Cary, Annie Louise (1842-1921). American Operatic Contralto.

Autograph: The Signature of American Opera Singer Annie Louise Cary, Inscribed & Dated by Her.

Cincinnati, May 1877. 1877. - The American operatic contralto Annie Louise Cary's autograph penned on a 4-5/8 inch high by 7-5/8 inch wide page from an autograph album. Inscribed by her and dated "Cincinnati - May 1877". There is some dampstaining along the top and right edges of the page, not affecting the autograph. Very good. Very good .

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Book number: 97895

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; AUTOGRAPH; OPERA; ANNIE LOUISE CARY; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AMERICAN OPERATIC CONTRALTO; INSCRIPTION; DATED; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SINGER.

(Cary, Mary Flagler). (Ryskamp, Charles)

The Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection: Printed Books and Music Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Documents, Portraits

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, (1970). (1970). New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, (1970). (1970). Fine. - Small quarto [10-3/4 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide], tan & dark blue cloth. The binding is slightly rubbed. xii & 107 pages plus a section of 49 black-and-white facsimiles, most full-page, & colophon. Near fine.

Limited edition of 600 copies bound in cloth. Fine .

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Book number: 18160

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; REFERENCE; CATALOG; MARY FLAGLER MUSIC COLLECTION; PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY; CHARLES RYSKAMP; FACSIMILES; PRINTED BOOKS; MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS; AUTOGRAPHS; PORTRAITS; AUTOGRAPH LETTERS; DOCUMENTS; LIMITED EDITION.

Chadwick, G. W

Harmony: A Course of Study

Boston, MA: The B. F. Wood Music Co. (1897). (1897). Boston, MA: The B. F. Wood Music Co. (1897). (1897). Good. - Octavo, dark green cloth titled in gilt. The binding is rubbed & bumped with the head & tail of the spine lightly chipped. xiv & 236 pages. Profusely illustrated with music staves. The page edges are slightly darkened. Good.

"Twenty-Third Edition." . Good .

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Book number: 11966

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; MUSIC THEORY; MUSIC EDUCATION; HARMONY: A COURSE OF STUDY; G. W. CHADWICK; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY.

(Chaliapin, Fedor). Borovsky, Victor

Chaliapin: A Critical Biography

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1988. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1988. Fine. - Octavo, cloth in a dust wrapper. There is a small area of minor staining to the front cover. xv & 630 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Near fine. Fine .

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Book number: 17305

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; SINGER; BASS; BASSO; RUSSIAN; FEDOR CHALIAPIN; CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY; VICTOR BOROVSKY; ILLUSTRATIONS.

Chaliapin, Feodor (1873-1938). Great Russian operatic basso

Portrait Postcard of the Great Russian Opera Singer

Circa [1915]. [1915]. Circa [1915]. [1915]. Good. - sc 5-1/4 inch high by 3-1/2 inch wide unused portrait postcard with a black & white photographic illustration of the Russian bass singer, seated with his arms crossed over his knees. The card is lightly soiled with marks at the corners from album restraints, a small scratch at the bottom which doe not not affect the image. Chaliapin's name is printed in both Cyrillic and Roman script at the bottom under the image. Good. Good .

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Book number: 27718

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: CLASSICAL MUSIC; OPERA; BASS; RUSSIAN SINGER; PHOTOGRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION; PORTRAIT POSTCARD; EPHEMERA; FEODOR CHALIAPIN.

Chapin, Schuyler.

Leonard Bernstein: Notes from a Friend.

New York: Walker and Company, (1992). (1992). INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY SCHUYLER CHAPIN - Octavo, yellow cloth backed with blue cloth in a dust wrapper. xii, [1] leaf & 178 pages. Illustrated with a full-page portrait of Leonard Bernstein. Near fine.

First edition.

Inscribed and signed by the author in the year of publication: "For ------ ------ / With hope that the book gives you pleasure! / Schuyler Chapin / 15-12-92". Very good .

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Book number: 37255

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; CONDUCTOR; COMPOSER; LEONARD BERNSTEIN: NOTES FROM A FRIEND; SCHUYLER CHAPIN; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

Chapin, Schuyler.

Leonard Bernstein: Notes from a Friend.

New York: Walker and Company, (1992). (1992). - Octavo, golden yellow boards backed with blue cloth in a dust wrapper. xii, [1] leaf & 178 pages. Illustrated with a black-and-white frontispiece portrait after a painting by Rene Bouche. There is a light stain to the top edge. Very good. First edition. With a foreword by Peter Ustinov. Very good .

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Book number: 96004

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; AMERICAN COMPOSER; AMERICAN CONDUCTOR; RECORDINGS; LEONARD BERNSTEIN: NOTES FROM A FRIEND; MEMOIR; SCHUYLER CHAPIN; VICE PRESIDENT, STEINWAY & SONS; HEAD OF COLUMBIA RECORDS MASTERWORKS DIVISION; CHAIRMAN OF AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA; GENERAL

Chapin, Schuyler

Musical Chairs: A Life in the Arts

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1977). (1977). New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1977). (1977). Fine. - Octavo, white cloth titled in brown on the spine, in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The dust jacket is lightly rubbed with the rear panel & the edges of the flaps somewhat darkened. 448 pages. The front edges of the last 2 leaves are very slightly roughed. Black-and white illustrations. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper and signed "Schuyler / 12/7/77". Fine .

