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AESTHETICS. LIPPMAN, EDWARD A. The Philosophy & Aesthetics of Music. pp.xi+249, music exx. VG. Nebraska UP 1999. £12.50

 

_____ MARKUS, STANISLAW A. Musikästhetik. II. Teil: Die Romantik und der Kampf ästhetischer Richtungen. pp.564. VG, worn dj. Leipzig, VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik 1977. £9.50

AMERICA

FARWELL, ARTHUR. "Wanderjahre of a Revolutionist" and Other Essays on American Music. Ed Thomas Stoner. pp.xxi+267, illus. VG, dj. Rochester UP 1995. [new £35] £15.00

 

MACDOWELL, EDWARD. Critical and Historical Essays. Ed W J Baltzell. pp.vii+282, music exx. VG. Boston MA, Schmidt 1912. £5.00

 

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

 

[MOORE] 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. £11.50

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Who’s Who in American Muisc, Classical. Ed Jaques Cattell Press, lead editor Helaine Cohen. pp.xiii+783. VG, exc top corners bumped. 2nd edn, Bowker 1985. £7.50

ANALYSIS

DAHLHAUS, CARL & MOTTE-HABER, HELGA de la eds. Systematische Musikwissenschaft. [Neues Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft 10] pp.ix+367, illus. VG, dj (partly faded). Athenaion / Laaber-Verlag 1982. £8.00

ANCIENT MUSIC

Ars Cantus Mensurabilis Mensurata per Modos Iuris. The Art of Mensurable Song Measured by the Modes of Law. A new critical text and translation on facing pages, with an introduction, annotations, and indices verborum and nomimum et rerum by Matthew Balensuela. pp.xii+330, music exx. VG. Nebraska UP 1994. £16.00

 

[HANDLO, HANBOYS] ROBERTUS de HANDLO Regole, The Rules, and JOHANNES HANBOYS Summa, The Summa. A new critical text and translation on facing pages, with introduction, annotations, and indices verborum and nominum et rerum by Peter M Lefferts. pp.x+403, music exx. VG. Nebraska UP 1991. £16.00

 

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. £17.50

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AUSTRIA. CRITTENDEN, CAMILLE. Johann Strauss and Vienna. Operetta and the Politics of Popular Culture. pp.viii+323, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Cambridge UP 2000. [new PB £31.99] £22.50

 

_____ KRALIK, HEINRICH. The Vienna Opera House. pp.200, colour/b&w illus. VG contents, top/bottom spine damaged, fair dj. End edn, Vienna, Brüder Rosenbaum 1955. £7.50

J S BACH

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied. Afterword by Walter Gerstenberg. pp.20 music facsimile + 4. VG gold/white patterned cover. Bärenreiter 1958. £20.00

 

STINSON, RUSSELL ed. Bach Perspectives I. pp.xii+226, music exx. VG, dj. Nebraska UP 1995. £25.00

[essays by Schulenberg, Stinson, Marissen, Chafe, Crist, Brokaw]

 

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. £25.00

[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]

 

STINSON, RUSSELL. J.S. Bach’s Great Eighteen Organ Chorales pp.xiii+171, music exx/facs. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2001. £13.50

 

PARRY, C HUBERT H. Johann Sebastian Bach. The Story of the Development of a Great Personality. A Biography. pp.xi+396, music exx, illus. Good. Rev edn, Putnam UP 1927 (1946). £8.00

 

YOUNG, PERCY M. The Bachs 1500-1850. pp.xx+341, music exx, illus. VG ex-lib, dj. Dent 1970. £10.00

BALLAD

McCARTHY, WILLIAM BERNARD. The Ballad Matrix. Personality, Milieu, and the Oral Tradition. pp.x+182. VG, dj. Indiana UP 1990. [on the collection of Agnes Lyle of Kilbarchan] £6.00

 

WEBBER, RUTH H. Hispanic Balladry Today. pp.xi+327. Garland 1989. VG. £5.00

BAROQUE

ARNOLD, F T. The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-Bass as Practised in the XVIIth & XVIIIth Centuries. 2 volumes: pp.xxvii+xii+918, music exx. VG contents, PB covers little worn. Dover repr 1965 of 1931 edn. £19.50

 

CYR, MARY. Performing Baroque Music. pp.254, music exx. VG, dj. Aldershot, Scolar 1992. £19.50

 

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. £7.50

BARTÓK

BATOR, VICTOR. The Béla Bartók Archives. History and Catalogue. pp.39 + 6 illus. VG PB. NY, 1963. £3.00

 

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

BEETHOVEN

TYSON, ALAN ed. Beethoven Studies [1] pp.xiv+246, music exx/facs. Oxford UP 1974. VG, dj. £11.50

[essays by Tyson, Kramer, Imbrie, Lockwood, Kerman, Johnson]

 

—— Beethoven Studies 2. pp.xi+200, music exx, facs. Oxford UP 1977. VG, dj. £9.50

[essays by Tyson, Kramer, Coren, Cone, Winter, Solomon, Kerman]

 

Beethoven Forum. Nebraska UP. Mostly VG HBs with djs

Volume 1. Ed Christopher Reynolds, Lewis Lockwood & James Webster. pp.xiii+250, music exx, 1992. £15.00

[essays by Burnham, Webster, Freeman, Albrecht, Kamien, Kinderman, Smyth, Kramer, Moore, Marston]

 

Volume 2. Ed Christopher Reynolds, Lewis Lockwood & James Webster. pp.ix+236, music exx, 1993. £15.00

[essays by Tusa, DeNora, Earp, Lockwood, Drabkin, Korsyn]

 

Volume 3. Ed Glenn Stanley. pp.xi+188, music exx, 1994. £15.00

[essays by Webster, May, Lockwood, Stanley, Sisman, Schachter, Marston, Caplin, Kinderman]

 

Volume 4. Ed Christopher Reynolds, Lewis Lockwood & James Webster. pp.xi+202, music exx, 1995.

[essays by DeNora, Knittel, Schmalfeldt, Sipe, Taruskin, Frogley, Reynolds, Rothstein] £15.00

 

Volume 5. Ed Christopher Reynolds, Lewis Lockwood & James Webster. pp.xi+172, music exx, 1996.

[essays by Tusa, Rothfarb, Sheer, Spitzer, Kinderman] £15.00

 

Volume 6. Ed Glenn Stanley. pp.xi+256, music exx, 1998. £15.00

[essays by Stanley, Kramer, Sisman, Marston, Solomon, Lodes, Gertsch]

 

Volume 7. Ed Lewis Lockwood, Christopher Reynolds & Elaine R Sisman. pp.xi+172, music exx, 1999.

