, O Landmann, Stauffer]

ODRICH, EVELIN & WOLLNY, PETER eds. Die Briefentwürfe des Johann Elias Bach (1705-1755). pp.282. VG PB. Hildesheim, Olms [Leipziger Beiträge zur Bach-Forschung 3] 2000. £15.00

SCHULZE, HANS-JOACHIM & WOLFF, CHRISTOPH. Bach Compendium. Analytisch-bibliographisches Repertorium der Werke Johann Sebastian Bachs. Vokalwerke / Teil 1. pp.419, many music exx. VG, dj. Peters 1985. £18.00

 

SCHWENDOWIUS, BARBARA & DOMLING, WOLFGANG eds. Johann Sebastian Bach. Zeit - Leben - Wirken. pp.179, many colour/b&w illus. VG, good dj. Bärenreiter 1976. £20.00

 

STINSON, RUSSELL. J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales pp.xiii+171, music exx/facs. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2001. £12.50

 

WILLIAMS, PETER. The Life of Bach. pp.viii+219, illus. VG PB. [new £17.99] Cambridge UP 2004. £9.50

 

WOLFF, CHRISTOPH Bach. Essays on His Life & Music. pp.xiv+461, mus exx, ill. VG, dj. Harvard UP 1991 £19.50

BAROQUE

ARNOLD, DENIS. Marenzio. pp.iv+45, music exx. VG, cover partly faded. Oxford UP 1965. £4.00

2nd copy Oxford UP PB 1965 (1974). VG. £3.00

 

CESSAC, CATHERINE. Marc-Antoine Charpentier. pp.558, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Portland OR, Amadeus 1995. £11.50

 

DENTICE, LUIGI. Duo dialoghi della musica. Ed Patrizio Barbieri. pp.xxii + 92 facs. VG, dj. Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana facs 1988 of 1553 edn. £5.00

 

[DURFEY, PURCELL, ECCLES et al] Don Quixote. The Music in the Three Plays of Thomas Durfey. Intro Curtis Price. pp.xvi + [95] music facs + 1. VG. [new £38] Tunbridge Wells, Macnutt [MLE A2] facs repr 1984 of 1694-6 edn. £20.00

 

HARPER, ANTHONY J. German Secular Song-Books of the Mid-Seventeenth Century. An Examination of the Texts in Collections of Songs Published in the German-Language Area between 1624 and 1660. pp.viii+345. VG. Aldershot, Ashgate 2003. £25.00

 

MARCELLO, BENEDETTO. Estro poetico-armonico. Parafrasi sopra li secondi venticinque salmi. 2 volumes bound as 1, all in facsimile: Tomo settimo pp.28 +168 music + 1. Tomo ottavio pp.24 + 181 music + 1. VG. Gregg reprint 1967 "slightly reduced from original" of 1726 edn. £37.50

 

MOMPELLIO, FEDERICO. Pietro Vinci, madrigalista Siciliano. Appendice I Madrigalisti Siciliani [alphabetical]. pp.xii + 236 (incl 55 music & 46 appx). Good PB. Milan, Hoepli 1937. £11.50

 

OMONSKY, UTE. Untersuchungen zur Musiksammelhandschrift Signatur N.22 aus dem Pfarrarchiv Neustadt (Orla). Ein Beitrag zur Musikgeschichte Thüringens der 1. Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. pp.220. VG PB. Bad Köstritz, Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Heinrich-Schütz-Haus 1993. £5.00

 

TALBOT, MICHAEL. Benedetto Vinaccesi. A Musician in Brescia and Venice in the Age of Corelli. pp.xii+356, music exx. VG, cover corners bumped, dj. Oxford UP 1994. £17.50

 

TOMKINS. STEVENS, DENIS Thomas Tomkins 1572-1656. pp.xi+214, mus exx, ill. VG PB. Dover repr 1967. £6.00

BEETHOVEN

Ludwig van Beethoven. Epistolario Volume I 1783-1807. Ed Sieghard Brandenburg. pp.461, illus. VG, dj. Italian edn, Milan, Skira / Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia 1999. £6.00

Beethoven Forum 7. Ed Lewis Lockwood, Christopher Reynolds & Elaine R Sisman. pp.xi+172, music exx. VG, dj. Nebraska UP 1999. [essays by Fillion, Berger, Drabkin, Kramer, Treitler, Tusa, Solomon] £13.50

 

CHURGIN, BATHIA. Transcendent Mastery. Studies in the Music of Beethoven. pp.xviii+413, music exx. VG exc bumped cover corners. [new £41.50] Pendragon 2008. £22.50

BERLIOZ

A Travers Chants. Etudes musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques. pp.v+336. VG, faded spine. Farnborough, Gregg repr 1970 of 1862 edn. £9.50

 

Lettres inédites de Hector Berlioz à Thomas Gounet. Ed L Milhous & G Allix. pp.33. Good browned PB, some uncut pages, front cover detached. Grenoble, Allier 1903. £2.00

 

BLOOM, PETER ed. Berlioz Studies. pp.xix+279, music exx. Cambridge UP 1992. VG, dj. £19.50

[essays by Cairns, Macdonald, Kemp, Bloom, Rushton, Levy, Reeve, Faquet, Barzun]

 

BOSCHOT, ADOLPHE. La jeunesse d’un romantique. Hector Berlioz 1803-1831, d’après de nombreux documents inédits. pp.543, illus. VG contents, browned edges/spine. 4th edn, Paris, Plon-Nourrit 1912. £12.50

 

—— Un romantique sous Louis Philippe. Hector Berlioz 1831-1842, d’après de nombreux documents inédits. pp.673. VG, browned edges. 3rd edn, Paris, Plon-Nourrit 1908. £12.50

 

HOLOMAN, D KERN. Berlioz. pp.viii+687, music exx, illus. Faber 1989. VG, dj. £13.50

 

HOPKINSON, CECIL. A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of Hector Berlioz 1803-1869 with Histories of the French Music Publishers Concerned. Ed Richard Macnutt. pp.xix + 19 plates + 230. Tunbridge Wells, Macnutt 1980. VG. £10.00

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BIZET. DIBBERN, MARY. Carmen. A Performance Guide. pp.xxx+310, illus. VG PB. Pendragon 2000. £15.00

["A word-by-word translation into English, transcription into the International Phonetic Alphabet, and annotated guide to the Dialogue and Recitative Versions of Bizet’s Carmen"]

 

BOYCE, WILLIAM.  The Shepherd’s Lottery. A Musical Entertainment. Libretto Moses Mendez. Introd Robert J Bruce. pp.xvii + [2+6] facs + 52 music facs. VG. [new £60] Tunbridge Wells, Macnutt [MLE C4] repr 1990 of 1751 edn. £25.00

BRITISH MUSIC

ARGENT, MARK ed. Recollections of R.J.S. Stevens. An Organist in Georgian London. pp.xix+314. VG, dj. Macmillan 1992. £9.50

 

ASHBEE, ANDREW. William Lawes 1602-1645. Essays on his Life, Times and Work. pp.xix+386, music exx. VG exc top cover corners bumped, dj. [£70 new] Aldershot, Ashgate 1998. £25.00

[by Ashbee, Wood, Milton, Pinto, Wainwright, Thompson, Ring, Robinson, Field, Davenport, Otterstedt, Traficante]

 

BLEDSOE, ROBERT TERRELL. Henry Fothergill Chorley. Victorian Journalist. pp.xiii+365. VG, dj. [new £65] Aldershot, Ashgate 1998. £19.50

CLARKE, JEREMIAH, LEVERIDGE, RICHARD, PURCELL, DANIEL. The Island Princess. British Library Add. MS 15318. A Semi-Opera. The Libretto by Peter Anthony Motteux after John Fletcher and Nahum Tate. Introd Curtis A Price & Robert D Hume. pp.xxii + 65 facs + [24] facs/music facs. VG. [new £66] Tunbridge Wells, Macnutt [MLE C2] 1985. £27.50

 

FOREMAN, LEWIS ed. Music in England 1885-1920 as Recounted in Hazell’s Annual. pp.viii+121, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). Thames 1994. £13.50

 

FOREMAN, LEWIS & SUSAN. London - A Musical Gazetteer. pp.xii+372, illus. VG PB. Yale UP 2005. £13.50

 

HAYDON, GEOFFREY. John Tavener. Glimpses of Paradise. pp.306, illus. VG, dj. Gollancz 1995. £6.00

 

HISCOCK, W G. A Christ Church Miscellany. New Chapters on Architects, Craftsmen, Statuary Plate, Bells, Furniture, Clocks, Plays, the Library and other Buildings. pp.xix+260, illus. VG. Oxford UP for the author 1946. [incl a chapter "Lost Music"] £9.50