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Book number: 9949

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; OPERA; METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE; MANAGER; IMPRESARIO; SCHUYLER CHAPIN; AUTOBIOGRAPHY; SIGNED; INSCRIBED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; MUSICAL CHAIRS: A LIFE IN THE ARTS; PERFORMING ARTS.

Chase, Gilbert.

America's Music. From the Pilgrims to the Present.

NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. (1955). (1955). - (McGraw Hill Series in Music). 8vo, blue cloth (bumped; spine faded; edges of covers slightly faded) titled in silver with vignette in silver on front cover, in dw (chipped & lightly soiled; dw spine faded with small pieces out of head & tail; red mark to front flap). xxiii, 733 & [2] pp. Illustrated with music staves. Very good in good dw.

"Mr. Chase..covers the growth of all the music that the people of the United States have made or remade over the past 330 years--from the psalms of the Pilgrims, the tribal music of our Indians, Negro spirituals, folk songs and ballads, to the rise of ragtime and the blues, jazz and Broadway musicals, the important experiments in the symphonic and operatic mediums."--From the dw. Very good .

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Book number: 447

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; AMERICAN MUSIC; MUSICOLOGY; HISTORY OF MUSIC; SPIRITUALS; FOLK SONGS; NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC; JAZZ; CLASSICAL MUSIC; BROADWAY; MUSICALS.

(Chavez, Carlos; 1899-1978). Gara, Emmerich.

A Lively Black & White Portrait of the Mexican Composer & Conductor Carlos Chavez Rehearsing on an Outdoor Stage in Front of Scaffolding.

(Ellenville, NY, Summer), (1956). (1956). - A powerful 14 inch high by 11 inch wide photograph by Emmerich Gara depicting the Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chavez conducting from a crude podium set up in front of scaffolding. Depicted in three quarter profile from the hip up, Chavez leans forth with furrowed brow while conducting with his hands. Attired in a white sweater tucked into his pants with a colorful scarf tucked into his sweater, the conductor is posed in front of the white tarps punctuated with colorful lines which drape the background. Scaffolding rises up from behind Chavez at right of the image. Photographed by Cellist Emmerich Gara, with his name & address stamped on the verso of the photograph. Signed by Gara in pencil on the verso. Fine. The Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Antonis de Padua Chavez y Ramirez (1899-1978) was a music theorist, educator, as well as a journalist. He founded the Mexican Symphony Orchestra and was also its director. Influenced by Mexican culture, his second symphony, the highly popular "Sinfonia India", uses native Yaqui percussion instruments. He conducted the Symphony of the Air at the Empire State Music Festival held in Ellenville New York in July 1956. Emmerich Gara (b.1901, d.1963). Born in Vienna, Austria in 1901, Gara established lifelong careers as a portrait photographer and professional cellist. Before the outbreak of the Second World War he and his wife emigrated to the United States, where he was hired as cellist for the NBC Orchestra led by Arturo Toscanini. He performed with the orchestra (later called The Symphony of the Air) until his death. From his seat in the front row of the orchestra Gara was in the unique position to photograph all the great conductors and soloists who appeared with the orchestra during this extraordinary period of musical activity. His subjects were captured in performance, rehearsal, and in candid moments during recordings and while socializing. Gara's action portraits were used for record covers, for the Book of the Month Club and in articles in Time, Life and other major magazines around the world. Fine .

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Book number: 27785

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH; SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER; AUTOGRAPH; EMMERICH GARA; CARLOS CHAVEZ; MEXICAN; COMPOSER; CONDUCTOR; TEACHER; JOURNALIST; REHEARSAL; ELLENVILLE, NY; SUMMER 1955; SCAFFOLDING; MEXICO; MEXICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA; CLASSICAL MUSICIAN

(J. & W. Chester, Ltd.)

Eugene Goossens.

London / Geneva: J. & W. Chester Ltd. (1921). (1921). - Octavo, softcover bound in tan wraps. The spine & extremities are darkened & there are 2 tiny white dots to the front cover. 12 & [3] pages plus 5-page publisher's catalog. illustrated in black & white with a tipped-in portrait frontispiece & 3 full-page illustrations including 2 pages of music staves. The title page is darkened. Good. First edition. A title in the series "Miniature Essays", essays on composers published in English and French. Good .

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Book number: 95858

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; ENGLISH MUSICIAN; VIOLINIST; CONDUCTOR; COMPOSER; EUGENE GOOSSENS; MINIATURE ESSAYS; ENGLISH AND FRENCH TEXT; TIPPED-IN PORTRAIT; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

(Chopin, Frederic). Ferra, Bartomeu

Chopin and George Sand in Majorca. Translated from the Spanish by R.D. F. Pring-MILL... . Preceded by an Extract from "the Memoirs of Aurore Sand

Palma de Mallorca, Spain: (Edicions La Cartoixa), 1961. 1961. Palma de Mallorca, Spain: (Edicions La Cartoixa), 1961. 1961. Good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed cream wraps titled in red & black with a vignette in brown on the front cover. The covers are soiled with light stains and the spine is darkened with a few small stains. 82 pages & [5] leaves, with photographic illustrations, and brown & white illustrations and a folding plate in brown & white by the author. The preliminary pages and the bottom halves of the pages are very lightly dampstained. There are some small, light stains to the first 3 leaves. Good.