[essays by Fillion, Berger, Drabkin, Kramer, Treitler, Tusa, Solomon] £13.50

 

Volume 8. Ed Lewis Lockwood, Christopher Reynolds & Elaine R Sisman. pp.xii+256, music exx, 2000. VG PB. [incl essays by Steblin, Jander, Kinderman, Solomon, Reynolds] £13.50

BERLIOZ

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. £15.00

 

—— 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. £15.00

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BELLINI. SCHLITZER, FRANCO. I Capuleti e I Montecchi di Vincenzo Bellini. L’autografico della partitura. pp.13 + 4 music facs. VG PB. Florence, Lapiccirella 1956. £3.00

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BOULEZ. Orientations. Collected Writings. Ed J-J Nattiez. Trsl M Cooper. pp.541, music exx. VG, dj. Eng edn, Faber 1986. £9.50

2nd copy Eng edn, Faber PB edn 1990. VG. £7.50

 

—— Pierre Boulez. Conversations with Célestin Deliège. pp.123. VG PB, cover little browned. Eng edn, Eulenburg 1976. £6.00

 

_____ GLOCK, WILLIAM ed. Pierre Boulez. A Symposium pp.vi+254, music exx. VG PB. Eulenburg 1986. [essays by Heyworth, Bennett, Rosen, Deliège, Bradshaw, Glock, Harvey] £8.00

BRAHMS

The Brahms-Keller Correspondence. Ed George S Bozarth with Wiltrud Martin. pp.xli+319, music exx. VG, dj. Nebraska UP 1996. [new £57] £17.50

 

BRODBECK, DAVID ed. Brahms Studies. Volume 1. pp.x+198, music exx. VG, dj. [new £57] Nebraska UP 1994. [essays by Brodbeck, Dubiel, Daverio, Notley, Braus, Beller-McKenna] £15.00

BRITISH MUSIC

Manchester Sounds. Volume 6 (2005-6). Ed David Fallows. pp.251, illus, DVD "A City Speaks". VG PB. Manchester Musical Heritage Trust 2006. £7.50

[incl Amis on Rawsthorne, Drage on Robert Wainwright, Foreman on 1828/1836 Manchester festivals, Beale on opera in Manchester, Poulter on Henry Watson / Glee Club, Thacker on Duck, Dubery on Aldeburgh, Turner on Peter Hope, Barnes on Sasha Johnson Manning, Kennedy et al on Ida Carroll, 1st performances in Manchester 2004]

 

The Musical Entertainer. Engraved by George Bickham. Preface Charles Cudworth. pp.iv + 100 single-sided facsimile pages, mainly music. VG, good dj. Sudbrook Press Harrap facs nd of 1737 edn. £45.00

 

Selected Songs of Thomas Campion. Selected & Prefaced by W H Auden. pp.137 incl songs + 20pp facs. VG, dj. Boston MA, Godine 1973. £7.50

 

ARGENT, MARK ed. Recollections of R.J.S. Stevens. An Organist in Georgian London. pp.xix+314. VG, dj. Macmillan 1992. £10.00

 

BEEDELL, A V. The Decline of the English Musician 1788-1888. A Family of English Musicins in Ireland, England, Mauritius, and Australia. pp.329, illus. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1992. £20.00

 

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

BULLOCK-DAVIES, CONSTANCE. A Register of Royal and Baronial Domestic Minstrels 1272-1327. pp.xvi+227. VG, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 1986. £9.50

 

CREWDSON, RICHARD. Apollo’s Swan and Lyre. Five Hundred Years of the Musicians’ Company. pp.xviii+310, illus. VG, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2000. £12.50

 

DENNISON, PETER. Pelham Humfrey. pp.vii+119, music exx. VG, faded spine. Oxford UP 1986. £4.00

2nd copy Oxford UP PB 1986. VG, faded spine. £3.00

 

ELKIN, ROBERT. Royal Philharmonic. The Annals of the Royal Philharmonic Society. pp.ii+192, illus. VG, fep clipped. Rider [1946]. £7.50

 

GREENE, RICHARD. Gustav Holst and a Rhetoric of Musical Character. Language and Method in Selected Orchestral Works. pp.xi+364, music exx. Garland 1994. VG. £22.50

 

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"] £13.50

 

HOWES, FRANK. The English Musical Renaissance. pp.381, music exx, illus. VG ex-lib. Secker 1966. £13.50

 

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]. £37.50

 

LONSDALE, ROGER. Dr. Charles Burney. A Literary Biography. pp.xvi+527, illus. VG. Oxford 1965. £13.50

 

PIKE, LIONEL. Pills to Purge Melancholy: The Evolution of the English Ballet. pp.xiv+361, music exx. VG, dj. Aldershot, Ashgate 2004. [new £65] £25.00

 

PROBYN, CLIVE T. The Sociable Humanist. The Life and Works of James Harris 1709-1780. Provincial and Metropolitan Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. pp.xv+371, illus. Oxford UP 1991. VG, dj. £19.50

[connections with J C Bach, Handel and Burney]

 

RASTALL, RICHARD. The Heaven Singing. Music in Early English Religious Drama. Volume I. pp.xxi+422, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Cambridge, Brewer 1996. £13.50

2nd copy Brewer 1999. VG PB. £11.50

 

RIMBAULT, EDWARD F ed. The Old Cheque-Book or Book of Remembrance of The Chapel Royal from 1561 to 1744. pp.xi+250. VG. Da Capo repr 1966 of 1872 edn. £15.00

 

SOLIE, RUTH A. Music in Other Words. Victorian Conversations. pp.v+223, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2004. £17.50

 

TOMKINS. STEVENS, DENIS. Thomas Tomkins 1572-1656. pp.xi+214, music exx, illus. VG ex-lib (1 stamp at back only). Macmillan 1957 £9.50

2nd Dover repr 1967. VG PB. £5.00

 

WILLETTS, PAMELA J. The Henry Lawes Manuscript. pp.ix + 83 + 22 plates. VG, dj. British Museum 1969. £13.50

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BUSONI. Ferruccio Busoni. Selected Letters. Trsl/ed A Beaumont. pp.xix+446, music exx, illus. Faber 1987. VG, dj. £15.00

 

CAROSO, MARCO FABRIZIO. Il ballarino. Facsimile of the 1581 Venice Edition. pp.iii + [xvi + 376] facs, music exx, illus. VG. NY, Broude 1967. £45.00

CATALOGUES

GASSNER, JOSEF. Die Musikaliensammlung im Salzburger Museum Carolino Augusteum. pp.247 + 12 plates. VG, PB cover browned. Salzburg, Salzburger Museum 1962. £15.00

 

HELM, SANFORD M. Catalog of Chamber Music for Wind Instruments. pp.x+85. Da Capo, rev repr 1969 of 1952 edn. VG. £3.00

 

MITJANA, RAFAEL. Catalogue des imprimés de musique des XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Tom I Musique religieuse 1. pp.ix+vi+[251], illus. VG cont, some uncut pages, browned PB cover. Upsala, Almqvist & Wiksell 1911. £16.00

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CAVALLI. GLOVER, JANE. Cavalli. pp.191, music exx. VG, partly faded dj. Batsford 1978. £9.50

 

CHAMBER MUSIC. MEYER, ERNST H. Early English Chamber Music. From the Middle Ages to Purcell. Ed Diana Poulton. pp.xiv+363, music exx. VG, dj. 2nd edn, Lawrence & Wishart 1982. £9.50

CHURCH MUSIC

BAILEY, TERENCE. The Ambrosian Alleluias. . pp.xiii+156, many music exx. VG. Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society 1983. £9.50

 

