SACHS, CURT

A Short History of World Music

London, Dennis Dobson. 1963. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a small neat name and date to front endpaper with dustjacket that has age darkening to spie and is not price clipped. xv + 351 pages. An outstanding musicologist presents a comprehensive work which covers not only western music in all its periods and styles from the earliest beginnings to the forms evolving today, but also touches on the music of the Orient. NOT EX LIB 11. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 006509

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Musicology, Music History, Early Music, Dufay, Ockeghem, Obrecht, Josquin, Gombert, Palestrina

SCHUBERT, FRANZ

Franz Schubert Songs with Pianoforte Accompaniment

Boston, G. Schirmer. 1895. Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Gilt title and decoration to spine with raised bands in six compartments, half brown leather with leather corners and marbled boards. Light wear to spine sides, head and tail else very clean and unmarked. Top edge gilt. Internally marbled endpapers and very clean and unmarked. Uniform with Schirmer's Library of Clasical Music. Comprises The Maid of the Mill (Mullerliede), Winter Journey (Winterreise), Dying Strains (Schwanengesang) and 24 Favourite Songs. German lyrics and English translations by Dr. Theo Baker. 307 pages. A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.3 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COST A1F. Very Good TEG/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003530

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Schubert Songs

SHORE, BERNARD

Sixteen Symphonies

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1949, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold titles on beige cloth boards which has a bump to one corner tip but clean with no wear. Internally there is a contemporary inscription and date else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is price clipped with chipping and wear with repaired closed tears. Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. The author writes with intimate knowledge of 16 of the world's greatest symphonic masterpieces and their composers, analysing the structural development of each symphony without using technical terms and giving musical illustrations for the most important themes and some of the more haunting melodies played by different sections of the orchestra. In his short essays on the composers he maintains a light informal touch giving brief biographical details. 16 portraits. NOT EX LIB 11. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 005420

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Symphonic Masterpieces, Analysis of the Symphony

STRAUSS, JOHANN

Waltz-Strains - an Album of the Most Popular Waltzes for Piano - Complete Original Versions

London, B. Feldman. 1940. Soft Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Pictorial card cover which has a few minor marks to back, a small name to front and just a little touch of wear to spine edge. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. 121 pages. Not dated probably circa 1940's. MUSIC SCORE FOR PIANO SOLO. Comprises Op. 314, 325, 354, 418, 367, 316, 388, 400, 279, 410, 411, 234, 333, 437, 375. A1F. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 007554

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Johann Strauss Waltzes Music Score

SULLIVAN, PAUL

Sullivan's Music Trivia - the Greatest Music Trivia Book Ever

London, Sanctuary. 2003. (ISBN: 1860745113). Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A compendium of facts on music including history, musicians, songs and much, much more including such essential trivia as naming the people and objects on the Beatles "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album. Essential trivia which will be a source for many quizzes! 21. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 001748

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: 1860745113

HILL, TIM AND CLAYTON, MARIE

The Beatles - Unseen Archives

Bath, Parragon. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0752570455). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket. A large format volume of 384 pages. 600 photographs. The book chronicles the heady years in which the group bestrode the pop world like a colossus. The 600 fabulous photographs, taken by Associated Newspapers' photographers, include over 200 from negatives never previously printed and are published here for the first time with a detailed commentary, which provides an insight into how The Beatles transcended pop icon status to influence an entire generation. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.34 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 22. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009882

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul Mccartney, Ringo Starr, the Beatles 0752570455

TURING, PENELOPE

Hans Hotter - Man and Artist

London, John Calder. 1983, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714539880). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a gentle indentation to front board edge) with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 280 pages. 44 illustrations. Foreword by Sir Georg Solti. This sympathetic biography of a man who has dominated the post-war operatic scene like few others reveals a remarkable personality and supreme artist - the outstanding Wotan of his time in Wagner's Ring Cycle, the ideal portrayer of so many roles on the stage and distinguished interpreter of lieder and concert music on the platform. NOT EX LIB L. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 008125

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: German Opera Singers, Operatic Producers, Wieland Wagner, Wotan 0714539880

VEINUS, ABRAHAM

The Concerto

London, Cassell. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ clean, tight copy which has a small neat name and date to front endpaper and a little light foxing to endpapers with dustjacket which has some chipping and is not price clipped. 330 pages. This brilliantly written book is a history of the development of the concerto from its origins in the 16th and 17th centuries to the present, with a critical list of concerto recordings. It covers the Early Concerto, the Concerto Grosso, the Early Solo, the Classical, the Beethoven, the Romantic, and the Modern. NOT EX LIB 11. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 007706

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Concerto, Grosso, Early Solo, Romantic, Beethoven

VICKERS, HUGO

Great Operatic Disasters

New York, St. Martin's Press. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0312346336). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Ffolkes, Michael. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. First US edition. An affectionate anthology of some of the most memorable and hilarious of disasters from opera houses all over the world amusingly illustrated with cartoons by Michael ffolkes. A1E. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 007579

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Opera, Operatic Disasters 0312346336 Ffolkes, Michael

WAGNER, RICHARD

The Flying Dutchman

London, J.M. Dent. 1969, First Edition. (ISBN: 0460059033). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ill.: Luckmann, Helmut. Gold title and large gold motif to front on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good + copy. Dustjacket is complete and protected by a plastic cover. The first of Wagner's music dramas based on the legend of the sea captain in thrall to the devil, recalled by him when he crossed the Baltic on the 'Thetis' and a storm drove the captain to seek shelter in a Norwegian fjord. Here the story is presented for reading with Helmut Luckmann's powerful pictures in colour. Uniform with the publisher's Curtain raiser series. 2. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 004360

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: German Composers, Music Drama 0460059033 Luckmann, Helmut

WARBURTON, ANNIE O.

Score Reading Form and History

London, Longmans. 1967. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy but with a small name to front pastedown with dustjacket which has a few taped repairs. Seventh impression (first was 1959). xvii + 208 pages. 9 photographs and music scores and drawings in the text. Although an integral part of a series this volume is complete in itself and can be used quite independently to provide a background knowledge for a general recreative study of music. A classic in musical tuition. NOT EX LIB B2C. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 007982

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Music Teaching, Graded Music Course, Score Reading

WILLIAMS, JOHN L.

America's Mistress - the Life and Times of Eartha Kitt

London, Quercus. 2013, First. (ISBN: 9780857385758). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket. First Edition, First Printing. xv + 336 pages. 23 illustrations. Eartha Kitt was a skinny, mixed-race woman with an odd, angular face who was able to persuade fifties white America that she was the sexiest thing it had ever seen. Extraordinarily versatile in her talents, as a singer, actress and dancer, she transcended all the stereotypes meted out to women of her background. She could count Marilyn Monroe, T.S. Eliot, Prince Philip and Albert Einstein amongst her friends and admirers, and almost forget she had once been a poor black girl from the Deep South. This moving and unsettling biography is at once a a profound exploration of the destructive effects of fame and prejudice, and also an unforgettable portrait of an enchanting, unpredictable figure who was once, in the words of Orson Welles, 'the most exciting woman in the world'. D4F. As New/As New.

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Book number: 011044

Catalogue: Music / Musicians

Keywords: Eartha Kitt 9780857385758