Anthony, James R.

French Baroque Music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau

Portland, OR, Amadeus Press, 1997. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated dj, mylar cover; 586 pp; bw illustrations. James R. Anthony's French Baroque Music, originally published in 1974, was the first definitive study of French music of the Baroque era and remains the only comprehensive survey of the vast musical output of 17th and 18th-century France. Completely revised and expanded, this new edition incorporates research of the past two decades and includes a wealth of quotations from early writers on the subject. As in the previous English language editions of 1974 and 1978 (and in the French editions of 1981 and 1992), the book provides an overview of French music of the period. Anthony explores music of the stage and of the altar and includes chapters on music for lute, guitar, and keyboard; instrumental music; and vocal chamber music. A revised author's preface considers the present state of research in the area of French Baroque music. Finally, a new and expanded index and an updated bibliography listing more than 1,300 works make this book a superb resource for scholars as well as laymen. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Scuffing to boards espeically along bottom. Pages are otherwise clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 185800

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; French Music History ; ;

Arom, Simha

African Polyphony and Polyrhythm: Musical Structure and Methodology

Cambridge / Paris, Cambridge University Press / Editions De La Maison Des Science, 1991. Softcover. glossy glue & orange illustrated wrappers. 668 pgs w/ musical illustrations. Pages have pencil numbers to upper edges with instances of pencil notations to diagrams. "In this detailed study the author takes a new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterize African music. Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, the author develops a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm. Through a systematic breakdown of the many layers of apparently improvised rhythm he reveals the essential structure which underlies this rich and complex music. Inspired also by linguistic techniques, Professor Arom regards the music very much as a grammatical system."--WorldCat. Good+ (ex-library w/ textblock stamps, ID to lower spine, internal stamps, usual markings. scuffs & marks to textblock edges. creasing, rubbing & scuffs to covers.) .

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Book number: 185849

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: African Music ; African Music ; ;

Baker, David: Lida Belt Baker and Herman Hudson

The Black Composer Speaks

Metuchen, New Jersey, Scarecrow Press, 1978. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover; v, 506 pp; bw portraits. Contents: Thomas Jefferson Anderson -- David Nathaniel Baker -- Noel Da Costa -- Talib Rasul Hakim -- Herbie Hancock -- Ulysses Kay -- Undine Smith Moore -- Oliver Nelson -- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- George Russell -- Archie Shepp -- Hale Smith -- Howard Swanson -- George Walker -- Olly Wilson. Includes bibliographies, lists of the composers' works, and index. VG/VG (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear.) .

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Book number: 185812

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; United States Composers: African American Composers ; ;

Baker, James M.

The Music of Alexander Scriabin

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with silver spine lettering; black dj, bw illustration and white lettering; mylar cover; xiii, 289 pp; bw illustrations, music. Contents: List of special analytic notations -- Tonality in the transitional works I : General considerations -- Tonality in the transitional works II : Prolongational procedures -- Tonality in the transitional works III : Fundamental structure -- Aspects of atonality in the transitional music -- Relations among sets in the transitional music -- On the border of atonality : the "Feuillet d'album" op. 58 and the prelude op. 59/2 -- Relations among sets in the atonal music -- Tonality and atonality in the Extended forms I : the sonatas -- Tonality and atonality in the Extended forms II : the orchestral works. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block. Light shelfwear to boards and block.) .

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Book number: 185774

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Composers; Russian Music; Scriabin ; ;

Billardon-Sauvigny, Edme; Jean Michel Moreau and Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny

La Rose, Ou, la Feste de Salency: Avec Un Supplement Sur L'Origine de Cette Fete / la Musique, Avec Accompagnement de Harpe & C.

Paris, Ches Gauguery, 1770. Hardcover. Two volumes of one publication. Both volumes bound in half brown cloth and marble illustrated paper boards. The first volume has a bw illustrated title page; xvi, engraved title page, 74 pp. The second volume contains music pages (105)- 120. Text is in French. Engraved t.p. signed: J.M. Moreau le j[eu]ne, 1769. Dedication signed: Sauvigny. Head pieces are woodcuts. Musical notation and lyrics are engraved. Music with harp accompaniment. VG- (recently rebound with covers like new, bindings secure, pages have expected age toning but are otherwise clean and clear) .

