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ANALYSISAESTHETICS. 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
_____ ADORNO, THEODOR. Sound Figures. pp.ix+229. VG PB. Eng edn, Stanford UP 1999. £13.50
COOPER, GROSVENOR W & MEYER, LEONARD B. The Rhythmic Structure of Music. pp.ix+212, music exx. VG, cover little dirty. Chicago UP PB edn 1963. £7.50
MACONIE, ROBIN. The Second Sense. Language, Music, and Hearing. pp.xi+372, music exx, illus. VG. [£29.95 new] Lanham MD, Scarecrow 2002. £19.50
ANTIQUARIAN & OLDER TITLES
BINGLEY, WILLIAM. Musical Biography; or, Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Musical Composers and Writers, who have Flourished in the Different Countries of Europe During the Last Three Centuries. 2 volumes bound as one: pp.xvi+405; pp.i+395. VG contents, browned edges, half-leather, worn. 2nd edn, Henry Colburn 1834. £75.00
HILL, W HENRY, ARTHUR F & ALFRED E. Antonio Stradivari. His Life and Work (1644-1737). With an Introductory Note by Lady Huggins. pp.xvi+303, illus + 21 plates. Original half-calf, Stradivari crest in red & gilt on front, corners worn William E Hill 1902. £250.00
RIMBAULT, EDWARD F. The Pianoforte, Its Origin, Progress, and Construction; with some account of instruments of the same class which preceeded it; viz. The Clavichord, the Virginal, the Spinet, the Harpsichord, to which is added Specimens of Music Composed for Keyed-Stringed Instruments... pp.xvi+420 (incl 132 music), illus, colour frontis. VG contents (many uncut pages), in original cloth, sound exc top/bottom spine damaged. Robert Cocks 1860. £200.00
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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.
[includes Xenakis with Le Corbusier, as an independent architect, his writings on architecture] £30.00
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
BACH, C P E. Zwölf zwei- und dreistimmige kleine Stücke für di Flöte oder Violine und das Klavier (1770). Ed Richard Hohenemfer. pp.11 + 18 each score & 2 parts. VG small format, spine stained, in slipcase. 2nd edn, Bärenreiter n.d. £7.50
J S BACH
SCHWENDOWIUS, BARBARA & DOMLING, WOLFGANG eds. Johann Sebastian Bach. Zeit - Leben - Wirken. pp.179, many colour/b&w illus. VG, good dj. Bärenreiter 1976. £19.50
STINSON, RUSSELL. J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales pp.xiii+171, music exx/facs. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2001. £12.50
_____ ed. Bach Perspectives I. pp.xii+226, music exx. VG, dj. [new £57] Nebraska UP 1995.
[essays by Schulenberg, Stinson, Marissen, Chafe, Crist, Brokaw] £22.50WOLFF, CHRISTOPH. Johann Sebastian Bach. The Learned Musician. pp.xvii+599, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2000. £19.50
BAROQUE
AMODEI, CATALDO. Cante a voce sola 1685. Ed Giuseppe Collisani. pp.xxii + 137 music. VG PB. Florence, Olschki 1992. £19.50
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. Aldershot, Ashgate 1998. £24.00
[essays by Ashbee, Wood, Milton, Pinto, Wainwright, Thompson, Ring, Robinson, Field, Davenport, Otterstedt, Traficante]
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
MOSER, HANS JOACHIM. Heinrich Schütz. Sein Leben und Werk, pp.xvi + 654, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Bärenreiter 1954. £17.50
BARTÓK
Béla Bartók Letters. Ed János Demeny. Rev trsl E West & C Mason. pp.466, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Budapest, Corvina 1971. £24.00
Béla Bartók. A Complete Catalogue of his Published Works. pp.40. VG. Boosey & Hawkes PB 1970. £5.00
ANTOKOLETZ, ELLIOTT. The Music of Béla Bartók. A Study of Tonality and Progression in Twentieth-Century Music. pp.xviii+342, music exx. VG PB. California UP 1984. £15.00
BATOR, VICTOR. The Béla Bartók Archives. History and Catalogue. pp.39 + 6 illus. VG PB. NY, Bartók Archives 1963. £6.00
BAYLEY, AMANDA ed. Cambridge Companion to Bartók. pp.xv+271, mus exx. VG PB. Cambridge UP 2001. £16.00
[essays by Hooker, Erdely, Cooper, Leafstedt, Beckles Willson, Fischer, Bradshaw, Losseff, Laki, Bayley, Schneider, Gillies, Fosler-Lussier, Waldbauer, Lampert]
BONIS, FERENC. Béla Bartók. His Life in Pictures and Documents. pp.260 incl 215pp plates. VG, good dj. Eng edn, Boosey & Hawkes 1972. £20.00
CROW, TODD ed. Bartók Studies. pp.299, illus. VG. Detroit, Information Coordinators 1976. £19.50
[essays by Szabolcsi, Lendvai, Kecskeméti, Bónis, Kárpáti, Baláazs, Lengyel, Bartók, Liebner, Ruffy, Bartók Jr, Hernádi, Abraham, Szinai, Hatvany, Réz, Vámos, Vitányi, Láng, Nagy, Lukács, Illyés, Demény]
FRIGYESI, JUDIT. Béla Bartók and Turn-of-the Century Budapest. pp.x+357, music exx, illus. VG PB. California UP 1998. £15.00
KENNESON, CLAUDE. Székely and Bartók. The Story of a Friendship. pp.xvii+491, illus. Portland OR, Amadeus 1994. VG, dj. £17.50
LAKI, PETER ed. Bartók and His World. pp.ix+314, music exx, illus. VG PB. Princeton UP 1995. £15.00
LENOIR, YVES. Folklore et transcendance dans l’oeuvre Américaine de Béla Bartók (1940-1945). Contributions à l’étude de l’activité scientifique et créatrice du compositeur. pp.507, music exx, illus. VG PB. Louvain-La-Neuve, Institut Supérieur d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art 1986. £24.00
OSZKAR, FRANK. Bevezetö Bartók Mikrokozmoszának világába. pp.207, music exx. VG PB. Budapest, Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó 1995. £9.50
SUCHOFF, BENJAMIN. Béla Bartók. A Celebration. pp.xiv+269, music exx. VG. Lanham, Scarecrow 2004. £22.50
YEOMANS, DAVID. Bartók for Piano. [a chronological survey of Bartók’s solo piano works] pp.x+163. VG. Indiana UP 1988. £9.50
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
CHURGIN, BATHIA. Transcendent Mastery. Studies in the Music of Beethoven. pp.xviii+413, music exx. VG exc bumped cover corners. [£41.50 new] Pendragon 2008. £22.50
COCKSHOOT, JOHN V. The Fugue in Beethoven’s Piano Music. pp.xv+212, music exx. VG. Routledge & Kegan Paul 1959. £15.00
LOCKWOOD, L, REYNOLDS, C & SISMAN, E R eds. Beethoven Forum 7. pp.xi+172, music exx. VG, dj. Nebraska UP 1999.