____ The Intonation Formulas of Western Chant. . pp.v+101, music exx. VG. Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies 1974. £16.00

 

HAAPALAINEN, T I. Die Choralhandschrift von Kangasala aus dem Jahre 1624. Die Melodien und ihre Herkhunft. pp.435, music exx. VG PB. Abo Akademi 1976. £11.50

 

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. £40.00

 

KELLY, THOMAS FORREST. The Beneventan Chant. pp.xvi+350, music exx, illus. Camb UP 1989. VG. £19.50

 

VOLLAERTS, J W A. Rhythmic Proportions in Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Chant. pp.xix+245, music exx. VG, faded spine. 2nd edn, Leiden, Brill 1960. £17.50

 

WAGNER, PETER. Ursprung une Entwicklung der liturgischen Gesangsformen bis zum Ausgange des Mittlealters. [Einführung in die gregorianischen Melodien, ein Handbuch der Choralwissenschaft, Erster Teil] pp.xi+344. VG browned contents, cover edges rubbed. Freiburg, Universitäts-Buchhandlung 1901. £19.50

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COMPOSITION. MASSON, CHARLES. Nouveau traité des regles pour la composition de la musique. pp.xi + [viii + 120 + 7 music] facs. VG exc signs of damp of front cover & 1st few pages, legibility not affected. Da Capr repr 1967 of 2nd edn 1699. £12.50

 

_____ SWINDALE, OWEN. Polyphonic Composition. An Introduction to the Art of Composing Vocal Counterpoint in the Sixteenth-Century Style. pp.iv+140, music exx. VG PB. Oxford UP 1962 (1988). £12.50

 

CROCE, GIOVANNI. Triaca musicale (1596) nella quale vi sono diversi capricci a 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 voci miste. Ed Achille Schinelli. Capolavori polifonici del secolo XVI "Bonaventura somma" ed Bonaventura Somma Vol III. pp.vii + 79 music. VG partly browned PB. Rome, Edizioni De Santis 1964. £12.50

 

CROTCH. IRVING, HOWARD. Ancients and Moderns. William Crotch and the Development of Classical Music. pp.x+284. VG, dj. Aldershot, Ashgate 1999. [new £60] £13.50

DANCE

BENBOW-PFALZGRAF, TARYN, with BENBOW-NIEMIER, GLYNIS eds. International Dictionary of Modern Dance. pp.xxvi+891, illus. VG. Gale / St James Press 1998. [new $210] £37.50

 

[ESPINOSA] And Then He Danced. The Life of Espinosa by Himself. Present by Rachel Ferguson. pp.xxxi+187, illus. VG, cover edges little worn. Sampson Low, Marston [?1946/7]. £5.00

 

GINNER, RUBY. Gateway to the Dance. pp.xii+210, illus. VG, dj. Newman Neame 1960. £5.00

 

SHAY, ANTHONY. Choreographic Politics. State Folk Dance Companies, Representation and Power. pp.xix+271, illus. VG PB. Wesleyan UP 2002. £11.50

 

SLONIMSKY, YURY. The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet pp.[120], colour/b&w illus. VG, spine little marked. Eng edn, Foreign Languages Publishing House [1956]. £8.00

 

WULFF, HELENA. Ballet across Borders. Career and Culture of the World of Dancers. pp.xiii+185, illus. VG. Oxford, Berg 1998. £6.00

 

ZILE, JUDY VAN. Perspectives on Korean Dance. pp.xxiii+334, col/b&w illus. VG PB. Wesleyan UP 2001. £13.50

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DAVID. 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

 

DEBUSSY. Debussy Letters. Ed F Lesure & R Nichols. pp.xxvi+355, illus. VG, dj. 1st Eng edn, Faber 1987. £22.50

 

DELIUS. CARLEY, LIONEL. Grieg and Delius. A Chronicle of their Friendship in Letters. pp.226, illus. VG, dj. Boyars 1993. £12.50

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

GIAZOTTO, REMO. Tomaso Albinoni "Musico di violino dilettante veneto" (1671-1750). Con il catalogue 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. £13.50

 

GRAVE, FLOYD K & MARGARET G. In Praise of Harmony. The Teachings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler. pp.viii+338, music exx. VG, dj. Nebraska UP 1987. [new £43] £10.00

 

WILLIAMS, HERMINE WEIGEL. Francesco Bartolomeo Conti. His Life and Music. pp.xiv+281, music exx. VG, dj. Aldershot, Ashgate 1999. [new £60] £17.50

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ELGAR. Letters of Edward Elgar and other Writings. Ed P M Young. pp.xxiii+371, illus. VG, dj. Bles 1956. £12.50

 

_____ ANDERSON, ROBERT. Elgar in Manuscript. pp.xii+204, illus. British Library 1990. VG, dj. £17.50

 

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY

Africa

DJEDJE, JACQUELINE COGDELL ed. Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music. pp.363, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. Los Angeles, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History 1999. £22.50

[a large format, lavish production, with essays by Kubik, Maxwell, Euba, Monts, Kidula, Dje-Dje, Creighton, Kimberlin, Racy, Brown, Simmons, Henry, Mukuna, Meadows, Keryes, Browne, Horton]

 

TRACEY, HUGH. African Dances of the Witwatersrand Gold Mines pp.xi+156 incl 120pp illus. VG, dj. Johannesburg, African Music Society 1952. £17.50

Asia

MOULE, ARTHUR C. A List of the Musical and other Sound-Producing Instruments of the Chinese. pp.xvi + 162 + 13 plates, few music exx. VG. Buren, Frits Knuf corrected reprint 1989. £15.00

[originally pubd in Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society]

 

NOBLITT, THOMAS ed. Music East and West. Essays in Honor of Walter Kaufmann pp.viii+403, music exx, illus. VG. NY, Pendragon 1981. £25.00

[incl W Howard on Yajurveda Festival in Kerala, BWade 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]

 

WALRAVEN, BOUDEWIJN. Songs of the Shaman. The Ritual Chants of the Korean Mudang. pp.x+307. VG, dj. Kegan Paul 1994. £14.00

India

CHATTERJEE, CHHAYA. Sastriya Sangita and the Music Culture of Bengal Through the Ages. 2 volumes: pp.xxiv+vi+555, illus. VG, djs. Delhi, Sharada Publishing 1996. £17.50

 

SHARMA, MANORMA. Tribal Melodies of Hamachal Pradesh. Gaddi Folk Music. pp.xi+133. VG, bumped cover corners, dj. New Delhi, APH Publishing 1998. £9.50

 

—— Tribal Melodies of Hamachal Pradesh. Lahaul Valley. pp.x+139. VG, dj. New Delhi, APH 1998. £9.50

 

WADE, BONNIE. Khyal. Creativity within North India’s Classical Music Tradition. pp.xxi+314, music exx, illus. VG, faded spine. Cambridge UP 1984. £17.50

2nd copy New Delhi, Munshiram Manoharlal edn 1997, with cassette. VG, dj. £17.50

Europe

BAUMANN, MAX PETER ed. Music, Language and Literature of the Roma and Sinti. pp.528, music exx, illus. VG. Berlin, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung 2000. [€48 new] £13.50

 

____ SIMON, A & WEGNER, U eds. European Studies in Ethnomusicology. Historical Developments and Recent Trends. Selected Papers Presented a the VIIth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology, Berlin 1990. pp.330, music exx. VG PB. Wilhelmshaven, Noetzel 1992. £22.50

 

SWEERS, BRITTA. Electric Folk. The Changing Face of English Traditional Music. pp.viii+333, illus. VG PB. Oxford UP 2005. £12.50

FESTSCHRIFTEN

ALBRECHT. HILL, JOHN WALTER. Studies in Musicology in Honor of Otto E. Albrecht. pp.viii+287, music exx. VG. Bärenreiter 1980. £22.50

 

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. £16.00

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

 

SCHNEIDER. VETTER, WALTHER ed. Festschrift Max Schneider zum achtzigsten Gebuertstage. pp.366, music exx. VG, partly browned contents. Leipzig, DVM 1955. £19.50

FRANCE

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

 

COHEN, GUSTAVE. Histoire de la Mise en scène dans le théatre religieux français du moyen âge. pp.xvi+353, illus. VG, browned contents, recased. New edn, Paris, Champion 1951. £5.00

 

COUPERIN. BEAUSSANT, PHILIPPE. François Couperin. pp.423, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Portland OR, Amadeus 1990. £12.50

 

_____ MELLERS, WILFRID. François Couperin and the French Classical Tradition. pp.526, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Rev edn, Faber 1987. £14.00

 

DUFOURCQ, NORBERT ed Aspects inédits de L’art instrumental en France des origines à nos jours. La revue musicale no.226 [special issue], 1955. Incl essays by Perrot, Machabey, van den Borren, Lesure, Dufourcq, Benoit, Boulay, Rollin, Citron, Barthélemy, Borrel, Lemoine, Paillard, Gil-Marchex, Vivier. pp.197, music exx. VG contents, fair paper cover, detached. £15.00

 

GAUDEFROY-DEMOMBYNES, J. Les jugements allemands sur la musique française au XVIIIe siècle. pp.452. VG PB, browned edges, many uncut pages. Paris, Librairie Orientale et Americaine 1941. £16.00

 

LABELLE, NICOLE. Les différents styles de la musique religieuse en France. Le Psaume de 1539 à 1572. 3 volumes: 1 Commentaire, pp.x+227, music exx, facs. 2 Transcriptions des Psaumes A, pp.iv + 169 music + 3. 3 Transcriptions des Psaumes B, pp.167 music + 2. VG. Institute of Mediaeval Music 1981. 3 volumes £17.50

 

SIMEONE, NIGEL. Paris - A Musical Gazetteer. pp.ix+298, illus. VG. Yale UP 2000. £10.00

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FRESCOBALDI, GIROLAMO. Arie musicali (Florenz 1630). Ed Helga Spohr. pp.15 + 86 music. VG, card cover partly browned. Mainz, Schott, Musikalischer Denkmäler IV, 1960. £13.50

 

GLUCK. HOWARD, PATRICIA. C.W. von Gluck. Orfeo. pp.ix+143, music exx, illus. Good PB. Cambridge UP 1981. £5.00

 

—— Gluck. An Eighteenth-Century Portrait in Letters and Documents. pp.xv+271, illus. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1995. [new £63] £25.00

 

GURNEY. HURD, MICHAEL. The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney. pp.xii+231, music exx, illus. VG, dj. OUP 1990. £15.00

HANDEL

BURROWS, DONALD & RONISH, MARTHA J. A Catalogue of Handel's Musical Autographs. pp.xxxix + 332 + [198] watermarks. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1994. £65.00

 

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

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HANSLICK. Am Ende des Jahrhunderts (1895-1899). (Der "Modernen Oper" VIII. Theil.) Neue Kritiken und Schilderungen. pp.vi+452. VG contents, worn quarter leather, marbled boards. Berlin, Allgemeiner Verein für Deutsche Litteratur 1899. £30.00

HAYDN. JONES, DAVID WYN ed. Haydn. [Oxford Composer Companions] pp.xxi+515. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2002. [new £50] £15.00

 

HEINICHEN. BUELOW, GEORGE J. Thorough-Bass. Accompaniment According to Johann David Heinichen. pp.xvii+462, music exx. VG PB. Rev edn, Nebraska UP 1986. £10.00

 

HENZE. Bohemian Fifths. An Autobiography. pp.ix+512, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Faber 1998 . £5.00

HISTORIES

Collectanea historiae musicae. 3 volumes, with music exx, illus: I, pp.211, 1953; II, pp.477, 1956; III, pp.188, 1963. VG PBs, many uncut pages, browned spines. Florence, Olschki. £20.00

 

ABRAHAM, GERALD ed. The Age of Beethoven 1790-1830 [NOHM VIII] pp.xx+747, music exx. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1982. £20.00

HARMAN, ALEC & MELLERS, WILFRID. Man and His Music. The Story of Musical Experience in the West. pp.xvi+1204, music exx. VG, binding a little wobbly. Barrie & Rockliff 1962 (1964). £8.00

 

HAWKINS, JOHN. A General History of the Science and Practice of Music. 3 volumes. pp.xxxvi+i +980, music exx, illus, 1875. Supplementary volume of portraits, pp.ii + 60 portraits printed on single-sided pages, 1853. VG exc outer pages of vols I-II little foxed, cover corners little bumped, faded spines. New edn, with author’s posthumous notes, Novello, Ewer. £125.00

 

LIPPMANN, F, SCHERLIESS, V & WITZENMANN, W eds. Studien zu italienisch-deutschen Musikgeschichte VII. pp.377, music exx. VG PB. AnMc 9, 1970. £9.50

[essays in Italian, German or English by Kümmel, Culley, Chauvin (Ratti), Dietz (Stradella), Wolff (Metastasio), Swenson, Holschneider (Beethoven), Gallico (Rigoletto), Bianconi (Vogel), Witzenmann (Marazzoli), Feininger, Lippmann/Unverricht, Bossarelli (Mozart),]

 

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. £12.50

 

ZASLAW, NEAL. The Classical Era from the 1740s to the End of the Eighteenth Century. pp.x+416, illus. VG PB. Macmillan 1989. £8.00

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HOFFMANN. E.T.A. Hoffmanns musikalische Schriften. Ed Edgar Istel. pp.310. VG contents, tender binding, spine repaired. Stuttgart, Greiner & Pfeiffer [1906]. £11.50

 

_____ EHINGER, HANS. E.T.A. Hoffmann also Musiker und Musikschriftsteller. pp.280, illus. VG, faded spine. Olten, Walter Verlag 1954. £11.50

 

ICONOGRAPHY. SEEBASS, TILMAN. Musikdarstellung und Psalterillustration im früheren Mittelalter. Studien ausgehend von einer Ikonologie der Handschrift Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Latin 1118. 2 volumes: Textband, pp.212; Bildband, pp.iii + 130 colour/b&w illus + pull-out table. VG, djs, in light card slipcase. Bern, Francke 1973. £45.00

INSTRUMENTS

BULIOWSKI DE DULICZ, MICHAELIS. Brevis de emendation organi musici tractato. Kurze Vorstellung von Verbesserung des Orgelwerkes. pp.iv + [132] facs, music exx. VG PB. Buren, Knuf 1988 repr of 1680 edn. £7.50