Reprint of a 1936 edition. Good .

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Book number: 19342

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; COMPOSER; POLISH; FREDERIC CHOPIN; AUTHOR; FRENCH; GEORGE SAND; AURORE DUPIN; SPAIN; MALLORCA; PALMA DE MALLORCA; BARTOMEU FERRA; R. D. R. PRING-MILL; AURORE SAND; ILLUSTRATIONS.

(Chopin, Frederic; Sands, George). Ferra, Bartomeu

Chopin and George Sand in the Cartuja de Valldemosa

Palma de Mallorca: (Printed by La Esperanza), 1930. 1930. Palma de Mallorca: (Printed by La Esperanza), 1930. 1930. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed gray wrappers. The extremities are darkened. 23 pages plus colophon. Illustrated in black & white with 10 plates, including a frontispiece & a folding plate in the rear, and with textual illustrations, after photographs, drawings & paintings by the author & others. There is occasional light foxing. Very good.

An account of a visit by George Sand and her children, accompanied by Chopin, to Mallorca in the winter of 1838-39. They stayed in the historic monastery, Cartuja de Valldemosa, confiscated from the monks in the revolution of 1836. Unfortunately for Sand's sickly son Maurice for whom she was seeking a warmer climate [and for Chopin himself], the winter was cold and stormy, marked by persistent rain, high winds and fog.

Translated by James Webb. Very good .

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Book number: 27095

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; POLISH COMPOSER; FREDERIC CHOPIN; LITERATURE; AUTHOR; GEORGE SAND; CHOPIN AND GEORGE SAND IN THE CARTUJA DE VALLDEMOSA; MONASTERY; MALLORCA; BARTOMEU FERRA; TRANSLATOR; JAMES WEBB; PLATES; FOLDING PLATE.

(Puccini, Giacomo). Civinini, Guelfo; and Zangarini, Carlo; librettists.

Das Madchen Aus Dem Goldenen Westen. Bayerische Staatsoper National-Theater. Donnerstag Den 3. November 1938. (Program).

(Munich: J. Gotteswinter), 1938. 1938. - Small quarto [9-1/2 inches high by 6-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial light tan wrappers with an image of the theatre on the front cover. The wraps are lightly soiled with their edges darkened. Pages [41]-60 plus 16 pages of ads. Black-and-white illustrations and pictorial ads. The central 4-page insert which is printed on a light tan paper is somewhat darkened. The rest of the contents are very good. Good. Titled on the front cover "Blatter der Bayerischen Staatsoper". The libretto is based on David Belasco's play and is translated into German by Alfred Bruggemann. The musical director is Karl Tutein and the stage director is Alois Hofmann. There is a full-page illustration of Hildegarde Ranczak as Winnie. Though there is a page of text on "The Girl of the Golden West", most of the material in the program concerns Tchaikowsky, "Eugen Onegin" and the Staatsoper production of that opera, which is being presented on the night following the Puccini opera. The text is in German. Good .

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Book number: 37031

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: OPERA; ITALIAN OPERA; GERMAN PRODUCTION; PROGRAM; BLATTER DER BAYERISCHEN STAATSOPER, MUNICH; DAS MADCHEN AUS DEM GOLDENEN WESTEN. BAYERISCHE STAATSOPER NATIONAL-THEATER. DONNERSTAG DEN 3. NOVEMBER 1938; THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST; GUELFO CIVININI AND C

(Clark, Kenneth S.). Burt, M. Struthers

The Man from Where: A Musical Comedy. As Presented by the Princeton Triangle Club. Book by M. Struthers Burt. Score by Kenneth S. Clark

Philadelphia, PA: A. H. Rosewig, 1904. 1904. Philadelphia, PA: A. H. Rosewig, 1904. 1904. Fair. - Quarto [approximately 12 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial red wrappers. The backstrip is perished & the wraps are nearly detached. The wraps are bumped & chipped with some light creasing. There is a piece out of the front wrap at the tail of the spine and an ink name is penned on the wrap's top edge. 40 pages. The page corners are lightly bumped & there are tears to the front edges of 4 leaves with tiny tears to 2 additional leaves. There are a very few pencil markings. Fair.

Words and music for the musical numbers. In some of the numbers, the words as well as the music are by Kenneth S. Clark. Fair .

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Book number: 27228

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC; MUSICAL COMEDY; SCORE; LYRICS; MUSICAL NUMBERS; COMPOSER; KENNETH S. CLARK; LYRICIST; M. STRUTHERS BURT; THE MAN FROM WHERE; PRINCETON TRIANGLE CLUB; PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRODUCTION.