Third edition. One Volume edition. This revision of Emily Anderson's classic translation of 1938, takes account of recent research into the chronology of Mozart's works and the identity of his various acquaintances. Pp.lii/1038, 24 pages of black & white plates, slight indentation to lower margin of index pages. Paperback. VG. View More...
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East Anglian Productions, 2017. 0901854002
Seller ID: 48003
ISBN: 0901854002
Published to mark the Gollden Anniversary of Radio Caroline defying the Government's Marine Broadcasting Offences Act. "When Radio Carooline started broadcasting off Felixstowe in Suffolk on Easter Saturday, 28th March 1964. It was the start of a new industry which flourishes todaay in the shape of (Commercial) Independent Radio." Landscape format. 21cms x 29.5cms. Pp.83, illustrated throuughout. Paperback. Scarce. VG. View More...
A selection of 55 articles from the BBC magazine "The Listener". Most of them deal with specific compositions that were subsequently broadcast, a few mark anniversaries, while some are transcripts of broadcast talks." Pp.xii/260. Brown cloth, dustwrapper has minor edge wear and chipping to base of spine. VG/VG. View More...
Compilation of black & white photos chronicling the Pirate Radio station Radio Caroline. 29.5cms x 20.5cms. Pp.47, black & white photos throughout. Pbk. Scarce. VG. View More...
"Collection of composers biographies that survey musical 'mankind from Pekin to Peru' over the centuries during which music has developed into what we find it today." Pp.372, pages slightly toned, owners name to fep. Pbk, cover illustration by David Gentleman. G+. View More...
"A look at the world of music...An excellent introduction to an often difficult subject." Pp. 128. 16 b/w. illustrations. P/b. Portrait cover. G+. View More...
Publisher:
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Seller ID: 42637
1st edition. Detailed study of an unusually fruitful interrelationship between English Music and English Poetry. Pp.xvi/619. Blue cloth, only Volume 2 has a dustwrapper which is in very good condition. VG/VG. View More...
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York: British Poetry-Drama Guild / The Lotus Press, 1949.
Seller ID: 47583
1st edition. A series of personal pen-portraits of: Benjiamino Gigli, Eva Turner, Lauritz Melchior, Toti Dal Monte, Luigi Infantino, Ljuba Welitsch, Paolo' Silveri, Constance Shacklock, Tito Gobbi, and The English Opera Group, with illustrations of the artists presented. Pp.51, 10 black & white photo plates, slight toning to pages. Paperback, slightly rubbed. VG. View More...
1st edition. "Full-length study of the life and music of the composer George Butterworth (1885-1916), whose career was cut short by a sniper's bullet at the Somme. ...All of Butterworth's surviving works are discussed, and important chapters examine his Housman settings and his friendship with Vaughan Williams. Butterworth was also prominent in the English folksong revival, and Michael Barlow chronicles for the first time his extensive activities as a folksong and dance collector....Includes some of Butterworth's own writings on music." Pp.204, occasional black & white photos. Black... View More...
Joseph M. "Joe" Davis (6 October 1896 – 3 September 1978[1]) was an American music producer, publisher and promoter in jazz, rhythm and blues and pop music...He has to be considered as an important influence for Fats Waller, having actually talked the shy, reluctant Waller into considering a performing career.(wiki). Pp.346, black & white portrait photo frontispiece + 33 further illustrations. White cloth, gilt title to spine. Scarce. VG. View More...
New impression. Autobiography of Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (1883 1953), the English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his orchestral music. In addition to a series of symphonic poems he wrote seven symphonies and was for a time widely regarded as the leading British symphonist. Pp.112, owner's name to front free endpaper. Blue cloth, spine and lower edges of boards sunned. G+. View More...
1st edition. "Written in fulfilment of a personal pledge to Jelka Delius[the wife of Delius], and...makes clear the facts of the composer's life, disentangling them from the ambiguity and legend that his previous biographers - and even Delius himself, when in playful mood - have surrounded them." Pp.228, portrait frontispiece + 16 further black & white illustrations, spotting to closed page edges. Green cloth, dustwrapper has edge wear and two 1cm tears to top of rear cover. G+/G+. View More...
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1977. 0575023287
Seller ID: 42432
ISBN-13: 9780575023284
1st edition. "For 25 years the famous baritone Pierre Bernac, with Poulenc at the piano, toured Europe giving recitals, and also visited Britain and America. Thanks to their work, not only in the French repertoire but also in the general Lieder repertoire, the piano-accompanied song increased enormously in popularity in their own country, and in other countries..." Pp.233, black & white photo portrait frontispiece + 6 furthe pages of black & white photo plates. Dark crimson cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG. View More...
1st ed. A study of music from ...1485 to the 20th century. Pp. 220/3(ads). Inscrip. to verso front cover, marks to inside back cover.Toning to pages. P/b. G. View More...
1st edition. "Popular songs have always taken sex as one of their main subjects, and in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the English were more explicit about it than they are now: they didn't disguise it as "love" and they admitted with relish that it was not only pleasant but also funny....the volume [Pills to Purge Melancholy" became established as a high point in the long tradition of bawdy, while at the same time being essentially of its period in its polish, cynicism and wit." 25cms x 19cms x 2cms. Pp.219, owner's name and notation to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, dustwrapper ... View More...
English translations by Robert Whistler. English & German words. 31cms x 23.5cms. Pp.63. Paperback, owner's name (singing coach Jean Marshall) to top of front, rubbing to price, wear to top andd tail of spine. G+. View More...
Publisher:
South Croydon: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd.
Seller ID: 47526
Simrock's Edition. Includes: 1.To a Nightingale; 2.To a Violet; 3.The Blacksmith; 4.A Hamlet 'Neath the Willows; 5.In Summer Fields; 6.Good Night (serenade); 7.Ever Lighter Grow My Slumbers; 8.Constancy; 9.Love Song; 10.The Sandman; 11.Sapphic Ode; 12.Parting; 13.Sunday; 14.Serenade; 15.True Love; 16.The Vain Suit; 17.Gracious and Kind Art Thou, My Queen; 18.Lullaby; 19.Melodious Strains of Gladness; 20.We Wandered.28cms x 21.5cms. Pp.93, music with words in German, English, and French. Cream card cover, owner's name (singing coach Jean Marshall) to top front. VG. View More...
"Elaine Brody has captured all the variety and vitality of the city that emerged as the musical capital of the world between 1870 and 1925. Her portrait of Parisian musicians, artists and poets, many of whom made up the city's thriving cafe society, is framed by the struggle between France and Germany for the cultural dominance of Europe." Pp.xvi/359, occasional black & white photos and illustrations. Maroon cloth, dustwrapper. VG/VG. View More...
Publisher:
New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1915.
Seller ID: 43378
1st edition. Includes an Account of a von Bulow Class, Hints on Interpretation, by two American Teachers (Dr William Mason and William H Sherwood) and a Summary by the Author. Pp.xii/299, portrait photo frontispiece ( Ignace Jan Paderewsk) + 15 further portrait plates, toning to pages, cracking to inner front hinge but holding. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine, photo of Paderewski pasted to front board is rubbed, edges rubbed. Good. View More...
1st ed. "Choir work; percussion; learning new hymns; listening to music; painting, writing and movement to music". Pp 112. P/b, slight scuffing to spine, illustrated cover. G+. View More...
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