[essays by Fillion, Berger, Drabkin, Kramer, Treitler, Tusa, Solomon] £13.50
MELLERS, WILFRID. Beethoven and the Voice of God. pp.ix+453, music exx. VG, dj. Faber 1983. £27.50
TYSON, ALAN ed. Beethoven Studies 2. pp.xi+200, music exx, facs. VG exc top cover corners little bumped, dj. Oxford UP 1977.
[essays by Tyson, Kramer, Coren, Cone, Winter, Solomon, Kerman] £16.00BERLIOZ
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
A Travers Chants. Etudes musicales, adorations, boutades et critiques. pp.v+336. VG, faded spine. Farnborough, Gregg repr 1970 of 1862 edn. £9.50
BLOOM, PETER ed. Berlioz Studies. pp.xix+279, music exx. Cambridge UP 1992. VG, dj.£18.00
[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. £10.00
—— 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. £10.00
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 + 230 + 19 plates. VG Tunbridge Wells, Macnutt 1980. £10.00
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BERGER, ARTHUR. Reflections of an American Composer. pp.vii+270, music exx, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2002. £13.50
BIRTWISTLE. HALL, MICHAEL. Harrison Birtwistle. pp.vi+186, music exx. Robson 1984. VG, dj. £7.50
BORJON DE SCELLERY, CHARLES-EMMANUEL. Traité de la musette. pp.iii + [ix + 39 + 18] facs/music facs. VG. Geneva, Minkoff repr 1972 of 1672 edn. £15.00
BRAHMS. HEUBERGER, RICHARD. Erinnerungen an Johannes Brahms. Tagebuchnotizen aus den Jahren 1875 bis 1897. Ed Kurt Hofmann. pp.204. VG. 2nd edn, Tutzling, Schneider 1976. £12.50
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
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
CHAPPELL, W. The Ballad Literature and Popular Music of the Olden Time: A History of the Ancient Songs, Ballads, and and of the Dance Tunes of England. With Numerous Anecdotes and Entire Ballads. Also a Short Account of the Minstrels. The Whole of the Airs Harmonized by G. A. Macfarren. 2 volumes: pp.xix+iii+823 + 6 pl, music exx. VG contents, covers sound, edges little worn, small section of vol II spine covering missing. Chappell [1855, 1859]. £90.00
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
FOREMAN, LEWIS & SUSAN. London. A Musical Gazetteer. pp.xii+372, illus. VG PB. Yale UP 2005. £13.50
HALL, MICHAEL. Between Two Worlds. The Music of David Lumsdaine. pp.124, music exx, illus, CD. VG PB. Todmorden, Arc 2003. £6.00
HISCOCK, W G. A Christ Church Miscellany. New Chapters on Architects, Craftsmen, Statuary Plate, Bells, Furniture, Clocks, Plays, the Library other Buildings. pp.xix+260, illus. VG. Oxford UP for the author 1946.
[incl a chapter "Lost Music"] £9.50LONGMIRE, JOHN. John Ireland. Portrait of a Friend. pp.x+176, illus. VG, dj. John Baker 1969. £15.00
NEIGHBOUR, OLIVER. The Consort and Keyboard Music of William Byrd. pp.272, music exx. VG PB. Faber PB edn 1984. £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. £10.00
SZARMACH, PAUL E, TAVORMINA, M TERESA & ROSENTHAL, JOEL T eds. Medieval England. An Encyclopedia. pp.lxiv+882, illus. VG. [£15 new] Garland 1998. £45.00
WHITE, ERIC WALTER. Tippett and His Operas. pp.142, illus. Barrie & Jenkins 1979. VG, dj.£6.00
BRITTEN
On Receiving the First Aspen Award. pp.23. VG. Faber PB 1964. £2.00
BRETT, PHILIP. Benjamin Britten. Peter Grimes. pp.xiii+217, music exx, illus. VG PB, cover faded. Cambridge UP 1983. [£27.99 new] £13.50
KENNEDY, MICHAEL Britten [Master Musicians] pp.xii+355, music exx, illus.VG PB. Rev edn, Dent1993. £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
Anton Bruckner. Gesammelte Briefe. Neue Folge. Ed Max Auer pp.408, illus. VG browned contents, cover edges little worn. Regensburg, Bosse 1924. £15.00
2nd copy as library bound photocopy. £10.00
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. £25.00
[essays by Pass, Maier, Wessely, Mitterschiffthaler, Biba, Schnürl, Brosche, Hilmar, Martinotti, Nowak, Schütz, Werner, Grasberger, Wagner, Schenk/Gruber, Flotzinger, Antonicek]
BÜLOW
Briefe und Schriften. Band I [1841-1853], pp.xv+510, 1895 (in 3 vols). Band II [1853-1855], pp.viii+392, 1895 (in 2 vols). Band III-IV [1855-1864], pp.xviii+650, 1898 (in 3 vols). Band IV-V [1864-1872], pp.xii+582, 1900 (in 3 vols). Band V-VI [1872-1880], pp.xx+641, 1904 (in 3 vols). Band VI-VI [1880-1886], pp.xxiv+422, 1907 (in 2 vols). Band VII-VIII [1886-1894 Höhepunkt und Ende, pp.xxi+492, 1908 (in 3 vols). Contents generally good, covers sound but dulled. Leipzig, Breitkoph & Härtel. £195.00
Ausgewählte Schriften 1852-1892, pp.xvi+482 (in 3 vols). Contents generally good, covers sound but dulled. Leipzig, Breitkoph & Härtel [Briefe und Schriften] 1896. £19.50
Hans von Bülow Briefe. 2 volumes: 1 1841-1853, pp.xv+510; II 1853-1855, pp.viii+392; each with frontispiece. VG, gold-tooled compartmented spine. Leipzig, Breitkoph & Härtel 1899. £25.00
MOULIN-ECKART, RICHARD GRAF. Hans von Bülow. pp.503, music exx, illus. VG browned contents, faded spine. Munich, Rösl 1921. £25.00
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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. £27.50
CAGE. Cage Talk. Dialogues with and about John Cage. Ed Peter Dickinson. pp.xiii+265, illus. VG, dj. Rochester UP 2006. £17.50
COMPOSERS’ HOUSES. 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
CONFERENCES
DEVINE, PATRICK F & WHITE, HARRY eds. The Maynooth International Musicological Conference 1995. Selected Proceedings. Ed P F Devine. 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
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