 

LLOYD, STEPHEN. William Walton. Muse of Fire. pp.xi+332, illus. VG exc bottom spine bumped, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2001. £12.50

 

OAKLEY, DEREK. Fiddler on the March. A Biography of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Vivian Dunn KCVO OBE FRAM Royal Marines. pp.299, illus. VG, dj. Royal Marines Historical Society 2000. £11.50

 

PRICE, CURTIS, MILHOUS, JUDITH & HUME, ROBERT D. The Impresario's Ten Commandments. Continental Recruitment for Italian Opera in London, 1763-64. pp.viii+94, illus. VG. [new £45] Royal Musical Association 1992. £9.50

 

SZARMACH, PAUL E, TAVORMINA, M TERESA & ROSENTHAL, JOEL T eds. Medieval England. An Encyclopedia. pp.lxiv+882, illus. VG. [£125 new] Garland 1998. £50.00

 

TOFT, ROBERT. Tune thy Musicke to Thy Hart. The Art of Eloquent Singing in England 1597-1622. pp.viii+199, music exx. VG. Toronto UP 1993. £37.50

BRITTEN

Curlew River [full score]. pp.xii + 123 music + 2 + Production Notes by Britten & Plomer pp.20. VG PBs. Faber 1965. £20.00

 

On Receiving the First Aspen Award. pp.23. VG. Faber PB 1964. £3.00

 

KENNEDY, MICHAEL. Britten [Master Musicians]. pp.xii+355, music exx, illus. VG PB. Rev edn, Dent 1993. £9.50

 

WINTLE, CHRISTOPHER. All the Gods. Benjamin Britten’s Night-piece in Context. Ed Julian Littlewood. pp.xii+125, music exx. VG. [new £35] Britten Estate / KCL / Plumbago 2006. £19.50

BRUCKNER

Gesammelte Briefe. Neue Folge.Ed Max Auer.pp.408.Hardbound photocopy.Regensburg, Bosse repr 1924. £9.50

 

SIMPSON, ROBERT. Bruckner and the Symphony. pp.20, music exx, illus. VG PB. BBC [1963]. £2.00

 

WESSELY, OTHMAR ed Bruckner-Studien. Festgabe der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zum 150. Geburtstag von Anton Bruckner. pp.512, music exx. VG, dj. Vienna, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 1975. £27.50

[essays by Pass, Maier, Wessely, Mitterschiffthaler, Biba, Schnürl, Brosche, Hilmar, Martinotti, Nowak, Schütz, Werner, Grasberger, Wagner, Schenk/Gruber, Flotzinger, Antonicek]

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BURNEY. LONSDALE, ROGER. Dr. Charles Burney.A Literary Biography. pp.xvi+527, illus. VG. OUP 1965. £11.50

 

BUSH, GEOFFREY. Left, Right and Centre. Reflections on Composers and Composing. pp.158, music exx, illus. VG, back cover marked. Thames 1983. £12.50

 

BUSONI. SITSKY, LARRY. Busoni and the Piano. The Works, the Writings, and the Recordings. pp.xii+414, music exx VG PB. 2nd edn, Pendragon 2009. £30.00

 

BUXTEHUDE. GECK, MARTIN. Die Vokalmusic Dietrich Buxtehudes und der frühe Pietismus. pp.241, music exx. VG PB exc top corners little bent. Bärenreiter 1965. £11.50

CATALOGUES

BECHERINI, BIANCA. Catalogo dei manoscritti musicali della Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze. pp.xii+178. VG, exc bottom corner of latter pages creased. Bärenreiter 1959. £9.50

 

BOTTEGAL, ATTILIO & ZAPPALA, PIETRO eds. Il fondo musicale Albert Dunning. Università degli Studi di Pavia, Facoltà Musicologia - Cremona. Catalogo. pp.xiii+118, illus. VG PB. Turnhout, Brepols 2005. £9.50

 

DE SANCTIS, STEFANO & NIGRIS, NADIA. Il fondo musicale dell’I.R.E. Istituzioni di Ricovero e di Educazione di Venezia. pp.xxxvii+324, music exx. VG PB. Rome, Torre d’Orfeo 1990. £9.50

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CHAMBER MUSIC. SMALLMAN, BASIL. The Piano Trio. Its History, Technique, and Repertoire. pp.ix+230, music exx. VG, dj (faded spine). Oxford UP 1990. VG, dj. £10.00

CHURCH MUSIC

BARANDONI, STEFANO & RAFFAELLI, PAOLA. L’archivio musicale della chiesa conventuale dei Cavalieri di Santo Stefano di Pisa. Storia e catalogo. pp.xi+315, music exx. VG PB. Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana 1994. £11.50

 

BELL, THOMAS J. Peter Abelard after Marriage. The Spiritual Direction of Heloise and her Nuns through Liturgical Song. pp.xxxvii+346, music exx. VG PB. [new £28.99] Kalamazoo MI, Cistercian Publications 2007. £17.50

 

BLEZZARD, JUDITH. Borrowings in English Church Music 1550-1950. pp.224, music exx. VG, exc top cover corners bumped, dj. Stainer & Bell 1990. £9.50

 

EDWARDS, OWAIN TUDOR. Matin, Lauds and Vespers for St David’s Day. The Medieval Office of the Welsh Patron Saint in National Library of Wales MS 20541 E. pp.xiv+224, music exx. VG, dj. Cambridge, Brewer 1990. £17.50

 

STRADELLA. Cantate Sacre. Serie I, Cantate: vol. 20. Ed Eleanor F McCrickard. pp.lxxv + 346 (incl 260 music). VG (cloth) exc bumped cover corners. Pisa, ETS, Alessandro Stradella Opera Omnia III Oratori/1, 2004. £27.50

 

VERDI. Requiem. New edn, trsl Geoffrey Dunn (vocal score). pp.218 music. VG, clothbound. Ricordi. £7.50

CONFERENCES

DEVINE, PATRICK F & WHITE, HARRY eds. The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995. Selected Proceedings. Ed P F Devine [Irish Musical Studies 4 & 5] 2 volumes: pp.444, 409, music exx, illus. VG, djs. Dublin, Four Courts Press 1996. 2 volumes £37.50

 

GOMEZ, ITALO, LEYDI, ROBERTO, PERUCHETTI, CARLO eds. Teatro lirico e organizzazione musicale nelle regioni della comunita’ Europea, Regione Lombardia. Convego internazionale. Como 14-16 1975. pp.121. Good PB. Milano, Giuta Regionale /Como, Nani. £9.50

 

HEARTZ, DANIEL & WADE, BONNIE eds. Report of the Twelfth Congress Berkeley 1977. pp.xx+912, music exx, illus. VG, PB cover little browned. Bärenreiter 1981. £17.50

 

MALHOMME, FLORENCE & WERSINGER, ANNE GABRIELE eds. Mousikè et Aretè. La musique et l’éthique, de l’antiquité à l’âge moderne. [Colloque Sorbonne 2003] pp.254. VG PB. Paris, J Vrin 2007. £15.00

[essays by Perceau, Moutsopoulos, Barker, Bélis, Zadgoun, Delattre, Dangel, Rispoli, Trottmann, Caye, Gozza, Margolin, Charrak, Magnard, the editors]

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CONTINO, GIOVANNI. Madrigali a quattro e cinque voci in antologie ed intavolature. Ed Romano Vettori pp.xl + 187 music. VG. Milan, Suvini Zerboni 1994. £19.50

DANCE

Echoes of American Ballet. A Collection of Seventeen Articles Written and Selected by Lillian Moore. Edited / Intro Ivor Guest. pp.viii+165, illus. VG. NY, Dance Horizons 1976. £5.00

 

BENBOW-PFALZGRAF, TARYN, with BENBOW-NIEMIER, GLYNIS eds. International Dictionary of Modern Dance. pp.xxvi+891, illus. VG. Gale / St James Press 1998. £27.50

 

SLONIMSKY, YURY. The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet pp.[120], colour/b&w illus. VG, spine little marked. Eng edn, Foreign Languages Publishing House [1956]. £6.00

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DICTIONARIES. NICOLODI, FIAMMA & TROVATO, PAOLO ed. Le parole della musica. III Studi di lessicologia musicale. pp.xi+317. VG PB. Florence, Olschki 2000. £12.50

[essays by Siekiera, Giani, Gargiulo, Chegai, Gatta, Nicolodi/Trovato, Beghelli, Quaranta, Arfini, Spanu]

 

DONIZETTI. ASHBROOK, WILLIAM. Donizetti, La Vita, pp.ix+265, illus. Donizetti, Le Opere, pp.viii+405, music exx. VG PBs. Italian edn, Turin, EDT 1987. 2 volumes £9.50

