Mana, Abdelkader, in collaboration with Georges Lapassade, Frederic Damgaard, Abdellah Akharraz and Abdelkabir Namir

The Gnawa and Mohamed Tabal

Casablanca, Morocco, LAK International, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available currently on-line. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright red cloth covers, blind-stamped title to cover and spine, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing. A fine and engaging social history and art historical account of the social rituals of the Essaouiran Gnawa (also known as "Gnaoua"), an Afro-Moroccan group whose music and culture are the heartbeat of Essaouira (in Western Morocco). Gnawa, broadly Moroccan and other North African Islamic religious songs and rhythms are featured here and displayed prominently in a Gnawa-devoted music festival held annually in Essaouira, Morocco. Non-African and Western artists and "mystical" Gnaouan musicians meet in glorious dialogue here. Mohamed Tabal (1959- ) is a prominent Moroccan painter, and his work augments the music greatly, and are printed on high-gloss paper. Preface by Georges Lapassade, and contributions by heavy-hitters in musicology and Moroccan history. [13], 14-177 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 353641

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Keywords: Abdelkader Mana The Gnawa Mohamed Tabal Morocco Moroccan music ethnomusicology Islam Islamic music Gnaoua

Allen, Reginald

The Life and Work of Sir Arthur Sullivan: Composer for Victorian England

New York / Boston, The Pierpont Morgan Library / David R. Godine Publisher, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound in light brown linen cloth, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, a bit chipped here and there, creased of inner flap, but not price-clipped, and protected by a plastic coat. Composer for Victorian England of, among others, "Onward, Christian Soldiers" and of Gilbert & Sullivan operas. Fully illustrated and annotated. 215 pp. and including notes, index and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 355294

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Keywords: Reginald Allen Sir Arthur Sullivan music composition

Ashton, John

Modern Street Ballads

London, Chatto & Windus, 1888. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition, being an at least Fair condition exemplar, being Number 94 of only 100 copies printed in the Large Paper edition, thus a First Edition Thus. Big, tall, Imperial octavo hardcover format, gray paper over boards, one-quarter vellum, and augmented with 56 illustrations from old woodcuts. Paper soiled a bit, tips and edges scuffed, spine head and foot, ditto, paper title label soiled and abraded a bit, rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges, else tightly bound and bright of interior. From the personal library of the noted erotophile, bibliographer, folklorist, literary sleuth and former book scout, Gershon Legman, whose inimitable signature graces the heavily toned first free endpaper. An impressive collection of scurrilous, historical, erotic, political, geographical, social, mythological and sea street ballads, with a special focus on Queen Anne, she having been the focus of another biography by John Ashton. Replete with numerous in-text illustrations in black-and-white ballad headers. Illustrated frontispiece, tissue-protected, of an old woman proclaiming, "Fifty songs for a far-r-r-r-den." All in, a good, sturdy exemplar of an important work in English ethnomusicology.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 356299

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Keywords: Large Paper Edition John Ashton modern street ballads England English history music history popular music

Mendelsohn Bartholdy, Paul; Julius Rietz, Carl Mendelsohn Bartholdy, ed.

Briefe Aus Den Jahren 1833 Bis 1847 Von Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy. Nebst Einem Verzeichnisse Der Sã¤Mmtlichen Musikalischen Compositionen Von Felx Mendelsohn Bartholdy Zusammengestellt Von Dr. Julius Rietz. Zweiter Band.

Leipzig, Germany, Hermann Mendelsohn, 1964. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. German language text. Bound handsomely in marbled paper over boards, green cloth-backed, sunned to brown at spine, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine in two compartments, with four raised bands. Looks quite handsome on the shelf. Second volume in a two-volume set.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 348229

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Keywords: German language|Julius Rietz|Paul Mendelsohn Bartholdy|Carl Mendelsohn Bartholdy|music

Blessebois, Pierre-Corneille

Priape, Opera En Musique 1694 Piece Attribuee a Blessebois, Reimprimee Textuellement, Avec Fac Simile Des Vignettes Et Une Notice