ARBEAU, THOINOT. Orchésographie. Méthode et théroie en forme de discours et tablature pour apprendre a danser,battre le tambour. pp.v + 104 facs/music facs, ill. VG PB. Geneva, Minkoff repr 1972 of 1596 edn.£16.00
KAPOSI, EDIT & PESOVAR, ERNO eds. The Art of Dance in Hungary. pp.256, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Budapest, Corvina Kiadó 1985.
[essays by E & F Pesovár, Maácz, Dienes, Merényi, Kaposi] £22.50
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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DEBUSSY. ROBERTS, PAUL. Images. The Piano Music of Claude Debussy. pp.xxiii+372, music exx, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. Portland OR, Amadeus 1996. £18.00
DELIUS. CARLEY, LIONEL & THRELFALL, ROBERT. Delius. A Life in Pictures. pp.100, colour/b&w illus. VG PB. Thames Publishing edn 1983. £12.50
DICTIONARIES
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
LEUCHTMANN, HORST ed. Terminorum musicae index septem lingus redactus. ... Polyglot Dictionary of Musical Terms: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian. pp.805. VG. Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó / Bärenreiter 1978. £37.50
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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. [£18 new] Oxford UP 2002. £9.50
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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
ZASLAW, NEAL. The Classical Era, from the 1740s to the end of the 18th Century. pp.x+416, illus. VG PB. Macmillan 1989. £11.50
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ELGAR. ANDERSON, ROBERT. Elgar and Chivalry. pp.xi+467, illus. VG, dj. Rickmansworth, Elgar 2002. £19.50
____ MOORE, JERROLD NORTHROP. Elgar.Child of Dreams. pp.viii+212, illus. VG, dj. Faber 2004. £9.50
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
General
FARMER, HENRY GEORGE. Studies in Oriental Musical Instruments. First Series. pp.x+107, illus. VG contents, fair paper cover. no.11 of 225, Reeves 1931. £25.00
JANATA, ALFRED. Musikinstrumente der Völker. Aussereuropäische Musikinstrumente und Schallgeräte: Systematik und Themenbeispiele. pp.xvi + 320 + 40pp plates. VG PB, front cover little rubbed. Vienna, Museum für Volkekunde 1975. £19.50
Africa
COPLAN, DAVID B. In the Time of Cannibals. The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants. pp.xxii+300, illus. VG PB. Witwatersrand 1994. £7.50
KIRBY, PERCIVAL R. The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa. pp.xxiii + 293 + 73 plates. VG, dj. 2nd edn,Witwatersrand UP 1968 repr. £37.50
SCHADE-POULSEN, MARC. Men and Popular Music in Algeria. The Social Significance of Raï. pp.vii+250. VG PB. Texas UP 1999. £10.00
Americas
APARICIO, FRANCES R. Listening to Salsa. Gender, Latin Popular Music, and Puerto Rican Cultures. pp.xxi+290, illus. VG. 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
BARTOK, BELA. Turkish Folk Music from Asia Minor. Ed Benjamin Suchoff. Afterword Kurt Reinhard. pp.288 incl 115 music. VG, dj (faded spine). Princeton UP 1976. £45.00
DIEHL, KEILA. Echoes from Dharamsala. Music in the Life of a Tibetan Refugee Community. pp.xxv+312, illus. VG PB. California UP 2001. £15.00
GOLD, LISA. Music in Bali. Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. pp.xxiii+178, music exx, illus, CD. VG PB exc bottom corner little bent. Oxford UP 2005. £13.50
MARTINEZ, JOSE LUIZ. Semiosis in Hindustani Music. pp.xxvii+396, music exx. VG, dj. Indian edn, Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass 2001. £13.50
WALRAVEN, BOUDEWIJN. Songs of the Shaman. The Ritual Chants of the Korean Mudang. pp.x+307. VG, dj. Kegan Paul 1994. £15.00
Europe
SAROSI, BALINT. Die Volksmusikinstrumente Ungarns. pp.148, music exx, illus. VG. Leipzig, DVM [1967]. £19.50
SLOBIN, MARK ed. Retuning Culture. Musical Changes in Central and Eastern Europe. pp. vi+310. VG PB. Duke UP 1996. £10.00
[essays by Levin, Beckerman, Frigysei, Lange, Czekanowska, Lausevic, Wanner, Popa, Rice, Buchanan, Silverman, Mazo]
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FALLA. DEMARQUEZ, SUZANNE. Manuel de Falla. pp.viii+253, frontis. VG, dj. Eng edn, Chilton 1968. £7.50
FESTSCHRIFTEN
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]
LICHTENHAHN, ERNST ed. Leo Schrade. De Scientia Musicae Studia atque Orationes. pp.623, music exx. VG. Bern, Paul Haupt 1967. £20.00
FRANCE
Catalogue d’une très belle Bibliotheque de livres, d’une partie très considerable de livres de musique...Nicolas Selhof. Intro A Hyatt King. pp.xii+260. VG PB. Buren, Frits Knuf 1973 repr of 1759 edn. £7.50
EVERIST, MARK. Music Drama at the Paris Odéon 1824-1828. pp.xviii+331, music exx, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2002. £15.00
KIBLER, WILLIAM W & ZINN, GROVER A eds. Medieval France. An Encyclopedia. pp.xxvi+1047, illus. VG. Garland 1995. £50.00
LACOMBE, HERVE. The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century. pp.xv+415, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2001. £11.50
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GADE, NIELS W. St. Hans’ Evening Play Overture. Ed Anna Harwell Celenza. pp.xviii + 106 music. VG PB. Middleton WI, A-R Editions, Recent Researches in Music of the 19th & Early 20th Centuries 32, 2002. £15.00
GANASSI, SYLVESTRO. Regula Rubertina. Teil 1 und Teil 2. Lehrbuch des Spiels auf der Viola da Gamba und der Laute. Venedig 1542 und 1543. Ed Hildemarie Peter. pp.123 incl facsimiles with transcriptions/notes interleaved. VG PB. Berlin, Lienau 1972. £15.00
GOEHR. Finding the Key. Selected Writings of Alexander Goehr. Ed D Puffett. pp.xiii+321, music exx. VG PB. Faber 1998. £7.50
GOUNOD. HARDING, JAMES. Gounod. pp.251, illus. NY, Stein & Day 1973. VG, dj. £9.50
GREECE. BARKER, ANDREW ed. Greek Musical Writings. I The Musician and His Art. pp.xv+332, illus. VG. Cambridge UP 1984. £19.50
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
CARLEY, LIONEL. Grieg and Delius. A Chronicle of their Friendship in Letters. pp.226, illus. Boyars 1993. £15.00
BENESTAD, FINN & SCHJELDERUP-EBBE, DAG. Edvard Grieg. The Man and the Artist. pp.xiii+441, music exx, illus. VG, good dj. Eng edn, Gloucester, Alan Sutton 1988. £24.00
HANDEL
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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
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SUTCLIFFE, W DEAN. Haydn: String Quartets, Op.50. pp.ix+114. music exx. VG PB. Cambridge UP 1992. £8.00
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[HENSCHEL] HENSCHEL, HELEN. When Soft Voices Die. A Musical Biography pp.180, illus. VG, faded spine. Methuen edn 1949. £7.50
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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
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HINDEMITH. SKELTON, GEOFFREY. Paul Hindemith. The Man Behind the Music. pp.320, illus. VG, dj. 2nd impr, Gollancz 1977. £17.50
HISTORIES. 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
HOFFMANN. EHINGER, HANS. E.T.A. Hoffmann also Musiker und Musikschriftsteller. pp.280, illus. VG, faded spine. Olten, Walter Verlag 1954. £7.50
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
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Encomium musices. Intro Otto Erich Deutsch. pp.1 + 17 plates + 4. VG. Chiswick Press / Heffers, Harrow Replicas Number Six 1943. £35.00
COSMAN, MILEIN. Musical Sketchbook. Ed Hans Keller & Donald Mitchell. pp.116, illus. VG, dj. Oxford, Cassirer 1957. £12.50
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PRIBANOVA, SVATAVA & ZAHRADKA, JIRI. Leos Janácek ve fotografiích. Leos Janácek in Photographs.
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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
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BAINES, ANTHONY. Bagpipes. pp.142 + xvi plates. VG PB. Oxford UP 1973. £17.50
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BESSARABOFF, NICHOLAS. Ancient European Musical Instruments. An Organological Study of the Musical Instruments in the Leslie Lindsey Mason Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. pp.xxxiii+505+6plates, music exx, illus. VG, faded spine. Harvard UP 1941. £50.00
BRANCOUR, RENÉ. Histoire des instruments de musique. pp.iv+280, illus. VG contents, browned at edges, fragile paper front/back cover only. Paris, Henri Laurens 1921. £22.50
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LICHTENWANGER, WILLIAM et al. A Survey of Musical Instruments Collections in the United States and Canada. pp.xi+135. VG. Ann Arbor, Music Library Association 1974. £15.00
MAEYER, RENE DE ed The Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments. Bulletin Volume VII, 1/2, 1977. pp.130, illus. VG PB. £11.50
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_____ _____ Bulletin Volume VIII, 1/2, 1978. pp.v+52, music exx, illus. VG PB. £7.50
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REMNANT, MARY. Musical Instruments of the West. pp.240, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). Batsford 1978. £17.50
Keyboard
CARHART, T E. The Piano Shop on the Left Bank. The Hidden World of a Paris Atelier. pp.x+241. VG, dj. Chatto & Windus 2000. £12.50
HARDING, ROSAMOND E M. The Piano-Forte. Its History Traced to The Great Exhibition of 1851. pp.xix+432, music exx, illus. VG, spine faded (with 1938 letter to previous owner). Cambridge UP 1933. £20.00
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AZEVEDO, CARLOS DE. Baroque Organ-Cases of Portugal. pp.130, illus. VG. Amsterdam, Frits Knuf 1972. £12.50
PERROT, JEAN. L’orgue de ses origines Hellénistiques à la fin du XIIIe siècle. pp.xii+434, illus. VG PB. Paris, Picard 1965. £19.50
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Art du faiseur d’instruments de musique et lutherie. Extrais de L’Encyclopédie méthodiques. pp.ii + 186 + 21 plates. VG. Geneva, Minkoff repr 1972 of 1785 edn. £15.00
HART, GEORGE. The Violin. Its Famous Makers and their Imitators. pp.xl+499, illus. VG contents, cover edges worn. Dulau / Schott 1885. £17.50
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HERON-ALLEN, ED. Violin-Making, as It Was and Is: Being a Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional. pp.xxii+366, illus incl 3 foldout. VG, decorate boards, worn at edges. 2nd edn, Ward Lock 1885. £27.50
KÖNIG, ADOLF HEINRICH. Die Viola de Gamba. pp.iv+175, colour/b&w illus. VG, in slipcase. Frankfurt am Main, Bochinsky 1985. £24.00
MIRANDOLLE, WILLEM. De Violoncel. Haar bouw, geschiedenis en ontwikkelingsgang. pp.142, illus. VG. The Hague, Krusemann n.d. £10.00
OTTO, IRMGARD & ADELMANN, OLGA. Katalog der Streichinstrumente. pp.336, illus. VG PB. Berlin, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung 1975. £16.00
STRAETEN, E VAN DER. The Romance of the Fiddle. The Origin of the Modern Virtuoso and the Adventures of his Ancestors. pp.xvi+315, music exx, illus. VG contents, cover
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GIRARD, ADRIEN. Histoire et richesses de la flûte. pp.viii + 145 + 27 plates. VG contents, card cover very nearly detached, fair dj. Paris, Librairie Gründ 1953. £12.50