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Book number: 191180

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music; Festivals; Harp ; Music; French Festivals; Harp Music ; ; Music; Festivals; Harp

Boehm, Gottfried; Ulrich Mosch; Katharina Schmidt

Canto D'Amore: Classicism in Modern Art and Music 1914-1935

Basel, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum, 1996. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with cream colored writing. Tan colored dj with color illustration and iilstration in background 490 pages : illustrations (some color). The classicism of the 1920s has usually been understood as a counter-modernist, reactionary tendency, summed up in Jean Cocteau's phrase, 'return to order' (Rappel a l'ordre). But the exhibition and catalogue Canto d'Amore, a title taken from De Chirico's key 'metaphysical' painting of 1914, demonstrates that this classicism should be more correctly understood as an alternative modernism, a 'modernist classicism'. The changes of direction undertaken by artists and. Composers such as Picasso or Stravinsky after the First World War were not a return to the status quo before Cubism or before the new music but a continuation of modernism by other means. Reference back to the classical tradition (or traditions) by such artists and composers did not mean imitation or academicism but necessarily involved a profound alteration of the classical content and form. The complex theme, 'classicism in modern art and music 1914-1935', which is. Essential to the understanding of the development of art and music between the Wars, is pursued in a number of important essays by leading scholars in the field. Five introductory essays lay out the general theme, and there is also discussion of the related situation in architecture and literature.-Dustjacket`. VG/VG some discolration on bookblock. Dj has clear mylar covering .

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Book number: 181389

Catalogue: Music and Art

Keywords: Music and Art ; Music and Modern Art ; ;

Carpani, Giuseppe

Le Haydine: Ovvero Lettere Su la Vita E le Opere Del Celebre Maestro Giuseppe Haydn

Milano, Da C. Buccinelli, stampatore-cartaro, 1812. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and marble illustrated boards; bw portrait frontispiece; VIII; 298 pp. Text is in Italian. Letters on the life and works of the famous master Giuseppe Haydn. VG (recently rebound and new end papers, pages are lightly age toned but otherwise clean and clear) .

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Book number: 189325

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Giuseppe Haydn ; ;

Champfleury

Le Violin de Faience

Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, 1885. Nouvelle edition. Originally bound in leather with this copy missing front and rear cover, leather spine is present with gilt lettering and 5 raised bands; original blue cover is bound in, bw illustrated frontispice, red and black printed title page, 137 pp, (159)-160 (4) pp and rear blue original cover; bw illustrations throughout. Printed in edition of 500 copies, this being 321. Text is in French. Contents: Le violon de faïence -- Les enfants du professeur Turck -- Les trouvailles de m. Bretoncel. As-Is (missing front and rear covers, appears to be missing pages 138-158?, pages are lightly age toned but otherwise very clean .

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Book number: 189728

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Earthenware Violin ; ;

Chickering & Sons

April, 1869: Chickering & Sons, Manufacturers of Grand, Square and Upright Piano Fortes

Boston, (not identified), 1869. Pamphlet. Trade catalogue consisting of 16 unnumbered pages with bw illustrations. Circular for Chickering Pianos full of articles about their product, along with illustrations and price lists. Good (heavy age toning and chipping along edges, text and illustrations are otherwise clear) .

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Book number: 189916

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Chickering Piano ; ;

Christensen, Thomas

Rameau and Musical Thought in the Enlightenment

Cambridge, England/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; navy dj, illustrated and yellow lettering, mylar cover; xviii, 327 pp; bw illustrations and music. "This is the first intellectual biography of the French composer and theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau. Rameau synthesised the vocabulary and grammar of musical practice into a concise scientific system, earning himself the popular title of 'Newton of the Arts'. Ranging widely over the musical and intellectual thought of the eighteenth century, Thomas Christensen is able to orient Rameau's accomplishments in the light of speculative and practical considerations of music theory as well as many of the scientific ideas current in the French Enlightenment. He shows how Rameau incorporates ideas ranging from neoplatonic thought and Cartesian mechanistic metaphysics to Locke's empirical psychology and Newtonian experimental science. Additional primary documents help clarify Rameau's fascinating and stormy relationship with the Encyclopedists, Diderot, Rousseau and d'Alembert."- DJ. Contents include: Rameau and the Enlightenment -- Rameau as music theorist -- Precursors of harmonic theory -- The generative fundamental -- The fundamental bass -- The corps sonore -- Mode and modulation -- Rameau and the philosophes -- D'Alembert -- The final years -- Appendix: A note on harmonic and arithmetic proportions -- Appendix: "L'art de la basse fondamentale" and Gianotti's Le guide du compositeur. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

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Book number: 185962

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Music History; Jean-Philippe Rameau ; ;

Clark, Stephen L.