 

LEEUWEN BOOMKAMP, C VAN & VAN DER MEER, J H. The Carel van Leeuwen Boomkamp Collection of Musical Instruments. A Descriptive Catalogue. pp.190, music exx, illus. Amsterdam, Knuf 1971. £13.50

 

String

WOODCOCK, CYRIL. Dictionary of Contemporary Violin and Bow Makers. pp.vii + 96 + 132 sepia plates. VG. Brighton, Amati 1965. £10.00

ITALY

BONACCORSI, ALFREDO. Maestri di Lucca. I Guami e altri musicisti. pp.159, music exx, illus. VG PB, uncut pages. Florence, Olschki 1967. [incl Guami family, Gasparini, Barsanti, Baldotti, Manfredi, Boccherini, Catalini, Puccini] £11.50

 

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. £15.00

 

DUCKLES, VINCENT & ELMER, MINNIE. Thematic Catalog of a Manuscript Collection of Eighteenth-Century Italian Instrumental Music in the University of California, Berkeley Music Library. pp.x+403, music exx. VG, dj. California UP 1963. £14.00

 

DUNNING, ALBERT. Pietro Antonio Locatelli. Der Virtuose und seine Welt. 2 volumes: pp.xv+346, music exx; pp.v+260, music exx, facs. VG, djs. Buren, Knuf 1981. £25.00

 

GIOVINE, ALFREDO. Il Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari. Stagione liriche dal 1903 al 1969. pp.232, illus. VG PB. Bari, Biblioteca dell’Archivio delle Tradizioni Popolari Baresi 1971. £13.50

 

PAOLI, MARCO. I corali della Biblioteca Statale di Lucca. pp.143 + xlviii colour/b&w plates. VG PB, partly browned contents. Florence, Olschki 1977. £17.50

 

PIOVANO, FRANCESCO. Memorie. Notizie storico-bibliografiche sulle opere di Pietro Carlo Guglielmi (Guglielmini), con appendice zu Pietro Guglielmi. VG browned contents, bound together as one HB volume, cover partly faded. Rivista Musicale Italiana xvi, 1909, pp.243-270, 475-505, 785, 820; xvii, 1910, pp.59-90, 376-414, 554-89. £5.00

 

RODOCANACHI, E. Cortigiane e Buffoni di Roma pp.156. Fair PB. Milan, Pervinca [1927]. £3.00

 

SORRENTI, PASQUALE. I musicisti di Puglia [alphabetical with work lists]. pp.320. VG PB, browned cover. Bari, Laterza & Polo 1966. £13.50

JAZZ & POPULAR MUSIC

 

KELLY, KAREN & MCDONNELL, EVELYN eds. Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky. Music and Myth. pp.285, illus. VG PB. Routledge 1999. £7.50

 

LAWRENCE, A H. Duke Ellington and his World. A Biography. pp.xvii+492, illus. VG, dj. Routledge 2001. £15.00

KEYBOARD MUSIC

BARFORD, PHILIP. The Keyboard Music of C.P.E. Bach, Considered in Relation to his Musical Aesthetic and the Rise of the Sonata Principle. pp.xv+186, music exx. VG, good dj, Barrie & Rockliff 1965. £17.50

 

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

 

HARDY, LISA. The British Piano Sonata 1870-1945. pp.xix+252, music exx. VG. [new £50] Woodbridge, Boydell 2001. £22.50

 

NEIGHBOUR, OLIVER. The Consort and Keyboard Music of William Byrd. pp.272, music exx. VG, dj. California UP 1978. £9.50

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LEODIENSIS, LEO. Speculum musicae. 6 volumes. Ed Roger Bragard. I (Liber primus) pp.viii+229, 1959. II (Liber secundus) pp.iv+309; Liber secundus - Appendix pp.i + [lxxix] music facsimile, both 1961. III (Liber tertius) pp.vi+163, 1963. IV (Liber quartus) pp.v+126, 1965.V (Liber quintus) pp.v+184, 1968. VG PBs, many uncut pages. [new $489] American Institute of Musicology, CSM 3. £75.00

 

LIEGE. AUDA, ANTOINE. La musique et les musiciens de l’ancien Pays de Liége. Essai bio-bibliographique sur la Musique Liégeoise depuis ses origines jusqu’à la fin de la Principauté (1800). pp.292 + 19 illus. VG contents, in flimsy thick paper cover, partly disbound. Brussels, Librairie Saint-Georges 1930 .£15.00

 

LISZT. ECKHARDT, MARIA. Franz Liszt's Music Manuscripts in the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. pp.252, music exx. VG, corners littled bumped, dj. Akadémiai Kiadó 1986. £15.00

 

LUTE MUSIC. DORFMULLER, KURT. Studien zur Lautenmusik in der ersten Hälfte des 16. Jahrhunderts. pp.205, music exx, illus. VG. Tutzing, Hans Schneider 1967. £17.50

MADRIGAL

[BRUDIEU] Els madrigals i la Missa de difunts d’en Brudieu. Transcripció i notes históriques i crítiques Felip Pedrell & Higini Anglés. pp.162, music exx + 244 music. VG PB, browned spine. Barcelona, Institut d’Estudis Catalans 1921. £19.50

 

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 ex-lib (bookplates feps only), spine vols 1 & 2 a little faded. Eng edn, Princeton UP 1949. £90.00

 

MONTEVERDI. Madrigali e canzonette. Libro nono. Edizione critica di Anna Maria Monterosso Vacchelli. pp.54 + 24 music facs + 120 music trscr. VG, cloth cover, in light card slipcase. No.289 of numbered edition of 1000, Cremona, Fondazione Claudio Monteverdi 1983. £50.00

 

PACELLI, ASPRILIO. Madrigali. Ed Matteo Glinski. pp.42 + [90] music + 1, tipped in frontispiece. VG PB, browned spine. Rome, De Santis 1946. £15.00

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MARENZIO. ARNOLD, DENIS. Marenzio. pp.iv+45, music exx. Oxford UP 1965. VG, cover partly faded. £5.00

 

MARTINI. MARCHESI, GUSTAVO. Renzo Martini. Qualche Memoria. pp.92, illus. VG PB. Parma, Conservatorio di musica "Arrigo Boito" 1981. £4.00

 

MASSENET. HARDING, JAMES. Massenet. pp.229, music exx, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). NY, St Martin’s 1970. £13.50

 

MATTHESON. CANNON, BEEKMAN C. Johann Mattheson. Spectator in Music. pp.xv+244, illus. VG, dj. Archon reprint 1968 of 1947 edn. £15.00

MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE

Occo Codex (Brussels, Royal Library Albert I, MS.IV.922). Introd B Huys & S d van Heel. pp.xxix + 304 sepia facsimile. VG. Buren, Knuf / VNM 1979. £50.00

 

GAUTIER, LEON. Histoire de la poésie liturgique au moyen age. Les tropes. pp.viii+280, illus. VG. Farnborough, Gregg repr 1965 (1969) of 1886 edn. £19.50

 

HAAR, JAMES ed. Chanson & Madrigal 1480-1530. Studies in Comparison and Contract. pp.xvi+266 incl 115 music exx. VG, fair dj. Harvard UP 1964. £25.00

[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. £12.50

 

JAMMERS, EWALD. Der gregorianische rhythmus. Antiphonale Studien (mit einer Ubertragung des Introitus- und Offiziumsantiphonen des 1.Tones). pp.iv +186 + 62 music exx. VG PB, last 62pp browned. Leipzig, Heitz 1937. £7.50

 

—— Der mittelalterliche Choral. Art und Herkunft. pp.102, music exx. VG PB. Mainz, Schott 1954. £6.00

 

JOHNER, P DOMINICUS. Wort und Ton im Choral. Ein Beitrag zur Aesthetik des gregorianischen Gesanges. pp.xv+482, music exx incl some foldout. VG exc back cover corners damaged. 2nd edn, Leipzig, Breitkopf & Härtel 1953. £24.00

 

LESURE, FRANCOIS ed. La Renaissance dans les Provinces du Nord (Picardie - Artois - Flandres - Brabant - Hainaut). pp.221. VG, cover little dirty. Paris, CNRS 1956. £20.00

 

POPE, ISABEL & KANAZAWA, MASAKATA eds. The Musical Manuscript Montecassino 871. A Neapolitan Repertory of Sacred and Secular Music of the Late Fifteenth Century. pp.xxiii+676 incl 435 music, 16 plates. VG, dj. Oxford UP 1978. £85.00

 

SCHRADE, LEO. La représentation d’Edipo Tiranno au teatro Olimpico (Vicence 1585). Etude suivie d’une édition critique de la tragédie de Sophocle par Orsatto Giustiniani et de la musiqe des choeurs par Andrea Gabrieli. pp.246 incl 83pp music. VG. Paris, CNRS 1960. £35.00

 

WALKER, D P. Studies in Musical Science in the Late Renaissance. pp.vii+174, music exx. VG. Warburg Institute / Leiden, Brill 1978. £30.00

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MESSIAEN. SAMUEL, CLAUDE. Conversations with Olivier Messiaen. Trsl Felix Aprahamian. pp.iii+140. VG, browned dj. Eng edn, Stainer & Bell 1976. £15.00

 

METASTASIO. RMA Research Chronicle Volume 40 (2007). BURDEN, MICHAEL. Metastasio on the London Stage, 1728 to 1840. A Catalogue. pp.390, illus. NEW PB. Royal Musical Association, RMA Research Chronicle complete issue.£59.00

 

MEYERBEER. BECKER, HEINZ & GUDRUN. Giacomo Meyerbeer. A Life in Letters. Trsl M Violette. pp.215, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Helm 1989. £9.50

 

MONTEVERDI. CHAFE, ERIC. Monteverdi's Tonal Language. pp.xviii+442, music exx. VG, dj. NY, Schirmer 1992. £22.50

 

 

_____ WHENHAM, JOHN. Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo. pp.xiv+216, music exx, illus. VG PB. Camb UP 1986. £11.50

MOZART

Mozart. [in French] pp.302, illus (incl some colour, tipped in). VG. Paris, Hachette 1964. £5.00

[B Gavoty, A Kern, A Goléa, G Piroué, J Bourgeois, M Guiomar, C de Nys, J Barraqué, C Samuel, G Bauer]

 

Mozart’s Letters, Mozart’s Life. Selected Letters. Ed/trsl Robert Spaethling. pp.xiii+479. VG, dj. Norton 2000. £12.50

 

Mozart-Jahrbuch 1989/90. Des Zentralinstitutes für Mozartforschung der Internationalen Stiftung Mozarteum. pp.307, music exx. VG. Bärenreiter 1990. £9.50

[essays, mainly in German, by Petrobelli, Riekmann, Schmid, Mann, Hortschansky, Schnepel, Campana, Emerson, Konrad, Strebel, Kreutzer, Schaal]

 

ANGERMULLER, RUDOLPH. Antonio Salieri. Fatti e documenti. pp.221, music exx, few colour illus. VG, dj. Verona, Risparmio 1985. £19.50

 

ELIAS, NORBERT. Mozart. Portrait of A Genius. pp.vi+152. VG, dj. Eng edn, Oxford, Polity 1993. £7.50

 

HUTCHINGS, ARTHUR. Mozart. The Man. The Musician. pp.vii+131, colour/b&w illus. VG, inscr fep, fair dj. Thames & Hudson 1976 (1978). [a larger format book] £9.50

 

JENKINS, JOHN. Mozart and the English Connection. pp.xii+171, illus. VG, dj. Cygnust/ Cockerel 1998. £7.50

 

KAISER, JOACHIM. Who’s Who in Mozart’s Operas. From Alfonso to Zerlina. pp.xi+212. VG, dj. NY, Schirmer 1986. £7.50

 

KOCHEL, LUDWIG RITTER von. Der kleine Köchel. Chronologisches und systematisches Verzeichnis sämtlicher musikalischen Werke von Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. pp.97, music exx. VG, PB cover partly faded. 8th edn, Wiesbaden, Breitkopf 1975. £4.00

 

MORIKE, EDUARD. Mozart’s Journey to Prague. Selected Poems. Translated with Introduction by David Luke. pp.xxxix+224. VG, dj. Libris 1997. £7.50

 

ROSSELLI, JOHN. The Life of Mozart. pp.xi+204, illus. VG PB. [£16.99 new] Cambridge UP 1998. £9.50

 

RUSHTON, JULIAN. Mozart [Master Musicians]. pp.xi+306, music exx. VG, dj. Oxford UP 2006. £11.50

 

—— W. A. Mozart. Idomeneo. pp.x+187, music exx, illus. VG PB. Cambridge UP 1993. £7.50

 

SCHROEDER, DAVID. Mozart in Revolt. Strategies of Resistance, Mischief and Deception. pp.x+211, illus. VG, dj. Yale UP 1999. £9.50

 

SINGER, IRVING. Mozart & Beethoven. The Concept of Love in their Operas. pp.xii+156. VG, dj. Johns Hopkins UP 1977. £7.50

Musica Britannica

II LOCKE, MATTHEW & GIBBONS, CHRISTOPHER. Cupid and Death. Ed Edward J Dent pp.xii + 77 music + 2, 1951. £15.00

 

III ARNE, THOMAS. Comus. Ed Julian Herbage. pp.xx + 159 + 2, 1951. £19.50

 

XVI STORACE, STEPHEN. No Song, No Supper. Ed Roger Fiske. pp.xxiv + 130 music, 1959. £17.50

 

XVII FIELD, JOHN. Piano Concertos. Ed Frank Merrick. pp.xviii + 186 music + 10, 1961. £22.50

 

XXV DERING, RICHARD. Secular Vocal Music. Trscr/ed Peter Platt. pp.xix + 105 music + 5, 1969. £17.50

 

XXX LINLEY, THOMAS. Shakespeare Ode. Ed Gwilym Beechey. pp.xxiv + 180 music + 2, 1970. £19.50

MUSICAL BOXES

CLARK, JOHN E T. Musical Boxes. A History and Appreciation. pp.264, illus. VG, dj. 3rd edn, Allen & Unwin 1961. £9.50

 

WEBB, GRAHAM. The Cylinder Musical Box Handbook. pp.176, illus. Faber 1968. £7.50

MUSICOLOGY

FISCHER, KURT VON. Essays in Musicology. pp.189, music exx. VG PB exc spine little damaged. Eng edn, CUNY Graduate School 1989. £9.50

[incl essays on the Passion to 16C, de Vitry, 14C Italy, on Beethoven (3), Schubert, Mahler, Honegger]

 

SCHWARZ, D, KASSABIAN, A & SIEGEL, L eds. Keeping Score. Music, Disciplinarity, Culture. pp.xi+307, music exx. VG PB. Virginia UP 1997. £7.50

[essays by McCreless, McClary, Covach, Cohen, Hooker, Stockfelt, Walser, Winkler, Rycenga, Kallick, Kassabian, Schwarz]

 

SEEGER, CHARLES. Studies in Musicology 1935-1975. pp.vii+357, music exx, illus. VG, dj. California UP 1977. £17.50

 

YUNG, BELL & REES, HELEN ed. Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in American Musicology. pp.xi+192. VG, dj. Illinois UP 1999. £12.50

NINETEENTH CENTURY

ALBAROSA, NINO et al. Amilcare Ponchielli 1834-1886. Saggi e ricerche nel 150º anniversario della nascita. pp.373, colour/b&w illus. VG, dj. Case Rurale ed Artigiana di Casalmorano 1984. £10.00

 

COOKE, DERYCK. Vindications. Essays on Romantic Music. pp.226, music exx. VG. Faber 1982. £9.50

 

COTTRELL, ALAN P. Wilhelm Müller’s Lyrical Song-Cycles. Interpretations and Texts. pp.v+170. VG. UNC Press 1970. £16.00

 

LESURE, FRANCOIS ed. La musique dans le midi de la France. Tom II, XIXe siècle. Actes des Rencontres de Villecroze 16 a 18 mai 1996. pp.325. VG PB. Paris, Klincksieck 1997. £13.50

[essays by Lesure, Gelbseiden, Jeanselme, Hondré, Echinard, L’Ecuyer, Morel-Borotra, Signorile, Escoffier, Bèges, Bergadà, Guillot,

 

MATENKO, P, ZEYDEL, E H & MASCHE, B M eds. Letters to and from Ludwig Tieck and his Circle. pp.xxiii+394. VG. UNC Press n.d. £22.50

 

NEIGHBOUR, O W & TYSON, ALAN. English Music Publishers' Plate Numbers in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. pp.48, illus. Faber 1965. VG, dj. £13.50

 

RINGER, ALEXANDER. The Early Romantic Era. Between Revolutions: 1789 and 1848. pp.x+325, illus. VG, dj (faded spine). Prentice Hall 1991. £24.00

 

SCHIEDERMAIR, LUDWIG. Beiträge zur Geschichte der Oper um die Wende des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts. Simon Mayr. 2 PB volumes, hardbound as one: pp.vii+264, pp.vii+198, music exx, illus. VG. Breitkopf & Härtel 1907, 1910. £19.50

 

WARING, DENNIS G. Manufacturing the Muse. Estey Organs & Consumer Culture in Victorian America. pp.xix+356, illus, CD. VG PB. Wesleyan UP 2002. £9.50

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NOTATION APEL, WILLI. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600. pp.xxv+462, music exx/facs + 28 music. VG, covers edges a little worn. 4th edn, Cambridge MA, Mediaeval Academy of America 1949. £22.50

 

_____ READ, GARDNER. Music Notation. A Manual of Modern Practice. pp.x+482, music exx. VG, dj. Gollancz 1969. £19.50

OPERA

ABBATE, CAROLYN. Unsung Voices. Opera and Musical Narrative in the Nineteenth Century. pp.xvi+288, music exx. VG, dj. Princeton UP 1991. £13.50

 

DACE, WALLACE. Opera as Dramatic Poetry. pp.xviii+194. VG, dj. NY, Vantage 1993. £5.00

 

FULCHER, JANE F. The Nation’s Image. French Grand Opera as Politics and Politicized Art. pp.x+280, illus. VG, dj Cambridge UP 1987. £17.50

 

LACOMBE, HERVE. The Keys to French Opera in the Nineteenth Century. pp.xv+415, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2001. £12.50

 

LAVALLIERE, LOUIS-CESAR DE LA-BEAUME-LE-BLANC. Ballets, opéra, et autres ouvrages lyriques, par order chronologique depuis leur origine; avec une table alphabetique des ouvrages et des auteurs. pp.ii + vi + 300 facs. VG. Baron repr 1967 of 1760 edn. £13.50

 

ROBINSON, MICHAEL F. Naples and Neapolitan Opera. pp.ix+281, music exx. VG, dj (partly faded). Oxford UP 1972. £17.50

 

SCHMIDGALL, GARY. Literature as Opera. pp.xi+431, music exx. VG. Oxford UP 1977. £11.50

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ORATORIO. 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. £17.50

 

____ ____ 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. £17.50

 

PERFORMANCE

BARBER, JOSEPHINE. German for Musicians. pp.xv+277, illus. VG PB. Faber 1985. £9.50

 

BOYDEN, DAVID D. The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761 and its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music. pp.xxiv+569 + 40 plates, music exx. VG PB. Oxford UP PB edn 1990. £19.50

 

DELUSSE, Monsieur. L’art de la flûte traversière. Intro/notes Greta Moens-Haenen. pp.iv + vi + 12 + 45 facs/music facs. VG. Buren, Frits Knuf repr 1980 of 1760 edn. £10.00

 

DONINGTON, ROBERT. A Performer’s Guide to Baroque Music.pp.320, music exx. VG ex-lib, fep missing, dj. Faber 1973. £13.50

 

HARDING, ROSAMOND E M. The Metronome and It's [sic] Precursors. pp.vii+37, music exx, illus. VG, edges little rubbed. Henley-on-Thames, Gresham repr 1983 of 1938 edn. £8.00

 

LEPPARD, RAYMOND. Authenticity in Music. pp.iii+80, music exx. Faber 1988. VG PB. £5.00

 

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. £15.00

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PUCCINI. Carteggi Pucciniani. Ed Eugenio Gara. Il carteggo Illica - Puccini - Ricordi è stato ed Mario Morini e la discografia ed Raffaele Végeto. pp.xxiv+745, illus. VG. Milan, Ricordi 1958. £19.50

 

_____GIRARDI, MICHELE. Puccini. His International Art. Trsl Laura Basini. pp.xvi+530, music exx. VG, dj. Eng edn, Chicago UP 2000. [new PB £28.50] £13.50

 

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

 

ROSSI. GHISLANZONI, ALBERTO. Luigi Rossi. Biografia e analisi delle composizioni. pp.323 (incl 100pp thematic catalogue), illus. VG browned contents, fragile PB cover. Milan, Bocca 1954. £10.00

 

ROSSINI. JOHN, NICHOLAS ed. Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville / Moses. Il Barbiere di Siviglia / Moïse et Pharaon. pp.160, music exx, illus. VG PB. Calder [Opera Guide Series] 1985/2004. £6.00

