LA FEILLEE (Francois de):

Methode Nouvelle Pour Apprendre Parfaitement les Regles du Plain-Chant et de La Psalmodie. Avec des Messes & autres Ouvrages en Plaine Chant figuré & musical, a voix seule & en partie, à l'usage des Paoisses & des Communautes Religieuses; dédiée a Monseigneue l'Eveque de Portiers. Troisieme Edition, augmentée & corrigée par M. de la Feillèe, Ecclesiastsique.

A Poitiers, Chez Jean Faulcon l'ané, Imprimue du Rois..., 1777. 12mo (in 6s), 170 x 90 mms., pp. viii, 600, with numerous musical illustrations in text, contemporary mottled sheepskin, spine gilt in compartment, red leather label; binding a bit dried, with spine noticeably driec, top of spine chipped, base of spine slightly chipped and with small wormhole at base, corners worn. Francois de la Feilée (c. 1710 - 1780) made his reputation with this work which was first published in 1748 . "It advocates the 'expressive' performances of chant in accord with the doctrine of the Affections as it was then understood.... The use of trills and other ornamentation is recommended , and relative speeds of delivery are prescribed. The same text should be sung more slowly on a solemn feast-day than on normal days, but otherwise the immediate contents of the text should determine the manner of singing: prayers are to be sung 'devoutly and sadly,' narrative text 'without any passion but good pronunciation'" (Mary Hunter, New Grove). The work was reprinted numerous times in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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LIND (Jenny).

Lindiana. An Interesting Narrative of the Life of Jenny Lind. With a Portrait by Linton.

Printed by Mitchell & Son, Arundel, Sussex. Sold in London by Joseph Thomas..., Duff and Hodgson..., 1847. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Small 8vo, 160 x 104 mms., pp. 52, engraved portrait, embossed cloth front cover; back cover missing, front cover detached, text a little fingered.

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LISZT (Franz):

The Gipsy in Music. The result of the Author's Life-long Experience and Investigations of the Gipsies and their Music. Englished for the first time by Edwin Evans. With Seven Portraits.

London: William Reeves..., [no date], [1926]. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 215 x 133 mms., pp. xx, [2], 208; [4], 209 - 369 [370], lithographed portrait of Liszt as frontispiece in each volume, with two further portraits of Liszt in volume 1, another as a youth in volume 2, and portraits of Schubert and Beethoven in volume 2, original brown cloth, blocked in gilt. A fine set. Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie was first published in 1859 and as Die Zigeuner und ihre Musik in Ungarn in 1861. Liszt was assisted in the preparation of this work by Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, who added a great deal of anti-semitic material to the second edition. Evans (1871 - 1945) was a music journalist and wrote for the Musical Times. So far as I can tell, he does not indicate whether his translation is from the French or German edition, or if he used the material Pricess Carolyne incorporated into the second edition.

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Book number: 7813

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[LUTTEROTH (Henri)]:

Chants Chretiens. "L'Eternel est mon Cantique."

Paris. Chez Risler, Libraire..., 1834. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 200 x 112 mms., pp. viii, 368, including half-title, with pages [1] - 224 consisting of music and letterpress, while pp. [225] - 368 are all letter-press, with this note on the verso of the half-title, "Imprimé par les procédés typographiques de E. Duverger, rue de Verneuil, 4," and the autograph "Russell Howell" on the top margin of the title-page, contemporary half green roan, gilt spine, marbled boards (rubbed); joints, edges and spine a bit worn, but a fair to good copy. The names of the composers are given at the end as "Kolb, Webbe, Haydn, Beethoven, Bornianzky, Bost, Venua, Delaborde, Louis Laur, Viotti, Malan, Guillaume Franc, Wilhem, Comte de Sorgo, Luther, Handel, Mme Hérault, Georges Neumarck, Mathieu, Mme H.-L., Le Mire, Hummel, Henri Scheidemann, Pleyel, Urhan, Paer, Naegeli, Severus Gastorius, Laus, Ladurner, Gratz, Rotter, Knecht, Jacob Praetorius, Claude Goudimel, Olivier, Panseron, Mozart." The work was frequently reprinted. The only copy that I can find of this 1834 edition is in the Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon.

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Book number: 8616

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MAGDALEN CHAPEL.

A New Edition of Hymns, Anthems, Tunes, and Ode, used at the Magdalen Chapel. Set for the Organ, Piano Forte, Voice, German Flute, or Guitar.

London: Printed by Clementi & Co..., [no date] [?1805]. 4to, 235 x 160 mms., pp. 130, engraved throughout with music and text, with index pages at page 1, 41, and [109], contemporary calf, gilt spine (slightly rubbed); joints very slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, but a good to very good copy with the bookplate of Harry Colin Miller on the front paste-down end-paper and the autograph "E A Lowe" on the top margin of the title-page. The latter is possibly Elias Avery Lowe (1879 - 1969), the distinguished paleographer. The English firm of music publishers and instrument makers probably started up in the 1790s, went bankrupt in 1789, and re-emerged in conjunction with other publishers and printers. The Magdalen Hospital was founded in 1758, and this is one of many publications of hymns and sacred music associated with it. The first hymn is "Awake my Soul" by Philip Doddrige (1702 - 1751), sometimes sung to music from Handel's opera Ciroë. A manuscript notation of the title page after printed "Book" adds "1 to 4" and also in ms is the price, "10/6".

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Book number: 7699

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MALCOLM (Alexander):

A Treatise of Musick, Speculative, Practical, and Historical. Containing An Explication of the Philosophical and Rational Grounds and Principles thereof; The Nature and Office of the Scale of Musick; The whole Art of Writing Notes; And the General Rules of Composition. With A Particular Account of the Antient Musick, and a Comparison thereof with the Modern.

London: Printed for J. Osborn and T. Longman..., 1730. 8vo, 10 x 116 mms., pp. xxiv, 608, 6 folding engraved plates at end, recently rebound (somewhat clumsily) in quarter navy morocco, morocco label, marbled boards; margins and edges a little browned. With the autograph "J. [?Brestland ?Bresthand Junr." on the top margin of the front free end-paper, and, in pencil, at the bottom, "Received [in] Balto Arp. 1944/ Sent by Milton Wertheimer Jr. (Corp'l)/ from England while in U. S. Army." Malcolm (1685 - 1763) was born in Edinburgh but emigrated to New York in 1734, and he died in Maryland in 1763. In his early career, he divided his time between teaching mathematics and related subjects, but it was the above book which made his reputation. Malcolm's approach is both philosophical and technical, and John Hawkins described the work as "one of the most valuable treatises on the subject of theoretical and practical music to be found in any of the modern languages." Charles Burney, in compiling The Cyclopaedia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature (1802 - 1819) with Abraham Rees, based his definitions of musical terms on those of Malcolm. This is a re-issue of the first edition, published in Edinburgh in 1721, with a cancel title-page and the dedication to the "Directors of the Royal Academy of Music" removed.

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Book number: 4436

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MAPLESON (James Henry):

The Mapleson Memoirs 1848 - 1888.

London Remington & Co..., 1888. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 213 x 130 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 327 [328 blank]; vii [viii blank], 319 [320 advert], including half title in each volume, portrait in volume 1, contemporary half sheepskin, marbled boards, gilt title on spines. A very good set. The opera manager James Henry Mapleson (1830 - 1901) began his career as an opera singer, but his one and only performance in London in Auber's Masaniello ended that aspiration. His career was checkered, but, as ODNB notes, "In 1856 Mapleson opened a concert and dramatic agency, using his Italian contacts and his knowledge of the language to supply artists for Covent Garden and Her Majesty's, and in 1858 was engaged by E. T. Smith, a jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur and lessee of Drury Lane, to manage a season of Italian opera there. Three years later Mapleson took the Lyceum Theatre for a season of his own, and then moved on to Her Majesty's, where he remained until the theatre burnt down on 6 December 1867. These were his most prosperous and significant years as an opera impresario." Bernard Shaw in London Music described these memoirs as entertaining, but unreliable, covering "a period of hopeless decay" exhibiting "want of life, purpose, sincerity and concerted artistic effort."

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Book number: 7822

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MARINO (Giovanni Bapttista):

Dicerie Sacre Del Cavalier Marino. Cioè Pittura. Musica. Et Ciolo. Con licenza de' Superiori, & Privilegio.

In Venetia, Appresso Iseppo Imberti, 1628. 12mo, 131 x 65 mms., foliated but with numerous errors, [6], 1 - 71, 39, 73 - 96 [95 -title - page for La Musica], 86, 99 - 101, 86, 103 - 131, 145 - 156, 133 - 144, 153, 157 - 163, 145, 165, 147, 167 - 263 [235 title-page for Il Cielo], 260 - 262, 267, 264, 269, 265, 171, 268, 273, 270, 275 - 289 [290], but collated and complete, contemporary vellum; short tear in fore-margin of fol. 106 (F10), small pieces missing from four margins without affecting text, but a very good copy.

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Book number: 9257

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[MAXWELL (John)]:

An Essay upon Tune. Being an Attempt To free the Scale of Music, and the Tune of Instruments, from Imperfection. Illustrated with Plates.

Edinburgh: Printed [by Macfarquhar and Elliot] for C. Elliot, Edinburgh; and T. Cadell, London, 1781. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 204 x 130 mms., pp. iv, 290 [291 Corrections, 292 blank], 19 large folding engraved plates, 8 between pages 151 and 152, the rest at the end of the volume, 20th century library cloth; ex-library, with various library stamps, and bookplate of City of Liverpool Public Libraries on front paste-down end-paper; title-page slightly soiled. A rather unsightly binding. This work has also been attributed to Francis Kelly Maxwell (ESTC retains this attribution), but New Grove assigns it to John Maxwell (died 1806). a Scottish writer on music, based on manuscripts of Maxwell's in the Huntington Library. Five hundred copies of this first edition were printed, and a second edition was published in 1794. Charles Burney, assisted by Thomas Twining, reviewed the work in the April, 1782, issue of the Critical Review, praising it as a "work of singular merit..., [presenting] in a very strong and clear point of view, the imperfections of temperament, and errors of the best performers. It therefore deserves the attention of every practical musician, not only as a curious but useful production; as it will convince him of the importance of improvements in intonation, and stimulate a desire to counteract the influence of tempered instruments and systems of temperament, which have certainly introduced into practice an indifference and insensibility to intonation; corrupted our ears; [and] prevented our search after true harmony...." The work is a major contribution to the development of equal temperament. Gregory and Bartlett: Catalogue of Early Books on Music before 1800, p. 176;Kassler: The Science of Music in Britain, II, 760 - 761. RISMB, VI, 566.

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Book number: 8917

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MEIBOM (Marcus):

Antiquae Musicae Auctores Septem. Graece et Latine. Restuit ac Notis explicavit.

Amstelodami, Apud Ludovicum Elzvirium, 1652. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes in 1. Thick 4to, 215 x 158 mms., pp. [lii], 132, [4], 68, [4], 60, [4] 5 - 8, 80, [4], 40, [4], 36; [viii], 363 [364 blank], both title-pages in red and black, printed in double columns, text in Greek and Latin, and with woodcut printer's device, 5 folding letterpress tables, of which 4 are printed in red and black, woodcut musical annotation, diagrams and decorative initials, contemporary mottled calf, expertly rebacked, with raised bands between gilt rules, red morocco label; some occasional staining but a very good copy of this remarkabled work. Marcus Meibomius (c. 1630, Tönningen – 1710/1711, Utrecht) was a Danish scholar, probably He is best known as a historian of music, as an antiquarian, and as the first librarian at the Denmark's Royal Library. He was also a philologist and mathematician. The present book, on antique Greeek music, and "It printed works, in Greek originals with Latin translation, by Aristoxenos, Cleonides (though attributed to Euclid), Gaudentius, Nicomachus, Alypius, Bacchius, and Aristides Quintilianus (supported by Martianus Capella). It is now seen as pioneer scholarship, not supplanted until the twentieth century, and largely comprehensive on the topic. He attempted concert performances reconstructing Greek music" Wikipedia. Hagel Stefan, and Christine Harrauer, Ancient Greek Music in Performance: Symposion Wien 29. Sept-1. Okt. 2003.

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Book number: 10010

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MOORE (Arthur William):

Manx Ballads and Music. With a Preface by the Rev. T. E. Brown

Printed and Published by G. and R. Johnson, Prospect Hill, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 224 x 148 mms., pp. xxxvi, 225, 225 - 265, with pages 224 - 265 being music for the songs, errata slip at end, stiff paper covers, original paper wrappers, with title in red and black on front cover and engraved vignettes; wrapper defective at spine and lower front joint. Although Arthur William Moore (1853 - 1909) was a business man and politician, books like this made him an important Manx scholar. He has no illusions or false perceptions about these songs: "The next thing that strikes us in the survey of our little field is that the songs are so few in number, and, in quality, so trifling, so unromantic, so unpoetical, and so modern."

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Book number: 6896

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MOORE (Edward):

Solomon. A Serenata. Taken from the Canticles. The Music composed by Doctor Boyce. The Words, by Mr. Moore.

[No place] [No publisher ? London, 1760] [1760] 8vo, 204 x 128 mms., pp. 16, including half-title,later wrappers, with stitching renewed; text soiled and browned, libretto only, no music. This work by William Boyce (1711 - 1799) and Edward Moore (1712–1757) had its premiere in the same year as Handel's Messiah, 1742 and almost seemed to rival that work in its popularity, as is evidenced by the number of editions of this work listed in ESTC. This appears to be ESTC T160145, with copies located, in NLS and Bodleian.

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Book number: 8536

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MOSCHELES (Felix). [COLERIDGE (Arthur Duke)], translator:

Life of Moscheles, with selections from His Diaries and Correspondence. By his Wife. Adapted from the Original German by A. D. Coledridge.

London: Hurst and Blackett..., 1879. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 198 x 126 mms., pp. xvi, 333 [334 blank]; xi [xii blank], 319 [320 colophon], portrait frontispiece (foxed), contemporary embossed cloth, spines blocked in gilt, with ownership stamp on the title page, and the discrete book ticket of Francis Carter, bookseller in Canterbury, on the lower margin of the front paste-down end-paper in each volume. A very good set, with the autograph of Charlotte Moscheles mounted at the end of her preface. The pianist and composer Ignaz Moscheles (1794 - 1870) was born in Prague but spent a great deal of his time in England from 1821. He left England with his family in 1846 to become Professor of piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. Charlotte's biography of him, Aus Moscheles' Leben was published in 1872, and ODNB notes, it "give[s] a lively and sympathetic account of English musical life in the twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846." There are also very good accounts of Berliod, Lizst and Wagner, when they were in Britain. The translator, Arthur Duke Coleridge, was the great-nephew of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and he has the distinction of having formed the Bach Society. Moscheles died in Leipzig on 10 March 1870.

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Book number: 8615

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MOZART (Wolfgang Amadeus):

The Letters of Mozart & His Family. Chronologically Arranged, Translated and Edited with an Introduction, Notes and Indices by Emily Anderson. With Extracts from the letters of Constanze Mozart to Johann Anton André translated and edited by C. B. Oldman.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1938. FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. Large 8vo, 220 x 140 mms., pp. xxxix [xl blank], 456; xix [xx blank], [457 - 1054 [1055 adverts, 1056 blank]; xxvii [xxviii blank], [1057] - 1560, including half-titles, frontispiece in each volume, 2 facsimiles in each of volumes 1 and 2, 1 facsimile in volume 3, 40 numbered illustrations in the three volumes, original blue cloth, blocked in gilt on spines, 20th century autograph of Leila Lasalles and other Lasalles family on the recto of the front free end-paper in each volume. A very good set.

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Book number: 6028

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MOZART. NOHL (Ludwig):

The Life of Mozart Translated from the German Work of Dr Ludwig Nohl. By Lady Wallace.

London: Longmans, Green, and Co..., 1877. FIRST EDITION of this translation. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xvii [xviii blank], 260, 2; [vi], 320, engraved portrait frontispiece in each volume, original cloth; fore-margin of pp. xv -xvi in volume 1 frayed and soiled, binding a little soiled. Nohl (1831 - 1885) published this work in 1863, and it proved to be a popular success.

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Book number: 3335

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