O'KELLY, EVE. The Recorder Today. pp.xiv+179, music exx, illus. VG. Cambridge 1990. £15.00
SAAM, JOSEF. Das Bassetthorn, seine Erfindung und Weiterbildung. pp.71, illus. VG PB. Mainz, Schott 1971. £11.50
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
THOMSON, JOHN MANSFIELD & ROWLAND-JONES, ANTHONY eds. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder. pp.xxiii+238, illus. VG. Cambridge UP 1995. £16.00
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ITALY
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
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, Libr Musicale Ital 1994. £10.00
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
CAVALLINI, IVANO. Quattro diagnosi sul florario di Francesco Buti. pp.134, illus. VG. Parma, Università/LUMSA 2009. £7.50
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
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
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]
PAOLI, MARCO. I corali della Biblioteca Statale di Lucca. pp.143 + xlviii colour/b&w plates. VG PB, partly browned contents. Florence, Olschki 1977. £10.00
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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. £19.50
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JAZZ & POPULAR MUSIC
CAMPBELL, SEAN & SMYTH, GERRY. Beautiful Day. Forty Years of Irish Rock. pp.ix+194, colour/b&w illus. NEW PB. Atrium / Cork UP 2005. £23.00
COHEN, SARA. Decline, Renewal and the City in Popular Music Culture. Beyond the Beatles. pp.x+252. VG PB. Aldershot, Ashgate 2007. £13.50
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
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SMYTH, BERRY. Noisy Island. A Short History of Irish Popular Music. pp.vii+182. VG. Cork UP 2005. £18.00
TIRRO, FRANK. The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and His Associates. pp.xxv+196, music exx, illus, CD. VG PB. Pendragon 2008. £25.00
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JEWISH MUSIC. HARRAN, DON. Salamone Rossi. Jewish Musician in Late Renaissance Mantua. pp.x+310, music exx. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1999. £17.50
KASTALSKY. 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
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
Béla Bartók - Zoltán Kodály. Hungarian Folksongs for Song [sic] with Piano. Reprint of the Original Manuscript with Commentaries [in English] by Denijs Dille. pp.56 (incl 6 facs & 17 music facs). VG, fair dj. no.102 of limited edn of 400, Boosey & Hawkes, 1970 repr of [1906] edn. £27.50
EOSZE, LASZLO. Zoltan Kodály. His Life in Pictures and Documents. pp.160, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Budapest, Corvina 1971.
[a larger format book, mainly illustrations] £18.00
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
RANKI, GYORGY ed. Bartók and Kodály Revisited. pp.230, music exx. VG, partly browned contents, some pencilling. Budapest, Adamémiai Kiadó 1987. £15.00
[incl essays by Gluck, Lackó, Sanders, Birnbaum, Glatz, Erdely, Vikár, Dégh, Layton, Kroó, Karpatí, Tallián, Suchoff, Waldbauer, Jellinek, Vázsonyi]
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KURTAG. BECKLES WILLSON, RACHEL. György Kurtág. The Sayings of Péter Bronemisza, Op. 7. pp.xv+192, music exx, CD. VG, dj. [£40 new] Aldershot, Ashgate 2004. £19.50
LIGETI. STEINITZ, RICHARD. György Ligeti. Music of the Imagination. pp.xvii+429, music exx. VG, dj. Faber 2003. £17.50
LISZT. LEGANY, DESZO. Liszt and his Country 1869-1873. pp.325, illus. VG ex-lib, dj. Eng edn, Budapest, Corvina 1983. £12.50
LUTE MUSIC. The Burwell Lute Tutor. Intro Robert Spencer. pp.8 + [142] facs, music facs. VG. Leeds, Boethius 1974. £25.00
LUTOSLAWSKI. RAE, CHARLES BODMAN. The Music of Lutoslawski. pp.xvi+288, music exx, illus. VG, browned edges, fair dj. Faber 1994. £17.50
MAHLER. LEBRECHT, NORMAN. Mahler Remembered. pp.xxx+322, illus. Faber PB edn 1998. VG. £9.50
MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE
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FENLON, IAIN ed. Early Music History. Vol 1 pp.vii+381, 1981. Vol 2 pp.vii+404, 1982. Vol 3 pp.ix+202, 1983. Vol 4 pp.ix+380, 1984. Vol 5 pp.ix+285, 1985. Vol 6 pp.x+320, 1986. Vol 7 pp.x+254, 1987. Vol 8 pp.x+244, 1988. Vol 9 pp.x+266, 1990. Vol 10 pp.x+313, 1991. Vol 11 pp.x+323, 1992. Vol 12 pp.x+244, 1993. Vol 13 pp.xii+306, 1994. Vol 24, pp.iv+286, 2005. All VG HBs. Cambridge UP. each £17.50
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. Nebraska UP 1989. £10.00
HUGHES, ANDREW. Medieval Music. The Sixth Liberal Art. pp.xiii+360. VG, dj. Benn 1980. £15.00
KÄMPER, DIETRICH. La musica strumentale nel rinascimento. Studi sulla musica strumental d’assieme in Italia nel XVI secolo. pp.358, music exx, illus. Ital edn, Turin, RAI 1976. £10.00
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
LESURE, FRANCOIS. L’Epitome Musical. De Philibert Jambe de Fer 1556. pp.[70+8+illus] microfilm stuck to light card + 3pp ‘Instructions for the Flute’ from Apollo’s Cabinet. Bound in rubbed leather. Extrait des Annales Musicologique Tome VI, Société de Musique d’Autrefois 1958-63. £10.00
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
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MENDELSSOHN
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. pp.22 + 38 plates. VG PB. Oxford, Bodleian Library 1972. £6.00
The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon. The 1838 Diary of Felix and Cécil Mendelssohn Bartholdy together with Letters to their Families. Ed/trsl Peter Ward Jones. pp.xxxi+225, music exx, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. OUP 1997. £20.00
BROWN, CLIVE. A Portrait of Mendelssohn. pp.xxxiii+551, illus. VG, dj. Yale UP 2003. £20.00
LOWENTHAL-HENSEL, CECILE ed. Mendelssohn Studien. Beiträge zur neueren deutschen Kultur- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte. 2 volumes: pp.190, pp.238, illus. VG PBs exc top corners bent. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot 1972, 1975. £15.00
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NICHOLS, ROGER. Mendelssohn Remembered. pp.xxI+258, illus. Faber PB edn 1997. VG. £9.50
TODD, R LARRY. Mendelssohn's Musical Education. A Study and Edition of his Exercises in Composition. pp.xii+260 incl 153 music. Cambridge UP 1983. VG, dj. £17.50
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MILAN, LUYS. Libro de música de vihuela de mano Intitulado El Maestro. Ed Leo Schrade. pp.iv + xxx + 382 music. VG PB. Hildesheim, Olms repr 1994 of 1927 edn. £15.00
MOSCHELES. SMIDAK, EMIL F. Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles. The Life of the Composer and His Encounters with Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin & Mendelssohn. pp.237. 1st Eng edn, Aldershot, Scolar 1989. VG, dj. £19.50
MOZART
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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. £24.00
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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
MITCHELL, WILLIAM J & SALZER, FELIX eds. The Music Forum Volume I. pp.xii+273, music exx. VG ex-lib, fep msg. Columbia UP 1967. £10.00
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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 (1998). £12.50
WOLFF, CHRISTOPH. Mozart's Requiem. Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score. pp.xi+261, music exx. VG, dj. 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, brown edges. Paris, Desclée de Brouwer, vols I-III 1936, IV 1939, V 1946. 5 volumes £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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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
NIELSEN. MILLER, MINA ed. The Nielsen Companion. pp.x+666, music exx, illus. VG PB. Faber 1994. £15.00
NINETEENTH CENTURY
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
_____ CONRAD, PETER. Romantic Opera and Literary Form. pp.x+185, illus. VG, dj. California UP 1977. £7.50
[HAUPTMANN] The Letters of a Leipzig Cantor, Being the Letters of Moritz Hauptmann to Franz Hauser, Ludwig Spohr, and other Musicians. Ed Alfred Schöne & Ferdinand Hiller. Trsl A D Coleridge 2 volumes: Vol I pp.xi+243, Vol II pp.iv+311. VG, title page of vol I clipped. Eng edn, Novello, Ewer 1892. £35.00
SMALLMAN, BASIL. The Piano Trio. Its History, Technique, and Repertoire. pp.ix+230, music exx. VG, dj (faded spine). Oxford UP 1990. £12.50
SMEED, J W. German Song and its Poetry 1740-1900. pp.xiv+246, music exx.VG, dj. Croom Helm 1987. £16.00
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
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. £15.00
TAKEISHI, MIDORI. Singspiele von Johann Baptist Schenk. pp.viii+280, music exx. VG PB. Tokyo, Academia Music 1996. £13.50
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[NORTH] The Autobiography of The Hon. Roger North. Ed Augustus Jessopp. pp.xii+xx+289+lxii, 10 plates (one loose). VG contents, binding wobbly, decorated boards (dirty), spine fair. David Nutt 1887. £55.00
____ The Musicall Gramarian. Ed Hilda Andrews. pp.xiii+41.VG contents, good cover. Oxford UP [1925]. £5.00
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). (£41 new). Oxford UP 1994. £24.00
OPERA
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
KELLY, THOMAS FORREST. First Nights at the Opera. pp.xvii+41, illus. VG exc bottom corners bent. Yale UP PB edn [2006]. £10.00
[Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Mozart, Il dissoluto punito, ossia Il Don Giovanni; Meyerbeer, Les Huguunots; Wagner, Das Rheingold; Verdi, Otello]
ROBINSON, MICHAEL F. Naples and Neapolitan Opera. pp.ix+281, music exx. VG. Oxford UP 1972. £19.50PERFORMANCE
CORRETTE, MICHEL. Le maitre de clavecin pour l’accompagnement méthode théorique et pratique. pp.iii + [v + 90 + 27] facs/music facs. VG. Geneva, Minkoff repr 1976 of 1753 & 1775 edns. £19.50
DENIS, JEAN. Traité de l’accord de l’espinette. Intro Alan Curtis. pp.xv + 40 facs, music exx. VG. Da Capo repr 1969 of 2nd edn 1650. £15.00
DIBBERN, MARY. Carmen. A Performance Guide. pp.xxx+310, illus. VG PB. Pendragon 2000. £13.50
["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"]
DIBBERN, MARY, KIMBALL, CAROL & CHOUKROUN, PATRICK. Interpreting the Songs of Jacques Leguerney. A Guide for Study and Performance. pp.xvi+302, illus. VG PB. Pendragon 2001. £9.50
FREILLON-PONCEIN, JEAN-PIERRE La véritable manière d’apprendre a jourer en perfection du hautbois, de la flûte et du flageolet, pp.ii + [x+74] facs, music exx, 1700. VAN DER HAGEN, AMAND Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour le hautbois, pp.ii + 65 facs (mainly music), 1792. VG, bound together as one volume. Geneva, Minkoff repr 1971. £17.50
GIESBERT, F J. Schule für die Barocklaute. pp.117, music exx, 2 tipped-in photos. VG (browned contents). Mainz, Schott 1939/40. £22.50
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. [new £35.50] Hudson NY, Folkers & Powell, 1992 of c.1793 edn. £20.00
KENYON, NICHOLAS ed. Authenticity and Early Music. A Symposium. pp.xv+219, music exx. VG PB. Oxford UP 1988.
[essays by Kenyon, Crutchfield, H M Brown, Morgan, Brett, Tomlinson, Taruskin] £13.50
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]
NEUHAUS, HEINRICH. The Art of Piano Playing. pp.xiii+240, music exx. VG PB, faded spine. Eng trsl, Kahn & Averill edn 1993. £8.00
Sections from PRELLEUR The Modern Musick-Master
or the Universal Musician, BärenreiterDirections for Playing on the Flute with A Scale for Transposing any Piece of Musick to Properest Keys for that Instruments. To which is Added a Fine Collection of Minuets, Rigadoons, Marches and Opera Airs by Judicious Masters. pp.iii + 48 incl (40 music). VG, in modern boards.[1731]. £12.50
The Newest Method for Learners on the German Flute. As Improv’d by the Greatest Master of the Age. pp.iv + 48 incl (36 music), 2 very creased foldout charts, o/w VG, in modern boards. [1731]. £12.50
Instructions upon the Hautboy, in a More Familiar Method than any Extant. Together with a Curious Collection of Marches, Minuets, Rigadoons and Opera Airs; by Mr Handel, and other Eminent Masters. pp.iii + 48 incl (40 music). VG, in modern boards. [1731]. £12.50
2nd copy Ed A Hyatt King. pp.iii + 48 incl 40 music facs. VG PB. Bärenreiter repr of 1731 edn. £9.50
"Quantz Says". The First Modern Reprint of the 18th Century English translation of Quantz’s Instructions for Improvising Embellishments and Cadenzas [with 2 page introduction by Fritz Spiegl] pp.36 incl 30 facs. VG contents/cover exc little damage bottom spine, dj partly faded. Liverpool Music Press nd. £25.00
RODGERS, JULANE. Early Keyboard Fingering, ca.1520-1620. pp.vi+331, music exx. VG exc top latter corners little bent, PB cover partly faded. Ann Arbor MI repr of University of Oregon DMA 1971. £19.50
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
VALENTI, FERNANDO. A Performer's Guide to the Keyboard Partitas of J.S. Bach. pp.viii+136, music exx. VG, dj. [new £30] Yale UP 1989. £19.50
VAUCANSON, J DE. Le mécanisme du fluteur automate. An Account of the Mechanism of an Automaton, or Image Playing on the German Flute. [text in French & English] pp.xiv + [24+22] facs, illus. VG PB. Buren, Knuf repr 1979 of 1742 edn. £10.00
VEILHAN, JEAN-CLAUDE. Les règles de l’interprétation musicale à l’époque Baroque (XVIIe-XVIIIe s.) générales à tous les instruments. pp.v+101, music exx. VG, faded spine. Paris, Leduc 1977. £17.50
PERFORMERS
The Veil of Order. Alfred Brendel in Conversation with Martin Meyer. pp.v+275. VG, dj Eng edn, Faber 2002. £12.50
CRIMP, BRYAN. Solo. The Biography of Solomon. pp.xvii+473, illus, CD. VG, dj. Hexham, Appia 1994. £15.00
MARTIN, ANNE. Musician for a While. A Biography of Walter Bergmann. pp.vi+198, illus. VG PB. Mytholmroyd, Peacock Press 2002. £11.50
PAYZANT, GEOFFREY. Glenn Gould. Music & Mind. pp.xiv+192, illus. VG PB. 2nd edn, Toronto, Key Porter 1992. £7.50
THOMSON, JOHN M. Recorder Profiles. pp.77, illus. VG PB. Schott 1972. £4.00
WILLIAMS, JEANNIE. Jon Vickers. A Hero’s Life. pp.xvi+391, illus. VG PB. Northeastern UP 1999. £9.50
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PHILOSOPHY. STORR, ANTHONY. Music and the Mind. pp.xii+212. VG, dj. NY, Macmillan 1992. £11.50
PRINTING & PUBLISHING. A Century and a Half in Soho. A Short History of the Firm of Novello, Publishers and Printers of Music 1811-1961. pp.ix+85, illus. VG, partly browned cover. Novello 1961. £12.50
_____ NEIGHBOUR, O W & TYSON, ALAN. English Music Publishers' Plate Numbers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. pp.48, illus. VG Faber 1965. £13.50
RAMEAU. GIRDLESTONE, CUTHBERT. Jean-Philippe Rameau. His Life and Work. pp.xi+627, music exx. VG PB. Dover repr 1969 of Eng edn 1957. £10.00
REGER. BRAUSS, HELMUT. Max Reger’s Music for Solo Piano. An Introduction. pp.xvii+235, music exx. VG PB. Alberta UP 1994. £9.50
RINGMACHER. BROOK, BARRY S ed. Christian Ulrich Ringmacher Thematic Catalogue No.2 (1773). pp.112+64, music exx. VG. Pendragon 1987. £9.50
SCARLATTI, A. 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
SCARLATTI, D. BOYD, MALCOLM. Domenico Scarlatti. Master of Music. pp.xii+302, music exx. VG, dj. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986. £20.00
SCHOENBERG
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, colour/b&w illus. VG PB. Universal 1974. £10.00
MILSTEIN, SILVINA. Arnold Schoenberg. Notes, Sets, Forms. pp.xix+210, music exx. Cambridge UP 1992. VG, dj. £15.00
SCHUBERT
Schubert. Die Erinnerungen seiner Freunde. Ed Otto Erich Deutsch. pp.vii+452. VG, dj worn edges. Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1957. £24.00
Schubert 200 Jahre. [Austellung] Schloss Achberg / Stadtmuseum Lindau September 1997. pp.271, colour/b&w illus. VG. 1997. £22.50
BLACK, LEO. Franz Schubert. Music and Belief. pp.xvi+209, music exx. VG, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2003. £19.50
BRUSATTI, OTTO. Schubert im Wiener Vormärz. Dokumente 1829-1848. pp.238. VG, dj. Graz, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsantalt 1978. £22.50
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]
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