EDUCATION. HAROUTOUNIAN, JOANNE. Kindling the Spark. Recognizing and Developing Musical Talent. pp.xx+366, music exx, illus. VG PB. [new £18] Oxford UP 2002. £9.50

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

BARTH-SCALMANI, G, MAZOHL-WALLNIG, B & WANGERMANN, E eds. Genie und Alltag. Bürgerlich Stadtkultur zur Mozartzeit. pp.267, illus. VG, dj. Salzburg, Otto Müller 1994. £19.50

[essays by Mazohl-Wallnig/Wallnig, Herzog, Mittendorfer, Neumayr, Bauer, Barth-Scalmani, Mittenzwei, Heindl, Rainer, Reiber, Wangermann, Antonicek, Rosenstrauch-Königsberg, Puntscher-Riekmann]

BROOK, BARRY S ed. Christian Ulrich Ringmacher Thematic Catalogue No.2 (1773). pp.112+64, music exx. VG. [new £54.95] Pendragon 1987. £9.50

 

CSAKY, MORITZ & PASS, WALTER eds. Europa im Zeitalter Mozarts. pp.418.VG, dj. Vienna, Böhlau 1995. £17.50

 

GIAZOTTO, REMO. Tomaso Albinoni "Musico di violino dilettante veneto" (1671-1750). Con il catalogo tematico della musiche per strumenti, 197 esempi musicali e 14 tavole fuori testo. pp.363, music exx, illus. VG contents, fragile browned paper covers, front detached. Milan, Bocca 1945. £7.50

 

SMITHER, HOWARD E. A History of the Oratorio. Volume 3 The Classical Era. pp.xxiv+711, music exx, illus. VG, dj. N Carolina UP 1987. £22.50

 

STROHM, REINHARD. Dramma per Musica. Italian Opera of the Eighteenth Century. pp.x+326, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Yale UP 1997. £25.00

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ELGAR.  MOORE, JERROLD NORTHROP. Elgar.Child of Dreams. pp.viii+212, illus. VG, dj. Faber 2004. £9.50

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Africa

COPLAN, DAVID B. In the Time of Cannibals. The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants. pp.xxii+300, illus. VG PB. [£18 new] Witwatersrand 1994. £7.50

 

SCHADE-POULSEN, MARC. Men and Popular Music in Algeria. The Social Significance of Raï. pp.vii+250. VG PB. Texas UP 1999. £11.50

Americas

APARICIO, FRANCES R. Listening to Salsa. Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures. pp.xxi+290, illus. VG. new £23.50] Wesleyan UP PB edn 1998. £15.00

GUILBAULT, JOSCELYNE, with AVERILL, G, BENOIT, E & RABESS, G. Zouk. World Music in the West Indies. pp.xxv+279, music exx, illus, CD. VG PB. Chicago UP 1993. £13.50

Asia

MARTINEZ, JOSE LUIZ. Semiosis in Hindustani Music. pp.xxvii+396, music exx. VG, dj. Indian edn, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass 2001. £12.50

 

ROSEMAN, MARINA. Healing Sounds from the Malaysian Rainforest. Temiar Music and Medicine. pp.xvii+233, music exx, illus. VG. California UP PB edn 1993. £8.00

 

ROY, BIMAL. Sangiti sabda kosa (Dictionary of [Indian] Musical Terms). [in English] Ed Pradeep Kumar Ghosh. Trsl Chhaya Chatterji. pp.x+334. VG, bumped cover corners, dj. Delhi, Sharada Publishing 2004. £13.50

Europe

SLOBIN, MARK ed. Retuning Culture. Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe. pp. vi+310. VG PB. [new £17.99] Duke UP 1996. £10.00

[essays by Levin, Beckerman, Frigysei, Lange, Czekanowska, Lausevic, Wanner, Popa, Rice, Buchanan, Silverman, Mazo]

FESTSCHRIFTEN

DART. BENT, IAN ed. Source Materials and the Interpretation of Music. A Memorial Volume to Thurston Dart. pp.473, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Stainer & Bell 1981. £20.00

[essays by Stevens, M Bent, Fallows, Boorman, Fortune, Timms, Picken, Brett, Le Huray, Williams, Durán, Laurie, Bowman, Tilmouth, Coral, Trowell]

 

KAUFMANN. NOBLITT, THOMAS ed. Music East and West. Essays in Honor of Walter Kaufmann pp.viii+403, music exx, illus. VG. NY, Pendragon 1981. £19.50

[incl Howard on Yajurveda Festival in Kerala, Wade on Khyal, Miller on Asian free-reed instruments, Hye-ku Lee on Korean Music, Nettl on Persian Radif, Merriam on African musical rhythm, Reinhard on Turkish miniatures]

 

RONGA. Scritti in onore di Luigi Ronga. pp.ix+669, music exx. VG exc dent top edge of front cover. Milan/Naples, Ricciardi 1973. [essays in Italian, German, English or French] £15.00

 

SCHENK. ANTONICEK, FLOTZINGER, WESSELY eds. De ratione in musica. Festschrift Erich Schenk zum 5. Mai 1972. pp.xiii+300, music exx. VG PB. Kassel, Bärenreiter 1975. £12.50

[essays by Pass, Schnürl, Scholz/Scholz/Michelitsch, Seifert, Schütz, Constantini, Kantner, Linde, Mayeda, Floros, Wuensch, Knaus, Karbaum, the editors]

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FILM MUSIC. [SCHARF] Composed and Conducted by Walter Scharf. Accompanied by Michael Freedland. pp.xiii+231, illus. VG, dj. Valentine, Mitchell 1988. £5.00

FRANCE

EVERIST, MARK. Music Drama at the Paris Odéon 1824-1828. pp.xviii+331, music exx, illus. VG, dj. [new £41.95] California UP 2002. £15.00

 

GIRDLESTONE, CUTHBERT. Jean-Philippe Rameau. His Life and Work. pp.xi+627, music exx. VG PB. Dover repr 1969 of Eng edn 1957. £11.50

 

HAGAN, DOROTHY VEINUS. Félicien David 1810-1876. A Composer and a Cause. pp.xvi+239, music exx, illus. Syracuse UP 1985. VG, dj. £12.50

 

HARDING, JAMES. Gounod. pp.251, illus. NY, Stein & Day 1973. VG, dj. £9.50

 

—— Massenet. pp.229, music exx, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). Dent 1970. £8.50

 

KIBLER, WILLIAM W & ZINN, GROVER A eds. Medieval France. An Encyclopedia. pp.xxvi+1047, illus. VG. [£155 new] Garland 1995. £65.00

GERMANY

FURSTENAU, MORITZ. Zur Geschichte der Musik und des Theaters am Hofe zu Dresden. pp.xiv+387+lii. VG, dj. Leipzig, Peters 1971. £20.00

 

HUSCHKE, WOLFRAM. ... von jener Glut beseelt. Geschichte der Staatskapelle Weimar… mit essays von Detlef Altenburg & Nina Noeske. pp.240, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. Jena, Glaux 2002. [text parallel Germ/Eng] £19.50

 

SMEED, J W. German Song and its Poetry 1740-1900. pp.xiv+246, music exx. VG, dj. Croom Helm 1987. £17.50

 

STEIN, JACK M. Poem and Music in the German Lied from Gluck to Hugo Wolf. pp.ix+238, music exx. Harvard UP 1971. VG, dj. £16.00

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GRIEG. Edvard Grieg. Letters to Colleagues and Friends. Ed Finn Benestad. Trsl William H Halverson. pp.xvi+726. VG, dj. Columbus OH, Peer Gynt 2000. £19.50

 

—— Edvard Grieg. Diaries, Articles, Speeches. Ed/transl Finn Benedstad & William H Halverson. pp.xvi+455. VG, dj. Columbus OH, Peer Gynt 2001. £17.50

 

HANDEL. Handel’s Will. Facsimiles and Commentary. Ed Donald Burrows. pp.64 incl 30 facsimile. VG exc bumped corners. Gerald Coke Handel Foundation 2008. £15.00

[incl essays by Ellen Harris, Klaus-Peter Koch, Richard Crewdson]

 

_____ BURROWS, DONALD. Handel [Master Musicians] pp.xii+491, music exx, illus. VG, faded spine. Oxford UP PB edn 1996. £11.50

 

_____ KING, A HYATT. Handel and His Autographs. pp.32 + 20 plates.VG PB. British Museum PB 1967. £3.00

 

HANSLICK, EDUARD. Music Criticisms 1846-99. Trsl/ed H Pleasants. pp.313. VG PB. Rev edn, Penguin 1963 £8.00

HAYDN

BADURA-SKODA, EVA ed. Joseph Haydn. Bericht über den Internationalen Joseph Haydn Kongress, Wien 1982. pp.xviii+641, music exx, illus. VG. Munich, Henle 1986. £27.50

 

BROWN, A PETER & BERKENSTOCK, JAMES T. Joseph Haydn in Literature, a Bibliography. pp.173-352. VG PB. Munich, Henle, Haydn-Studien III/3-4, 1974. £5.00

 

DEUTSCH, OTTO ERICH. Admiral Nelson und Joseph Haydn. Ein britisch-österreichisches Gipfeltreffen. pp.136, illus. VG, dj. Vienna, Österreichischer Bundesverlag 1982. £10.00

 

VECSEY, JENO ed. Haydn Compositions in the Music Collection of the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. pp.xxiii+168, music exx, illus. Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1960. VG, dj. £17.50

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HINDEMITH. Hindemith-Jahrbuch. Annales Hindemith. 3 volumes: XXX/2001, pp.287. XXXI/2002, pp.218. XXXII/2003, pp.260. VG PBs. Schott. £15.00

 

_____ Hindemith-Jahrbuch. Annales Hindemith. 3 volumes: XXXV/2006, pp.194. XXXVI/2007, pp.189. XXXVII/2008, pp.194. VG PBs. Schott. £15.00

 

_____ SKELTON, GEOFFREY. Paul Hindemith. The Man Behind the Music. pp.320, illus. VG, dj. 2nd impr, Gollancz 1977. £17.50

HISTORIES

BORIO, GIANMARIO & GENTILI, CARLO eds. Storia dei concetti musicali. Espressione, forma, opera. pp.399. VG PB. Rome, Carocci 2007. £7.50

 

—— Storia dei concetti musicali. Armonia, tempo. pp.394, music exx. VG PB. Rome, Carocci 2007. £7.50

 

GRIFFITHS, PAUL. A Concise History of Western Music. pp.ix+348. VG, dj. Cambridge UP 2006. £13.50

 

SANDBERGER, ADOLF. Ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Musikgeschichte. pp.vii+330, mussic exx. Good, browned contents, some pencil annotations 1st 70 pages. Munich, Drei Masken 1921. £5.00

 

SCHERING, ARNOLD ed. Geschichte der Musik in Beispielen. Dreihundertfünfzig Tonsätze aus neun Jahrhunderten. pp.xx + 481 music + Quellennachweis und Revisionsbemerkungen, pp.35, loosely inserted. VG. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel. 1931. £7.50

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HOFFMANN. EHINGER, HANS. E.T.A. Hoffmann also Musiker und Musikschriftsteller. pp.280, illus. VG, faded spine. Olten, Walter Verlag 1954. £8.00

 

HOFMANNSTHAL. Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Der Dichter im Spiegel der Freunde. Ed Helmut A Fiechtner. pp.310. VG, partly faded dj. Bern, Francke 1963. £17.50

 

HOLST. Collected Facsimile Editions of Autograph Manuscripts of the Published Works. Ed Imogen Holst. Volume Four. First Choral Symphony, Opus 41. pp.173 incl 159 pp music facs. VG, dj. Faber 1983. £19.50

INSTRUMENTS

General

PONTECOULANT, LE COMTE AD DE. Organographie. Essai sur la facture instrumentale. Art, industrie et commerce. 2 volumes: pp.320, 712. VG. Buren, Frits Knuf 1971 repr of 1861 edn. £20.00

 

ROUSSELLE, MONIQUE. Musique, Images, Instruments. Revue française d’organologie et d’iconographie musicale. No.4 Nouveaux timbres, nouvelle sensibilité au XVIIIe siècle (2e partie). pp.228, illus. VG PB. Paris, Klincksieck 1999. £15.00

 

SUPPIG, FRIEDRICH. Labyrinthus musicus calculus musicus. Facsimile of the Manuscripts Paris, Bibliothèque du Conservatoire Rés. F211-212 (Dated Dresden 24 June 1722). Ed Rudolf Rasch pp.190 incl [109] facs/music facs. VG. Utrecht, Diapason 1990. £8.00

Organ

AZEVEDO, CARLOS DE. Baroque Organ-Cases of Portugal. pp.130, illus. VG. Amsterdam, Knuf 1972. £12.50

Wind

POWELL, ARDAL. Traverso, Historical Flute Newsletter. The Second Decade, 1999-2008. pp.vii+206, music exx, illus. VG PB. Folkers & Powell / Pendragon 2009. £28.00

[incl CD "with a searchable PDF of the entire publication, including high-resolution colour images"]

 

SEYFRIT, MICHAEL. Musical Instruments in the Dayton C. Miller Flute Collection at the Library of Congress. A Catalog. Vol I Recorders, Fifes, and Simple System Transverse Flutes of One Key. pp.xxiii+349, illus. VG. Washington, Library of Congress 1982. £19.50

ITALY

ADAMI, ANDREA. "Il Bolsena". Osservazioni per ben regolare il coro de i cantori della Cappella Pontificia. Introduzione, nota bibliografica e indici. Ed Giancarlo Rostirolla. pp.xxix + [xxi+xlvi+218] facs + 20. VG, dj. Lucca, Libreria Musicale Italiana facsimile 1988 of 1711 edn. £9.50

 

BOMBI, ANDREA & MASSARO, MARIA NEVILLA eds. Tartini. Il tempo e la opere. pp.462, music exx. VG PB. Bologna, Mulino 1994. £9.50

[incl essays (all in Italian) by Hoyer, Bellinati, Ferretti, Negri, Revoltella, Degrassi, Pavanello, Massaro, Careri, Grossato, Berdes, Cavallini, Di Benedetto/Nicolodi, Caprioli, Angelucci, Barbieri, Thomson, farina, Ghiradelli, Leydi, Pinamonti]

 

CAVALLINI, IVANO. Quattro diagnosi sul florario di Francesco Buti. pp.134, illus. VG. Parma, Università/LUMSA 2009. £7.50

 

EINSTEIN, ALFRED. The Italian Madrigal. Trsl A H Krappe, R H Sessions, O Strunk. 3 volumes. Volumes I-II: pp.xvi+890, music exx, illus. Volume III: pp.xxx+324 music + 7. VG, djs. Eng edn, Princeton UP 1949. £100.00

 

GALVANI, LIVO NISO. I teatri musicali di Venezia nel secolo XVII (1637-1700). Memorie storiche e bibliografiche. pp.196. VG browned contents, faded cover. Bologna, Forni repr 1969 of 1879 edn. £15.00

 

MARCHESI, GUSTAVO. Renzo Martini. Qualche Memoria. pp.92, illus. VG PB. Parma, Conservatorio di musica "Arrigo Boito" 1981. £3.00

 

PAOLI, MARCO. I corali della Biblioteca Statale di Lucca. pp.143 + xlviii colour/b&w plates. VG PB, partly browned contents. Florence, Olschki 1977. £12.50

 

ROBINSON, MICHAEL F. Naples and Neapolitan Opera. pp.ix+281, music exx. VG. Oxford UP 1972. £19.50

 

SORRENTI, PASQUALE. I musicisti di Puglia [alphabetical with work lists]. pp.320. VG PB, browned cover. Bari, Laterza & Polo 1966. £10.00

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IVES. SWAFFORD, JAN. Charles Ives. A Life with Music. pp.xvii+525, mus exx, ill. VG. Norton PB edn 1998. £9.50

JANACEK

Intimate Letters.Leos Janácek to Kamila Stösslová.Ed John Tyrrell. pp.xviii+397, illus. Faber 1994. VG, dj. £19.50

 

BECKERMAN, MICHAEL & BAUER, GLEN eds. Janácek and Czech Music. Proceedings of the International Conference [Saint Louis 1988]. pp.xi+402, music exx. VG. [new £42.95] Pendragon 1995. £22.50

[essays by Tyrrell, Smaczny, Beckerman, Volek, Josephson, Skoumal, Maus, Freeman, Stockigt, Pilková, Germer, Hickman, Burghauser, Wingfield, Houtchens, Beveridge, Macdonald, Clark, Yoell, Iková, Adamciak, Nemcová, Stedron, Knaus, Susskind, Mrácek, Vyslouzil, Jiránek, Fukac]

 

PRIBANOVA, SVATAVA & ZAHRADKA, JIRI. Leos Janácek ve fotografiích. Leos Janácek in Photographs. pp.408, extensive illus. NEW. Brno, Moravské zemské muzeum 2008. [parallel Czech/English text] £27.50