C.P. E. Bach Studies

Oxford, England/ New York, Clarendon Press/ Oxford University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; navy dj with bw illustration, mylar cover; xv, 346 pp; music. Contents: C.P.E. Bach's character pieces and his friendship circle / Darrell M. Berg -- The letters from C.P.E. Bach to K.W. Ramler / Stephen L. Clark -- C.P.E. Bach's aesthetic as reflected in his notation / Etienne Darbellay -- C.P.E. Bach and the early history of the recapitulatory Tutti in north Germany / Shelley G. Davis -- C.P.E. Bach and the trio old and new / Michelle Fillion -- The stylistic anomalies of C.P.E. Bach's nonconstancy / Pamela Fox -- A supplement to C.P.E. Bach's Versuch : E.W. Wolf's Anleitung of 1785 / Christopher Hogwood -- C.P.E. Bach in the library of the Singakademie zu Berlin / Elias N. Kulukundis -- C.P.E. Bach and the Free fantasia for keyboad : Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Mus. ms. Nichelmann I N / Douglas A. Lee -- C.P.E. Bach and Carl Friedrich Zelter / Hans-Günter Ottenberg -- C.P.E. Bach through the 1740s : the growth of a style / David Schulenberg -- C.P.E. Bach, J.C.F. Rellstab, and the sonatas with varied reprises / Howard Serwer -- The 'Piano Climax' in the eighteenth century concerto : an operatic gesture? / Jane R. Stevens -- Filiation and the editing of revised and alternate versions : implications for the C.P.E. Bach edition / Rachel W. Wade -- A new look at C.P.E. Bach's musical jokes / Susan Wollenberg -- C.P.E. Bch in literature : a bibliography / Stephen L. Clark. VG-/VG- (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.) .

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Book number: 185813

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel ; ;

Clement, Felix; Pierre Larousse

Lyric Dictionary; History of the Operas Containing the Analysis and the Nomenclature of All the Operas and Comedy Operas Represented in France and Abroad Since the Origin of This Kind of Works Until Today

Paris, Administration of the Grand Universal Dictionary, 1869. Hardcover. French language text. 3/4 red leather boards. GIlt lettering and design elements on 5 raised band spine. Rough cut Bookblock. xv, 765 pages. "Supplement containing the works represented in France and abroad during the printing of the Dictionnaire lyrique ": pages [721] -748. G Cover has general wear, peeling on leather, corner/edge damage, Bookblock has age toning and damage to page edges. Interior pages have age toning. Bookplate of previous owner on front interior cover (Nathan R Brown) .

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Book number: 189329

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music, Opera ; Opera ; ;

Cooke, Edmund Vance

Little Songs for Two

New York, Dodge Publishing Company, 1909. Hardcover. Grey cloth covers with gilt lettering and embossed art. 73 pages. Partly reprinted from various periodicals./ Ornamental borders. Nicely illustrated title. VG/G, Covers show normal wear, corners slightly bumped. Pages in clean and tight.

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Book number: 183152

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music; Poems ; Music ; ;

Davison, Nancy R.

American Sheet Music Illustration: Reflections of the Nineteenth Century

Michigan, William L. Clements Library, 1973. Pamphlet. Gray wraps with black lettering, 24 pages, bw illustrations. A guide to an exhibition in the Museum of Art, October 12-November 18, 1973. Includes a foreword by Howard H. Peckman. VG (light shelfwear to wraps) .

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Book number: 179461

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Misc ; Music Title Pages ; ;

Dean, Winton

Handel's Dramatic Oratorios and Masques

London/ New York, Oxford University Press, 1979. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; tan dj with burgundy and black lettering; xii, 694 pp; illustrations, portraits, plates, music. Contents: The oratorio before Handel -- The early works and Italian operas -- The Handelian synthesis -- Handel's style in the oratorios -- The background to performance ; The autographs and printed librettos -- The oratorios in performance -- The oratorio and English taste -- Acis and Galatea -- Esther -- Deborah -- Athalia -- Interlude 1733-1738 -- Saul -- Interlude 1738-1742 -- Samson -- Semele -- Joseph and his bretheren -- Hercules -- Belshazzar -- Judas Maccabaeus -- Alexander Balus -- Joshua -- Solomon -- Susanna -- Theodora -- The choice of Hercules -- Jephtha. Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-678). Good/Good (Ex-library with stamps and labels on spine, inside front and rear covers, ffep and block.Shelfwear to boards and dj. Light soiling to text block. Pages are otherwise clean.) .

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Book number: 185683

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Music ; Handel, George Frideric; 18th Century Composers ; ;