Paris, Jules Gay, 1868. Reprint. Hardcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. The Notice is by Paul Lacroix (who went by the name Pierre Dufour, author of a magisterial work on prostitution). Reprinted for Jules Gay for the series: Gayetes Francoises. "L'Attribution a Corneille Blessedbois est de fantasie," from Barbier's Dict. des ouvrages anonymes, Geneve, Impression Special Faite Pour La Bibliomaniac Society. Tirage a Cent Exemplaires Numerotes dont 4 Exemplaires sur chine set 2 sur velin. Exemplaire No. 68. viii + 55 pp. Numerous black and white head and tail pieces. Half leather and with marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. The front free end paper is ink-stamped Dupre (is that a binder?) at upper left corner. Fine in a lovely, understated binding. From the personal library of Gershon Legman 1954, and who has also here written in pencil: Rose 535. Gay lit. 1875, p. 31 (Geneve: Gay & fils). Notice by Paul Lacroix. Tri-color silk-linen ribbon bookmark still attached. The O.C.L.C. locates only two holdings in the U.K., and three in the U.S. None currently available on-line.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Keywords: French language|Pierre-Corneille Blessebois|Opera|music|musical score|Gershon Legman

Stockmann, Doris and Jens Henrik Koudal, eds.

Historical Studies on Folk and Traditional Music

Njalsgade, Denmark, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the illustrated, printed wraps, quite colorful. Doris Stockmann, Jens Henrik Koudal, Bjorn Aksdal, Margareta Jersild, Jens Henrik Koudal, Ralf Gehler, Zaiga Sneibe, Jan Steszewski, Rainer Gstrein, Helga Thiel, Lujza Tari, Grozdana Marosevic, Maria Samokovliev,a Elena Zottovicceanu, Ferjal Daja, Susanne Ziegler, Ursula Reinhard and Jurgen Elsner. Published for the I.C.T.M. Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music, a set of Conference Papers in Report, Copenhagen 24-28, April 1995. (EDT)Published by , 1997Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 353815

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Keywords: Doris Stockmann Jens Henrik Koudal Bjorn Aksdal Margareta Jersild Jens Henrik Koudal Ralf Gehler Zaiga Sneibe Jan Steszewski Rainer Gstrein Helga Thiel Lujza Tari Grozdana Marosevic Maria Samokovlieva Elena Zottovicceanu Ferjal Daja Susanne Ziegler Ursula

Robert Gordon

Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters

Boston, Little, Brown, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Bound in two-tone, brown paper over boards, brown cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Plentiful black-and-white photographs of the singer and guitarist, quite fine. xx [1], 3-408 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 353585

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Keywords: Robert Gordon Muddy Waters

Freund, Hans and Wilhelm Reinking

Musikalisches Theater in Hamburg: Versuch Uber Die Dramaturgie Der Oper

Hamburg, Germany, Hans Christians, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. German language social history of musical theater in Hamburg, Germany, bound in quarto hardcover format, decorative floral-patterned wallpaper over boards, sharp, barely abraded paper labels to front cover and spine. Plentiful mounted illustrations, some in full color, including at frontis, depicting a performance in 1817 in Hamburg. The publisher's blurb, translated, has it that "This book will be published on the occasion of the 260th anniversary of the Hamburg Opera [.] by a group of Hamburg opera friends." Plentiful depictions of sets of the opera, floor plans of stage designs, scenes from particular opera, etc. Beautiful black-and-white initials, headers and tails, and printed on fine, hand-pressed paper, bound finely.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 351827

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Keywords: musical theater German language Hans Christians Hans Freund Wilhelm Reinking

Henry, Daniel, Jr.

Under a Fool's Cap

London, Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author, inscribed warmly to "Farny," "who was at one time to have also found shelter [under a fool's cap], this capital decoration is affectionately offered by the present author, D.H.Jr." Sturdy, still handsome, brown cloth over beveled boards, polished to the point of shiny, a bit soiled, light rubbing to extremities, black lettering to cover and spine, rubbed, but clean and unmarked of interior but for binder's mark inside rear board at bottom near gutter. Rough-cut fore- and bottom-edges, top edge gilt. Twenty-four songs, "King Cole" to "Violet's Blue," "High-Diddle-Diddle" to "Cock-a-Doodle-Do." Each song is preceded by a half-title page, quite nicely. "Margery Daw" makes an appearance: "See-Saw! Margery Daw! Sold her bed to lie upon straw. Was she not a dirty slut, to sell her bed and lie in dirt?"Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 356107

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Keywords: folk songs music poetry Daniel Henry, Jr. signed

Jekyll, Walter, ed.