McKAY, ELIZABETH NORMAN. Franz Schubert. A Biography. pp.xvi+362, illus. VG. [new £23] Oxford UP, corr PB edn 1997. £15.00
NEWBOULD, BRIAN. Schubert. The Music and the Man. pp.465, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Gollancz 1997. £15.00
YOUENS, SUSAN. Schubert, Müller and Die schöne Müllerin. pp.xviii+245, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Cambridge UP 1997. £22.50
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SCHUMANN, C. LITZMANN, BERTHOLD. Clara Schumann. Ein Künstlerleben, nach tagebüchern und Briefen. 2 volumes. I Mädchenjahre 1819-1840, pp.x+431. II Ehejahre 1840-1856, pp.v+416. VG contents, covers marked. 8th edn, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1925. £22.50
SCHUMANN, R. HOTAKI, LEANDER. Robert Schumanns Mottosammlung. Übertragung, Kommentar, Einführung. pp.657. VG PB. Freiburg, Rombach 1998. £17.50
SESSIONS
The Correspondence of Roger Sessions. Ed Andrea Olmstead. pp.xxviii+539, ill. 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
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SPAIN. CHASE, GILBERT. The Music of Spain. pp.383, music exx, illus. VG, PB cover little worn. 2nd edn, Dover 1959. £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
_____ Briefswechsel mit seiner Frau Dorette. Ed Folker Göthel. pp.104. VG. Bärenreiter 1957. £9.50
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. £15.00
STORACE, STEPHEN. No Song, No Supper. Ed Roger Fiske. pp.xxiv + 130 music. VG PB. Stainer & Bell [MB XVI] 1959. £14.00
STRAETEN, EDMOND VANDER. La musique aux pays-bas avant le XIXe siècle. 8 volumes bound as 4: Vol I (1867) pp.xiv+xiv+321, illus; Vol II (1872); Vol III (1875) pp.xiv+365; Vol IV (1878); Vol V (1880) pp.v+xxiv+442; Vol VI (1882) pp.xiv+597 pp.xviii+441, illus; Vol VII (1885) pp.v+xii+546; Vol VIII (1888) pp.xv+581pp.xii+423, music exx. VG, djs (faded spines). Dover reprint 1969. 4-volume set £95.00
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
TARTINI. 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]
TCHAIKOVSKY. GARDEN, EDWARD. Tchaikovsky [Master Musicians] pp.viii+194, music exx, illus. VG. Dent PB edn 1976 (1993). £8.00
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
TWENTIETH CENTURY
HALL, MICHAEL. Leaving Home. A Conducted Tour of Twentieth-Century Music with Simon Rattle. pp.viii+288, colour/b&w illus. Faber 1996. VG, dj. £15.00
LLOYD, STEPHEN. William Walton. Muse of Fire. pp.xi+332, illus. VG exc bottom spine bumped, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2001. £12.50
PERLE, GEORGE. The Right Notes. Twenty-Three Selected Essays by George Perle on Twentieth-Century Music. pp.xiii+310, music exx. VG. Pendragon 1995. £15.00
U S A
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
MILLARD, ANDRE. America on Record. A History of Recorded Sound. pp.ix+413, illus. VG PB. 2nd edn, Cambridge UP 2005. £11.50
PESCATELLO, ANN M. Charles Seeger. A Life in American Music. pp.xii+346, illus. Pittsburgh UP 1992. VG, dj. £6.00
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
PRESTON, KATHERINE K. Music for Hire. A Study of Professional Musicians in Washington, 1877-1900. pp.xxv+325. VG. [new £36.95] Pendragon 1991. £8.00
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. £5.00
VOGEL, SHANE. The Scene of Harlem Cabaret. Race, Sexuality, Performance. pp.xiii+257, illus. VG PB. Chicago UP 2009. £13.50
VERDI
Requiem. New edn, trsl Geoffrey Dunn (vocal score). pp.218 music. VG, clothbound. Ricordi. £6.00
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. £7.50
METZGER, HEINZ-KLAUS & RIEHN, RAINER eds. Giuseppe Verdi. pp.122, music exx, illus. VG PB. Munich, Edition Text + Kritik, Musik-Konzepte 10 1979. £3.00
[incl essays by Dallapiccola, Gerhartz, Stuppner, Csampai, Schnebel, Riehn]
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, illus. VG PB. Parma, Zara 1993. £8.00
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VIRDUNG, SEBASTIAN. STRADNER, GERHARD. Spielpraxis und instrumentarium um 1500. Dargestellt an Sebastian Virdung’s "Musica getutscht" (Basel 1511). 2 volumes: I pp.x + 469, II pp.v+154, both with music exx, illus. VG PBs (faded/cracked spines). Vienna, Verband der Wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften Österreichs 1983. £22.50
WAGNER
Das Braune Buch. Tagebuchaufzeichnungen 1865 bis 1882. [with commentary by Joachim Bergfeld] pp.251, music exx. VG, dj. Zurich, Atlantis 1975. £12.50
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. £125.00
Richard Wagner. Entwürfe. Gedanken. Fragmente. Aus nachgelassenen Papieren. pp.170. VG, cover dulled, corners worn. Leipzig, Breitkoph 1885. £25.00
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). £16.00
SKELTON, GEOFFREY. 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. £15.00
WOLF. 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
[WOLF-FERRARI] Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Briefe aus einem halben Jahrhundert. Ed Mark Lothar. pp.272, illus. Munich, Müller 1982.
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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