[incl essays by Gossett, Rosselli, Spada, Gardini]

RUSSIA

TARUSKIN, RICHARD F. Opera and Drama in Russia as Preached and Practiced in the 1860s. pp.xxi+560, music exx. VG. Rochester UP edn 1993. £20.00

 

ZVEREVA, SVETLANA. Alexander Kastalsky. His Life and Music. Trsl Stuart Campbell. pp.xxi+323, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Aldershot, Ashgate 2003. [new £60] £19.50

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SCHOECK. FOLLMI, BEAT A ed. Die Worte vergrössern. Berich über das zweite Internationale Symposium Othmar Schoeck in Luzern...1999. pp.105, music exx. VG PB. Zurich, Othmar Schoeck-Gesellschaft 2000. £4.00

[essays by Koch, Föllmi, Bronfen, Baumgartner, Fauser, Palmer]

 

SCHOENBERG. HILMAR, ERNST ed. Arnold Schönberg. Gedenkausstellung 1974. pp.384, colour/b&w illus. VG PB. Universal 1974. £15.00

 

SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. Facsimiles of the Autograph Score and Sketches, and Reprint of the First Edition. Ed Martin Chusid. pp.xxiv + [144] music facs + 1. VG. [£100 new] Yale UP 2000. £40.00

 

_____ BADURA-SKODA, EVA & BRANSCOMBE, PETER eds. Schubert Studies. Problems of Style and Chronology. pp.xiv+369, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Cambridge UP 1982. £13.50

[essays by Dürr, Hallmark, Brody, Flothuis, McKay, Wolff, Gülke, P Badura-Skoda, Winter, Hoorickx, Feil, Weinmann, the editors]

 

SCHUMANN. MILLER, RICHARD. Singing Schumann. An Interpretive Guide for Performers. pp.xiv+245, music exx. VG. Oxford UP PB edn 2005. £10.00

 

SCHUTZ. MOSER, HANS JOACHIM. Heinrich Schütz. His Life and Work. Trsl from 2nd rev edn by C F Pfatteicher. pp.xxvi + 740 + 16 plates, music exx. VG, dj. Eng edn, Saint Louis, Concordia 1959. £27.50

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SMETANA. LARGE, BRIAN. Smetana. pp.xvii+473, music exx, illus. Duckworth 1970. VG, dj (faded spine).£16.00

 

SOCIAL HISTORY. MACKERNESS, E D. A Social History of English Music. pp.x+307. VG. Routledge 1964. £15.00

 

STANFORD. NORRIS, GERALD. Stanford, the Cambridge Jubilee and Tchaikovsky. pp.584. VG, partly faded dj. David & Charles 1980. £15.00

 

STOLTZER. HOFFMANN-ERBRECHT, LOTHAR. Thomas Stoltzer. Leben und Schaffen. pp.213, music exx. VG PB. Kassel, Hinnenthal 1964. £12.50

STRAVINSKY

LEDERMAN, MINNA ed. Stravinsky in the Theatre. pp.x+228, music exx, illus. VG. Da Capo repr 1975 of 1949 edn. £7.50

WHITE, ERIC WALTER. Stravinsky. The Composer and his Works. A Special Limited Edition of 500 Copies Produced on the Occasion of the Opening of the Stravinsky Festival, London 1979. pp.xv+608, music exx. VG, fep clipped, dj (partly faded). Faber, limited [2nd] edition 1979. £13.50

2nd copy 2nd edn, California UP 1979. VG PB. £10.00

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TELEMANN. PETZOLDT, RICHARD. Georg Philipp Telemann. Trsl Horace Fitzpatrick. pp.xv+255, music exx, illus. VG, dj. Eng edn, Benn 1974. £15.00

 

TINCTORIS. BALMER, LUCIE. Tonsystem und Kirchentöne bei Johannes Tinctoris. pp.i+281. VG hardbound PB. Berne, Haupt 1935. £19.50

TIPPETT. Selected Letters of Michael Tippett. Ed Thomas Schuttenhelm. pp.xxiv+456, illus. VG, dj. Faber 2005. £15.00

 

_____ ROBINSON, SUZANNE ed. Michael Tippett. Music and Literature. pp.xix+261, music exx. VG, dj. Aldershot, Ashgate 2002. [new £60] £19.50

 

____ WHITE, ERIC WALTER. Tippett and His Operas. pp.142, illus. Barrie & Jenkins 1979. VG, dj.£3.00

 

TWENTIETH CENTURY

BEAUMONT, ANTONY. Zemlinsky. pp.xvii+524, music exx. VG, dj. Cornell UP 2000. £19.50

 

SACHS, HARVEY. Music in Fascist Italy. pp.ix+271. VG, dj. Norton 1988. £9.50

 

SHEPPARD, W ANTHONY. Revealing Masks. Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater. pp.xv+350, music exx, illus. VG, dj. California UP 2001. £13.50

 

TARQUINI, VITTORIA BONAJUTI. Riccardo Zandonai, nel ricordo dei suoi intimi. pp.287, colour/b&w illus. VG browned PB, cover edges a little ragged. Milan, Ricordi 1951. £6.00

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VERDI. Carteggio Verdi - Ricordi 1880-1881. Ed P Petrobelli, M Di Gregorio Casati & C M Mossa. pp.xxiii+347, colour illus. VG, bottom cover corners bumped, dj. Parma, Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani 1988. £17.50

 

_____ BUSCH, HANS. Verdi's Aida. The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents. pp.lv+688. VG PB. Minnesota UP 1978. £10.00

 

VINACCESI. 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. £20.00

 

VINCENT. The Collected Works of Vincent. Ed Bertran E Davis. pp.xxxiii + 179 music. VG PB. Madison, A-R Editions, RRM MA & Early Renaissance IX & X, 1978. £15.00

 

VIVALDI. TALBOT, MICHAEL. The Sacred Vocal Music of Antonio Vivaldi. pp.xi+565, music exx. VG PB, dj. Florence, Olschki 1995. £17.50

 

VRBEVETANIS, VGOLINI. Declaratio musicqe disciplinae. Ed Albert Seay. 3 volumes: I pp.vii+230 + 32 booklet music exx, 1959; II pp.vi+266 + 24 music exx booklet, 1960; III pp.vi+253,1962. VG, exc 1 cover corner bumped. American Institute of Musicology, CSM 7. [new $337] £50.00

 

WAGNER. SKELTON, GEOFFREY. Wagner in Thought and Practice. pp.vii+212. VG, dj. Lime Tree 1991. £5.00

 

WALTON. LLOYD, STEPHEN. William Walton. Music of Fire. pp.xi+332, illus. VG exc bottom spine bumped, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2001. £15.00

 

WEBER. Briefe von Carl Maria von Weber an Hinrich Lichtenstein. Ed Ernst Rudorff. pp.viii+252. VG. Braunschweig, Westermann 1900. £19.50

 

WESLEY. OLLESON, PHILIP. Samuel Wesley. The Man and His Music. pp.xxiii+360, music exx. VG, dj. Woodbridge, Boydell 2003. [new £60] £22.50

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