Jamaican Song and Story: Annancy Stories, Digging Sings, Dancing Tunes and Ring Tunes

New York, Dover Publications, 1966. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A fine, important work of ethnomusicology, from the personal library of Dr. Art Lehmann, author of Magic, Witchcraft and Religion. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, with some creased glossy pictorial wraps, six pages of penned notes up front, thereafter being a clean text. New introductory essays by Philip Sherlock, Louise Bennett and Rex Nettleford. lii [2], 2-188 pp. + a list of other, related Dover publications. Unabridge and unaltered republication of the true First Edition of 1907, and with three new essays.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 351550

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Keywords: Walter Jekyll Philip Sherlock Louise Bennett Rex Nettleford ethnomusicology

Berger, Karol and Anthony Newcomb, eds.

Music and the Aesthetics of Modernity: Essays

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Department of Music, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Fine-looking festschrift to Reinhold Brinkmann, bound in black cloth, with gilt lettering to cover and spine, and with contributions by the two editors and by Martin Warner, Scott Burnham, Henri Zerner, Hermann Danuser, Horst Bredekamp, David Lewin and others. xviii [1], 3-412 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 351272

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Keywords: festschrift music history Reinhold Brinkmann Martin Warner Scott Burnham Henri Zerner Hermann Danuser, Horst Bredekamp, David Lewin

Keegan, Susanne

The Bride of the Wind: The Life and Times of Alma Mahler-Werfe

New York, Viking Penguin, 1992. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A readable, accessible volume of biography and social history regarding the wife of Gustav Mahler and wife of and mistress to other famous men in the arts and humanities, from Kokoschka to Berg, Gropius to Werfel. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. A nice range of black-and-white illustrations and photographs, printed on high-gloss paper. xvi + 346 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 348072

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Keywords: Susanne Keegan|Alma Mahler|musician|music |biography

Laki, Peter, ed.

Bartok and His World

Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. a fine and loving, scholarly homage to the Hungarian composer, Bela Bartok, edited by and contributed to by Peter Laki (who also translates several pieces from the original Hungarian into English), Leon Botstein, Laszlo Somfai, Tibor Tallian, Carl Leafstedt, Vera Lampert, David E. Schneider, and many others, mostly Hungarians. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Pumpkin-colored cloth boards, gilt stamped title over burgundy label at spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. ix + 314 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 348076

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Keywords: Peter Laki|Bela Bartok|Leon Botstein|Laszlo Somfai|Tibor Tallian|Carl Leafstedt|Vera Lampert|David E. Schneider

Lomax, Alan

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and 'Inventor of Jazz'

New York, An Evergreen Book, by Grove Press, 1956. First Edition Thus. Softcover. . Mister Jelly Roll is the magnum opus of the noted ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax regarding the origins of blues music, also a profound contribution to African American Studies and ethnomusicology, focused on Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, a.k.a. Jelly Roll Morton. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear to, soiling of covers, less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. 302 pp., including black-and-white drawn map of Storyville.Grove Press, 1956.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 353081

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Keywords: Mister Jelly Roll Alan Lomax blues music African American Studies ethnomusicology Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe Jelly Roll Morton

Marchand, Alexandre

Du Principe Essentiel de L'Harmonie

Paris, France, Imprimerie Nationale, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A most handsomely bound volume in marbled paper over boards, quarter-leather, raised bands to spine, gilt tooled title and author to spine, silk linen ribbon bookmark laid in. Beautifully decorated endpapers. Previous owner's name penned at first free endpaper, that of Gustave Lefevre (?). Some soiling to and foxing of endpapers, moderate foxing to interior, else clean and unmarked, being quite bright of appearance. Red-staining to all three edges, quite lovely. Dedication by the author to Monsieur Ambroise Thomas, Membre de L'Institut, Directeur du Conservatoire. Musical notations and scores of scores.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345290

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Alexandre Marchand|French language|harmony|music|musicians|melody|music composition