ANON

Old Scotch Gems in Song and Scenery

Glasgow, David Bryce & son. Hardcover. Undated. Traditional songs, with music, illustrated with b/w sketches and photographs of Scottish scenes. Green cloth a little worn and marked, dulled gilt titles with thistle decorations, no inscriptions, pages yellowed, some gathering loosening, good. Good.

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Book number: 11948

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, POETRY, SONG, MUSIC Poetry Scottish

CURWEN, JOHN

Tonic Sol-Fa

London, Novello and company. Hardcover. No 18 in the Novello and company music primer and educational series. Attractive pasteboard cover, bright and clear gilt titles on cloth spine. Traces of small publisher sticker on front board. Bookseller stamp on ffep and small closed tear. Publisher's 2/6 price sticker to title page. Using tonic sol- fa armed with an understanding of staff music notation. 44pp. No publish date stated. Late Victorian or early Edwardian? 0. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 9976

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC, TEACHING, EDUCATION, TONIC SOL-FA, MUSICAL NOTATION.

ALLAN ERIC

A Highland Gathering

Drumossie, Eric Allan. 1993. Soft cover. New tunes in traditional Scottish style for fiddlers, accordionists and other players, with chords and some harmony parts. Large stapled booklet, light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 11592

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, MUSIC Scottish

LE FLEMING, CHRISTOPHER

The Use of Music in Religious Drama

London, The Religious Drama Society. 1950. Soft cover. A discussion of suitable music to accompany plays with a religious theme. Stapled booklet, small scribble to front cover verso, no other inscriptions, good. Good.

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Book number: 9632

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: STAGE, THEATRE, THEATER, DRAMA, PLAY, SCRIPT, PLAYSCRIPT, Religion

FORD, ROBERT

Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland with Many Old and Familiar Melodies

Paisley, Alexander Gardner. 1899. Hardcover. A fine collection of traditional songs, many with music. Original blue cloth covers a little worn and marked, spine yellowed, gold lettering and decoration dulled but still legible, spine mended top and tail, eps yellowed, no inscriptions, tissue-guarded frontis. clean, tight and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 9222

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, BALLAD, TRADITION, MUSIC, SONG

BOULTON, HAROLD AND SOMERVELL, ARTHUR

Songs of the Four Nations

London, J B Cramer. 1892. Hardcover. First edition: the 'Subscribers' Royal Edition'. Blue cloth, gold lettering, wear to spine top and tail, heraldic ownership plate to front paste-down, owner's surname to title page, with the stamped signatures of the two authors, otherwise clean, sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 12234

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC, SONG

HOLMES, H W KAJ N

Komuma Kantilibro

Rickmansworth, The Esperanto Publishing Co. 1947. Soft cover. A community song-book in Esperanto, with music. Stapled booklet, covers worn and sunned, name to front cover, good only. Good.

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Book number: 11710

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: ESPERANTO, MUSIC, SONG

BURNS, ROBERT; LEES, JOHN KENYON; INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL NOTES: H C SHELLEY

The Songs of Burns for Voice and Pianoforte: With Symphonies and Accompaniments by John Kenyon Lees

London/Glasgow, Bayley and Ferguson. Hardcover. Centenary edition. Green cloth decorated in gold, marked, rubbed, and worn to corners and spine top and tail, gilt all round, brown eps with small 'Vickers Gramaphone' sticker to ffep and small stamp to title page, portrait frontis and many illustrations, pages yellowed, very occasional grubby marks, one gathering loose, but still handsome, good. A heavy book. Good.

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Book number: 12232

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, POETRY, POEMS, MUSIC Poetry Scottish

KARL JENKINS

Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi: Vocal Score for Chorus (Ssa), Optional Recorder and Piano

London, Boosey and Hawkes. Soft cover. Undated. Very light wear to covers, name to ffep but no other inscriptions, clean and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 12089

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: MUSIC

JEAN JENKINS

Man and Music: A Survey of Non-European Musical Instruments

Royal Scottish Museum. 1983. (ISBN: 0900733322). Soft cover. Instruments from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. Fully illustrated. VG, no inscriptions. Very Good.

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Book number: 13088

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: 0900733322 MUSIC

J WALKER MCSPADDEN

Opera Synopses: A Guide to the Plots and Characters of the Standard Operas

George G Harrap. 1920. Hardcover. Reprint, revised and enlarged. Wear and rubbing to illustrative covers, inscription dated 1921 to ffep, pages yellowed, otherwise sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 13269

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music, drama, opera

ARRANGED MAINLY BY ALFRED MOFFAT

The Scottish Song Book for Baritone: A Collection of the Favourite Songs and Ballads of the North

London/Glasgow, Bayley and Ferguson. Soft cover. Undated. Some 44 songs with accompaniment. Decorative cream covers a little worn and marked, spine weak and mended with archival tape, good only. Good.

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Book number: 12146

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: SCOTTISH, SCOTLAND, MUSIC, SONG Scottish

WALTON, ED.

Walton's 181 Best International Songs

Walton's Musical Instrument Galleries. Soft cover. Undated. Words only, not music. Light wear to illustrative covers, no inscriptions, clean and sound, good. Good.

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Book number: 13484

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: music, song