JAZZ & POPULAR MUSIC

COHEN, RICH. Machers and Rockers. Chess Records and the Business of Rock and Roll. pp.220, illus. VG, dj. Norton 2004. £5.00

 

COHEN, SARA. Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture. Beyond the Beatles. pp.x+252. VG PB. Aldershot, Ashgate 2007. £14.00

 

DJE DJE, JACQUELINE COGDELL & MEADOWS, EDDIE S eds. California Soul. Music of African Americans in the West. pp.x+507, music exx, illus. VG PB. [new £25.95] California UP 1998. £9.50

[essays by Bakan, Eastman, Hildebrand, JC Moore, Person-Lynn, WR Collins, DL Stein, Kidula, KL Browne, Martinelli, the editors]

 

KELLY, KAREN & MCDONNELL, EVELYN eds. Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky. Music and Myth. pp.285, illus. VG PB. Routledge 1999. £4.00

MARVIN, E W & HERMANN, R eds. Concert Music, Rock, and Jazz since 1945. Essays and Analytical Studies. pp.x+449, music exx. VG. Rochester UP PB edn 2002. £13.50

[essays by J Kramer, Cogan, Moris, Mead, Folio, Marvin, Everett, Clendinning, Bernard, Hisama, Headlam, Hermann, Covach, N Cook]

 

MOORE, ALLAN F. The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. pp.xi+98, music exx. VG PB. [new £15.99] Cambridge UP 1997. £6.00

 

REYES, DAVID & WALDMAN, TOM. Land of a Thousand Dances. Chicano Rock ‘n’ Roll from Southern California. pp.xxi+178, illus. VG PB. New Mexico UP 1998. £4.00

 

TIRRO, FRANK. The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates. pp.xxv+196, music exx, illus, CD. VG PB. Pendragon 2008. £27.50

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KEYBOARD MUSIC. BORREN, CHARLES VAN DEN. The Sources of Keyboard Music in England. pp.vii+378, music exx. VG. Greenwood repr 1970 of Eng edn 1914. £9.50

 

_____ YEOMANS, DAVID. Bartók for Piano. [a chronological survey of Bartók’s solo piano works] pp.x+163. VG. Indiana UP 1988. £9.50

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KÖCHEL. KONRAD, THOMAS EDMUND. Weltberühmt, doch unbekannt Ludwig Ritter von Köchel. Der Verfasser des Mozartregisters. pp.270, illus. VG, dj. Viena, Böhlau 1998. £20.00

 

KODALY. KECSKEMETI, ISTVAN. Kodály, the Composer. Brief Studies on the First Half of Kodály’s oeuvre. pp.168, music exx. Good, browned PB. Kecskemét, Kodály Institute 1986. £4.00

 

KURTAG. BECKLES WILLSON, RACHEL. György Kurtág. The Sayings of Péter Bronemisza, Op. 7. pp.xv+192, music exx. VG, dj. [£40 new] Aldershot, Ashgate 2004. £19.50

 

LEGUERNEY. DIBBERN, MARY, KIMBALL, CAROL & CHOUKROUN, PATRICK. Interpreting the Songs of Jacques Leguerney. A Guide for Study and Performance. pp.xvi+302, illus. VG PB. [new £25.95] Pendragon 2001. £9.50

 

[LORTZING] Albert Lortzing, Gesammelte Briefe. Ed George Richard Kruse. pp.xii+301. VG browned contents, binding weak (some prelim pages detached), faded cover. Regensburg, Bosse n.d. £11.50

 

LUMSDAINE. HALL, MICHAEL. Between Two Worlds. The Music of David Lumsdaine. pp.124, music exx, illus, CD. VG PB. Todmorden, Arc 2003. £6.00

 

MACONIE, ROBIN. The Second Sense. Language, Music, and Hearing. pp.xi+372, music exx, illus. VG. Lanham MD, Scarecrow 2002. £19.50

 

[MADERNA] Esumazione di un requiem. Edizione anastatica della partitura e note informative sul ritrovamento del giovanile Requiem di Bruno Maderna. Ed Veniero Rizzardi. pp.xxii + 165 music. VG PB. Florence, Olschki 2007. £17.50

 

MANUSCRIPTS. Musikerhandschaften von Schubert bis Strawinsky. pp.184 incl [120] music facs. VG, dj, in slipcase. Zürich, Atlantis 1961. £19.50

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE

BOONE, GRAEME M. Patterns in Play. A Model for Text Setting in the Early French Songs of Guillaume Dufay. pp.xiii+326, music exx. VG. [£77.00 new] Nebraska UP 1999. £22.50

 

BRIDGMAN, NANIE. La vie musicale au quattrocento et jusqu’s la naissance du madrigal (1400-1530). pp.294. VG PB. Paris, Gallimard 1964. £9.50

 

DIRUTA, GIROLAMO. Il Transilvano (1593, 1609). Intro Edward J Sohnlen & Murray C Bradshaw. pp.71 + [8+72+99] facs/music facs. VG. Buren, Frits Knuf 1983. £9.50

 

FENLON, IAIN ed. Early Music History. Music exx, illus. VG HBs. Cambridge UP.

Vol 1, pp.vii+381, 1981. £17.50 Vol 24, pp.iv+286, 2005. £20.00

 

GALLO, F ALBERTO. Music in the Castle. Troubadours, Books, and Orators in Italian Courts of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries. pp.v+147, music exx, illus. VG PB. Eng edn, Chicago UP 1995. £13.50

 

—— Music of the Middle Ages II. pp.xiv+159. VG PB (faded spine). Eng edn, Cambridge UP 1985. £9.00

 

HAAR, JAMES ed. Chanson & Madrigal 1480-1530. Studies in Comparison and Contrast. pp.xvi+266 incl 115 music exx. VG, fair dj. Harvard UP 1964. £17.50

[essays by H M Brown, Rubsamen & Heartz from Isham Memorial Library conference 1961]

 

HARRAN, DON. In Defense of Music. The Case for Music as Argued by a Singer and Scholar of the Late Fifteenth Century. pp.xiii+175, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Nebraska UP 1989. £10.00

 

—— Salamone Rossi. Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. pp.x+310, music exx. VG, dj. OUP 1999. £17.50

 

HUGHES, ANDREW. Medieval Music. The Sixth Liberal Art. pp.xiii+360. VG, dj. Benn 1980. £15.00

 

JAMMERS, EWALD. Der gregorianische rhythmus. Antiphonale Studien (mit einer Übertragung des Introitus- und Offiziumsantiphonen des 1.Tones). pp.iv +186 + 62 music exx. VG PB, last 62pp faded. Leipzig,Heitz 1937. £6.00

 

—— Der mittelalterliche Choral. Art und Herkunft. pp.102, music exx. VG PB. Mainz, Schott 1954. £4.00

 

KARP, THEODORE. The Polyphony of Saint Martial and Santiago de Compostela. 2 volumes. Volume One, pp.xiii+230, music exx. Volume Two: Edition, pp.xii+233music+2. VG. California UP 1992. £30.00

 

LAFONTAINE, HENRY CART DE ed. The King’s Musick. A Transcript of Records Relating to Music and Musicians (1460-1700). pp.xi+522. VG contents, cover edges little rubbed. Novello [1909]. £25.00

 

LUNELLI, CLEMENTE ed. I manoscritti polifonici della Biblioteca musicale L. Feininger presso il Castello de Buonconsiglio di Trento. pp.xviii+198, music exx/facs. VG, dj. Provincia Autonoma di Trento - Servizio beni librari e archivistici 1994. £13.50

 

MCCARTHY, T J H. Music, Scholasticism and Reform. Salian Germany, 1024-1125. pp.xxi+263, illus. VG, dj. [new £60] Manchester UP 2009. £35.00

 

MANIATES, MARIA RIKA ed. Music Discourse from Classical to Early Modern Times. Editing and Translating Texts. pp.x+148. VG, dj. Toronto UP 1997. £10.00

[essays from conference, Toronto 1990 by Palisca, Grier, Sawa, Kreyszig, AC & WR Bowen]

 

MECONI, HONEY Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life and the Habsburg-Burgundian Court. pp.xxiv+385, music exx. VG, dj. [new £117] Oxford UP 2003. £50.00

 

MITCHELL, WILLIAM J & SALZER, FELIX eds. The Music Forum Volume I. pp.xii+273, music exx. VG ex-lib, fep msg. Columbia UP 1967. £13.50

[Neumann & Schachter on Mozart, Salzer on medieval polyphony, Bergquist on mode & polyphony c.1500, Mitchell on Tristan Prelude, Perle on Wozzeck]

 

SCHWAMMLEIN, HELMUT. Mathias Gastritz, ein Komponist der "Oberen Pfalz" im 16. Jahrhundert. Leben und Werk. 2 volumes. Teil 1 Text, pp.iv+420, music exx. Teil 2 Noten, pp.viii + 210 music. VG PBs. Regensburg, Bosse 1985. £15.00

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MILHAUD. COLLAER, PAUL. Darius Milhaud. With a Definitive Catalogue of Works Compiled from the Composer’s Own Notebooks by Madeleine Milhaud, rev Jane Hohfeld Galante. pp.xv+400, music exx. VG, dj. Eng edn, San Francisco Press 1988. £19.50

MOZART

Messe c-moll KV 427 (417a). Faksimile der autographen Partitur. Ed Karl-Heinz Köhler. pp. [144] music facs + 6. VG, in slipcase. Bärenreiter 1983. £37.50

 

Mozart. Bilder und Klänge. 6. Salzburger Landesausstellung. Schloss Klessheim, Salzburg 1991. pp.425, colour/b&w illus. VG exc bottom corners bumped, dj. Salzburg, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum 1991. £25.00

 

BADURA-SKODA, EVA & PAUL. Interpreting Mozart on the Keyboard. The Performance of His Piano Pieces and Other Compositions. pp.xvii+474, music exx, CD. VG. [new £60] 2nd edn, Routledge 2008. £35.00

 

DAVIES, PETER J. Mozart in Person. His Character and Health. pp.xxx+272. VG. Greenwood 1989. £24.00

 

EIBL, JOSEPH HEINZ ed. Mozart, Briefe und Aufzeichnungen. Gesamtausgabe Band VII: Register. pp.xxiv+645. VG. Bärenreiter 1975. £16.00

 

EISEN, CLIFF. New Mozart Documents. A Supplement to O.E. Deutsch's Biography. pp.xvii+192, music exx. Stanford UP 1991. VG, dj. £17.50

 

LANDON, H C ROBBINS & MITCHELL, DONALD eds. The Mozart Companion. pp.xv+397, music exx. VG PB. Faber repr 1968 of corr 1965 edn. £7.50

 

MORRIS, JAMES M ed. On Mozart. pp.vii+250, music exx. VG PB. Cambridge UP 1994 (1995). £11.50

[essays by Donoghue, Garnder, Feldman, WJ & H Baumol, Zaslaw, Wolff, Solomon, Kerman, Allanbrook, Steinberg, Botstein, Kauffmann]

 

NISSEN, GEORG NIKOLAUS von. Biographie W.A. Mozarts. Foreward Rudolph Angermüller. pp.xvi+xliv+702; Anhang pp.219; music exx, illus. VG. Hildesheim, Olms repr 1984 of 1828 edn. £22.50

 

ROSSELLI, JOHN. The Life of Mozart. pp.xi+204, illus. VG PB. [£16.99 new] Cambridge UP 1998. £7.50

 

SCHMID, MANFRED HERMANN ed. Mozart Studien. Band 14. pp.358, music exx, illus. VG. [new €72.50] Tutzing, Hans Schneider 2005. £24.00

[essays by Eppelsheim, Münster, Gillio, Eder, Volek, Schmid, Klein, Jonásová, Schick, Swanson, Haberkamp]

 

SCHROEDER, DAVID. Mozart in Revolt. Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception. pp.x+211, illus. VG, dj. Yale UP 1999. £12.50

 

STEPTOE, ANDREW. The Mozart - Da Ponte Operas. The Cultural and Musical Background to Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. pp.x+273, music exx, illus. VG. Oxford UP PB edn 1990/8). £12.50

 

WOLFF, CHRISTOPH. Mozart's Requiem. Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score. pp.xi+261, music exx. VG, dj. [new £50] Eng edn with revs/addns, Oxford UP 1994. £22.50

 

WYZEWA, T DE & SAINT-FOIX, G DE. W.-A. Mozart. Sa vie musicale et son oeuvre. Essai de biographie critique. 5 volumes. I L'enfant-prodigé 1756-1773.pp.xiv+527. II Le jeune maître 1773-1777, pp.iv+459. III Le grand voyage 1777-1784, pp.425. IV L'épanouissement 1784-1788, pp.400. V Les dernières années, pp.367, music exx, illus. VG PBs, browned edges. Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, vols I-III 1936, IV 1939, V 1946. £45.00

 

ZASLAW, NEAL & FEIN, FIONA MORGAN eds. The Mozart Repertory. A Guide for Musicians, Programmers and Researchers. pp.xvii+158. VG PB. Cornell UP 1991. £11.50

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MUSEUMS. SADIE, JULIE ANNE & STANLEY. Calling on the Composer. A Guide to European Composer Houses and Museums. pp.xvii+430, illus. VG, dj. Yale UP 2005. £22.50

 

MUSICOLOGY. HUSMANN, HEINRICH. Einführung in die Musikwissenschaft. pp.291, music exx, illus. VG PB (faded spine). 3rd edn, Wilhelmshaven, Heinrichshofen 1980. £3.00

 

MUSORGSKY. The Musorgsky Reader. The Life of Modest Petrovich Musorgsky in Letters and Documents. Ed/trsl J Leyda & S Bertensson. pp.xxiii+474, illus. VG exc damp stain bottom spine & part front/back covers, edges browned. Norton 1947. £11.50

2nd copy Da Capo repr 1970. VG. £13.50

NINETEENTH CENTURY

Hugo Wolf. Letters to Melanie Köchert. Ed F Grasberger. Trsl L M McClelland Urban. pp.xxxviii+293, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Schirmer 1991. £10.00

 

FETIS, FRANCOIS-JOSEPH. Complete Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Harmony (1844). Trsl Peter Landey. pp.lxxviii+277, music exx. VG exc 2 cover corners bumped. Eng edn, Pendragon 2008. £27.50

 

—— Esquisse de l'histoire de l'harmonie. Translated, Annotated & Edited by Mary I Arlin. pp.xlv+203, music exx. VG. Eng edn, Pendragon 1994. £20.00

 

GADE, NIELS W. St. Hans’ Evening Play Overture. Ed Anna Harwell Celenza. pp.xviii + 106 music. VG PB. [$62 new] Middleton WI, A-R Editions, Recent Researches …19th & Early 20th Centuries 32, 2002. £17.50

 

KRAMER, RICHARD. Unfinished Music. pp.xv+405, music exx. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2008. £19.50

 

PORTER, SUSAN L. With an Air Debonair. Musical Theatre in America 1785-1815. pp.xiv+631, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Smithsonian Institution 1991. £9.50

 

SAFFLE, MICHAEL ed. The Pendragon Review volume 1 / 2, 2002. A Journal of Musical Romanticism. [incl BLOOM History, Memory, and the Oboe Concerto by Richard Strauss, DeVOTO Debussy’s Neglected Fantaisie, BELLMAN The "Noble Pathways of the National": Romantic and Modern Reactions to National Music], pp.66, music exx. VG PB. £6.00

 

SMITHER, HOWARD E. A History of the Oratorio. Volume 4 The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. pp.xxiv+828, music exx, illus. VG, dj. N Carolina UP 2000. £22.50

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OBRECHT. WEGMAN, ROB C. Born for the Muses. The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht. pp.xxv+406, music exx, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). Oxford UP 1994. £24.00

OPERA

BLACK, JOHN. The Italian Romantic Libretto. A Study of Salvadore Cammarano. pp.ix+326. Edinburgh UP 1984. VG, dj. £10.00

 

CONRAD, PETER. Romantic Opera and Literary Form. pp.x+185, illus. VG, dj. California UP 1977. £7.50

 

DACE, WALLACE. Opera as Dramatic Poetry. pp.xviii+194. VG, dj. NY, Vantage 1993. £6.00

 

FLAHERTY, GLORIA. Opera in the Development of German Critical Thought. pp.xi+382. VG, dj. Princeton UP 1978. £20.00

 

HOLMES, WILLIAM C. "La Statira" by Pietro Ottoboni and Alessandro Scarlatti. The Textual Sources with a Documentary Postscript. pp.vii+92. VG. [new £24.95] Pendragon 1983. £7.50

 

KATZ, RUTH. The Powers of Music. Aesthetic Theory and the Invention of Opera. pp.xxi+224. VG PB, faded spine. New Brunswick NJ, Transaction repr 1994 of 1986 edn. £8.00

 

KERMAN, JOSEPH. Opera as Drama. pp.269+iv, music exx. Good browned PB. NY, Vintage 1956. £4.00

 

LACOMBE, HERVE. The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century. pp.xv+415, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2001. £11.50

 

MONTI, RAFFAELE ed. I grandi spettacoli. [Il Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 2] pp.208, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. Rome, De Luca Editore 1986. £17.50

[a large illustrated book, with essays by Barsacq, Bolognini, Bragaglia, Bussotti, Cavani, Clair, Copeau, De Simone, Ebert, Enriquez, Forzano, Graf, Gregoretti, Gründgens, Jancsó, Ljubimov, Marini, Menotti, Monicelli, Olmi, Pavlova, Perlini, Piavoli, Piscator, Pizzi, Ponnelle, Puecher, Reinhardt, Ronconi, Rostagno, Rusel, Salvini, Samaritani, Sequi, Simoni, Squarzina, Strehler, Venturini, Visconti, Vitez, Wallmann, Zeffirelli]

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OROLOGIO, ALESSANDRO. Opera Omnia I. Canzonette a tre voci. Ed Franco Colussi. pp.151 (incl 100 music). VG PB. Udine, Pizzicato 1992. £19.50

 

PACELLI, ASPRILIO. Madrigali. Ed Matteo Glinski. pp.42 + [90] music + 1, tipped in frontispiece. VG PB, browned spine. Rome, De Santis 1946. £11.50

PERFORMANCE

GUNN, JOHN. The Art of Playing the German-Flute on New Principles. ISBN 9780967036830 Calculated to Increase its Powers, and Give to It Greater Variety, Expression, and Effect. Ed Janice Dockendorff Boland. pp.viii + [ii + 32 + 58 music facs]. VG PB. Hudson NY, Folkers & Powell, 1992 of c.1793 edn. £22.50

 

KENYON, NICHOLAS ed. Authenticity and Early Music. A Symposium. pp.xv+219, music exx. VG PB. Oxford UP 1988. £14.00

[essays by Kenyon, Crutchfield, H M Brown, Morgan, Brett, Tomlinson, Taruskin]

 

LANE, CATHY ed. Playing with Words. The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice. pp.205, colour/b&w illus. NEW PB. CRiSAP / RGAP 2008. £12.99

[incl essays by Oliver Brown, Joan La Barbara, Michael Vincent, Iris Garelfs, David Toop, J Milo Taylor, Leigh Landy & interview with Trevor Wishart]

 

LE HURAY, PETER. Authenticity in Performance. Eighteenth-Century Case Studies. pp.xvii+202, music exx. VG, PB cover partly faded. Cambridge UP 1990. £12.50

 

QUANTZ, JOHANN JOACHIM. On Playing the Flute. Trsl Edward R Reilly. pp.xxxix+368, music exx. VG, faded spine. Eng edn, Faber PB edn 1985. £13.50

 

ROTHSCHILD, FRITZ. Stress and Movement in the Works of J. S. Bach. pp.136, music exx. VG, fair dj. Black 1966. [= revision of last chapter of The Lost Tradition of Music, with intro & appx] £8.00

PERFORMERS

CAMPBELL, MARGARET. Dolmetsch. The Man and his Work. pp.xv+318, music exx, illus. VG ex-lib, minimal markings, partly faded dj. Washington UP 1975. £9.50

 

DOLMETSCH, MABEL. Personal Recollections of Arnold Dolmetsch. pp.x+198, illus. VG, dj. Routledge & Kegan Paul 1957. £15.00

 

GOULD. PAYZANT, GEOFFREY. Glenn Gould. Music & Mind. pp.xiv+192, illus. VG PB. 2nd edn, Toronto, Key Porter 1992. £7.50

 

HELLIWELL, CLIFTON. Music in the Air. pp.vi+234, illus. VG, dj. Padstow, Tabb House 1989. £3.00

 

WILLIAMS, JEANNIE. Jon Vickers. A Hero’s Life. pp.xvi+391, illus. VG PB. Northeastern UP 1999. £9.50

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PORPORA. Sei duetti latini sulla passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo. Ed Stefano Aresi. pp.xi + 233 (incl 164 music). VG PB. Pisa, ETS 2004. £15.00

 

POULENC. SCHMIDT, CARL B. Entrancing Muse. A Documented Biography of Francis Poulenc. pp.xx+621, illus. VG, dj. [new £45.50] Pendragon 2001. £22.50

 

PROFESSION/BUSINESS OF MUSIC. EHRLICH, CYRIL. Harmonious Alliance. A History of the Performing Rights Society. pp.xii+182, illus. VG, rubbed dj, Author’s dedication copy. Oxford UP 1989. £12.50

2nd copy Another author’s dedication copy. VG exc bottom of spine damaged. £11.50

 

________ PEACOCK, ALAN & WEIR, RONALD. The Composer in the Market Place. pp.172, illus. VG, dj. Faber 1972. £3.00

 

________ PRESTON, KATHERINE K. Music for Hire. A Study of Professional Musicians in Washington, 1877-1900. pp.xxv+325. VG. [new £36.95] Pendragon 1991. £7.50

 

PUCCINI. GIRARDI, MICHELE. Puccini. His International Art. Trsl Laura Basini. pp.xvi+530, music exx. VG, dj. [new £59.50] Eng edn, Chicago UP 2000. £11.50

 

PURCELL. HARRIS, ELLEN T. Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. pp.xii+184, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1987. £15.00

 

_____ HOLMAN, PETER. Henry Purcell. pp.xvii+250, music exx. VG PB. [new £29] Oxford UP 1994. £15.00

 

REGER. BRAUSS, HELMUT. Max Reger’s Music for Solo Piano. An Introduction. pp.xvii+235, music exx. VG PB. Alberta UP 1994. £9.50

 

SANTA CROCE, FRANCESCO ("PATAVINO"). Opere sacre e profane. Ed Dilva Princivalli. pp.326 (incl 256 music). VG PB. Padua, CLEUP 2003. £19.50

 

SCHENK. TAKEISHI, MIDORI. Singspiele von Johann Baptist Schenk. pp.viii+280, music exx. VG PB. Tokyo, Academia Music 1996. £13.50

SCHOENBERG

Arnold Schoenberg. Briefe. Ed Erwin Stein. pp.310. VG, browned dj. Mainz, Schott 1958. £15.00

 

GYGER, ELLIOTT & REHDING, ALEXANDER guest eds. Arnold Schoenberg, Moses and Aron. The Opera Quarterly 23/4, 2007. pp.[108], music exx. VG PB. Oxford UP. £8.00

[incl articles by Auner, Haimo, Rehding, Gyger, Albright, Zakim]

 

HILMAR, ERNST ed. Arnold Schönberg. Gedenkausstellung 1974. pp.384, col/b&w ill. VG PB.Universal 1974 £12.50

 

MILSTEIN, SILVINAArnold Schoenberg.Notes, Sets, Forms.pp.xix+210, mus exx.Cambridge UP 1992.VG, dj £15.00

 

WRIGHT, JAMES K & GILLMOR, ALAN M eds. Schoenberg’s Chamber Music, Schoenberg’s World. pp.xiv+258, music exx, illus. VG PB. Pendragon 2009. £35.00

[essays by Carpenter, Deaville, Dineen, Feisst, Forte, Heneghan, Hirota, Keillor, McLean, Meyer, Neff, Proksh, Lawrence Schoenberg, Wright]

SCHUBERT

Aus Heliopolis - Nachtviolen - Wasserfluth. Schubert 97. Die besondere Aussellung 200. Geburtstage Franz Schuberts im Historischen Museum der Stadt Wien. pp.180, music facs, colour/sepia illus. VG contents, edges bumped. Vienna, Böhlau 1997. £19.50

 

Franz Schubert. Ausstellung der Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek zum 150. Todestag des Komponisten. Ed Ernst Hilmar & Otto Brusatti. (in German & English) pp.xxxii+[314], illus. VG PB. Vienna, Universal 1978. £16.00

 

Schubert. Die Erinnerungen seiner Freunde. Ed Otto Erich Deutsch. pp.vii+452. VG, dj worn edges. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1957. £25.00

 

Schubert 200 Jahre. [Austellung] Schloss Achberg / Stadtmuseum Lindau September 1997. pp.271, colour/b&w illus. VG. 1997. £22.50

 

Schubert durch die Brille. pp.141. VG PB. Tutzing, Schneider 1991. £9.50

 

BLACK, LEO. Franz Schubert. Music and Belief. pp.xvi+209, music exx. VG, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2003. £20.00

 

BRUSATTI, OTTO ed. Schubert-Kongress Wien 1978. Bericht. pp.389, music exx. VG PB. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsantalt 1979. £16.00

[essays by Wandruszka, Biba, Chusid, Hilmar, Federhofer, Gerstenberg, Goldschmidt, Obermaier, Mann, Dalmonte, Feil, Dürr, Budde, Mahling, Dahlhaus, Godel, Gülke, Grasberger, Geiringer, Gutmann, Van Hoorickx, Shapiro, Kreutzer, Kritsch, Zeman, Berke, Gruber, Fischer, massin, Chochlow, Schollum]

 

BRUSATTI, OTTO. Schubert im Wiener Vormärz. Dokumente 1829-1848. pp.238. VG, dj. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsantalt 1978. £22.50

HILMAR, ERNST. Verzeichnis der Schubert-Handschriften in der Musiksammlung der Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek. pp.xv+144, music exx + 105pp watermarks. VG PB. Bärenreiter 1978. £17.50

 

HILMAR, ERNST & JESTREMSKI, MARGRET eds. Schubert Lexikon. pp.534. VG. 2nd edn,Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsansalt 1997. £24.00

 

YOUENS, SUSAN. Schubert, Müller and Die schöne Müllerin. pp.xviii+245, music exx, illus. VG, dj. [new £50] Cambridge UP 1997. £22.50

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SCHUTZ. MOSER, HANS JOACHIM. Heinrich Schütz. Sein Leben und Werk, pp.xvi + 654, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Bärenreiter 1954. £17.50

 

SHILOAH, AMNON. Music and its Virtues in Islamic and Judaic Writings. pp.xii+318. VG. [new £70] Aldershot, Ashgate/Variorum 2007. £30.00

SPAIN. CHASE, GILBERT. The Music of Spain. pp.383, music exx, illus. VG, PB cover little worn. 2nd edn, Dover 1959. £8.00

 

_____ DEMARQUEZ, SUZANNE. Manuel de Falla. pp.viii+253, frontis. VG, dj. Eng edn, Chilton 1968. £7.50

 

SPOHR, LOUIS. Louis Spohr’s Selbstbiographie. 2 volumes: I pp.xv+379 + music facs; II pp. iv+444. VG PBs, cover of vol 1 browned. Kassel, Bärereiter repr 1954, 1955 of 1860, 1861 edns. £22.50

 

[SPOHR] Briefswechsel mit seiner Frau Dorette. Ed Folker Göthel. pp.104. VG. Bärenreiter 1957. £9.50

 

STORACE, STEPHEN. No Song, No Supper. Ed Roger Fiske. pp.xxiv + 130 music. VG PB. Stainer & Bell [MB XVI] 1959. £14.00

STRAUSS

Richard Strauss, Clemens Krauss, Briefwechsel. Ed Götz Klaus Kende & Willi Schuh. pp.315, illus. VG, dj. 2nd edn, Munich, C H Beck 1964. £15.00

 

Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig, Briefwechsel. d Willi Schuh pp.180, ill.VG, dj. Frankfurt am Main, Fischer 1957 £12.50

 

Richard Strauss und Joseph Gregor Briefwechsel 1934-1949. Ed Roland Tenschert. pp.324, illus. VG, dj. Salzburg, Otto Müller 1955. £11.50

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TCHAIKOVSKY. GARDEN, EDWARD. Tchaikovsky [Master Musicians] pp.viii+194, music exx, illus. VG. Dent PB edn 1976 (1993). £8.00

 

TIPPETT. ROBINSON, SUZANNE ed. Michael Tippett. Music and Literature. pp.xix+261, music exx. VG, dj. Aldershot, Ashgate 2002. £13.50

 

_____ WHITE, ERIC WALTER. Tippett and His Operas. pp.142, illus. Barrie & Jenkins 1979. VG, dj. £4.00

TWENTIETH CENTURY

HALL, MICHAEL. Harrison Birtwistle. pp.vi+186, music exx. Robson 1984. VG, dj. £7.50

 

HENZE, HANS WERNER. Bohemian Fifths. An Autobiography. pp.ix+512, illus. VG, dj. [£30 new] Eng edn, Faber 1998. £9.50

 

NORMAN, KATHARINE. Sounding Art. Eight Literary Excursions through Electronic Music. pp.xiii+227, CD. VG, dj. [£60 new] Aldershot, Ashgate 2004. £27.50

 

PESCATELLO, ANN M. Charles Seeger.A Life in American Music.pp.xii+346, illus. Pittsburgh UP 1992.VG, dj. £6.00

 

YELLIN, VICTOR FELL. Chadwick. Yankee Composer. pp.xvi+238, music exx, illus. Smithsonian Institution 1990. VG, dj. £4.00

 

ZVEREVA, SVETLANA. Alexander Kastalsky. His Life and Music. Trsl Stuart Campbell. pp.xxi+323, music exx, illus. VG exc bottom of spine little bumped, dj. [new £65] Eng edn, Aldershot, Ashgate 2003. £15.00

VERDI

BALDINI, GABRIELE. The Story of Giuseppe Verdi. Oberto to Un Ballo in Maschera. Ed R Parker. pp.xx+296. 1st Eng edn, Cambridge UP 1980. VG, dj. £6.00

 

METZGER, H-K & RIEHN, R eds. Giuseppe Verdi. pp.122, music exx, illus. VG PB. Munich, Edition Text+Kritik, Musik-Konzepte 10 1979. [incl essays by Dallapiccola, Gerhartz, Stuppner, Csampai, Schnebel, Riehn] £3.00

 

VETRO, GASPARE NELLO. L’allievo di Verdi Emanuele Muzio, da una recerca di Almerino Napolitano rielaborata ampliata e corretta. Cronoliga di Thomas G Kaufman (pp.281-338). pp.347, ill. VG PB. Parma, Zara 1993. £8.00

 

WEAVER, WILLIAM comp/ed/trsl. Verdi. A Documentary Study. pp.256, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. Thames & Hudson 1978. [a large format book, with detailed captions and over 100 pages of documents] £15.00

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VILLA-LOBOS. The Villa-Lobos Letters. Ed/trsl Lisa M Peppercorn. pp.212, illus. VG, dj.Toccata 1994. £15.00

 

VIOLIN MUSIC. APEL, WILLI. Italian Violin Music of the Seventeenth Century. Ed Thomas Binckley. pp.ix+306, music exx. VG, dj. Eng edn, Indiana UP 1990. £13.50

 

_____ LOFT, ABRAM. Violin and Keyboard.The Duo Repertoire. Vol I From the 17th Century to Mozart: pp.xiv+361, music exx. Vol II From Beethoven to the Present: pp.xi+417, music exx. Portland OR, Amadeus 1991 repr of 1973 edn. VG, djs. £22.50

WAGNER

Tannhäuser. pp.xii + 987 music. VG. Eulenburg [miniature score] n.d. £15.00

 

Gesammelte Schriften und Dichtungen. 10 volumes bound as 5: I pp.vii+293, II pp.iii+275, III pp.iii+322, IV pp.iii+346, V pp.iii+270, VI pp.iii+283, VII pp.iii+297, VIII pp.iii+342, IX pp.iv+346 + 5 foldout illus, X pp.vi+383, music exx. VG, in decorated boards with gold plates. 2nd edn, Leipzig, Fritzsch I-III 1887, IV-X 1888. £145.00

 

Richard Wagner. Entwürfe. Gedanken. Fragmente. Aus nachgelassenen Papieren. pp.170. VG, cover dulled, corners worn. Leipzig, Breitkoph 1885. £27.50

 

Das Braune Buch. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen 1865 bis 1882. [with commentary by Joachim Bergfeld] pp.251, music exx. VG, dj. Zurich, Atlantis 1975. £12.50

 

DEATHRIDGE, JOHN. Wagner's Rienzi. A Reappraisal Based on a Study of the Sketches and Drafts. pp.xvii+199, music exx, illus. Oxford UP 1977. VG, dj (faded spine). £17.50

 

DEATHRIDGE, JOHN, GECK, MARTIN & VOSS, EGON. Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis. Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke Richard Wagners und ihrer Quellen. pp.607, music exx. VG. Mainz, Schott 1986. £45.00

 

SKELTON, GEOFFREY. Richard and Cosima Wagner. Biography of a Marriage. pp.319, illus. VG, dj. Gollancz 1982. £7.50

 

—— Wagner in Thought and Practice. pp.vii+212. VG, dj. Lime Tree 1991. £6.00

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WELLESZ, EGON & EMMY. Egon Wellesz. Leben und Werk. Ed Franz Endler. pp.294, illus. VG, dj. Vienna, Zsolnay 1981. £19.50

 

WOMEN & MUSIC. BOWERS, JANE & TICK, JUDITH eds. Women Making Music. The Western Art Tradition, 1150-1950. pp.xi+409, music exx, illus. VG. Illinois UP 1986. £15.00

 

_____ MARSHALL, KIMBERLEY ed. Rediscovering the Muses. Women's Musical Traditions. pp.xxvii+304, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). Northeastern UP 1993. £15.00

 

 

 

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