New York: Mutual Music Society, 1943. First edition. Hardcover. First ediiton. Hardcover in dark red cloth lettered in gilt. 116 pp. Illustrated with photographs and full and fargment musical examples. The two stapled scores--"Song Of The Volga Boatmen" and " I'm Thrilled" are laid in as issued. A tight, near.....
New York: Cromwell/ Richmond, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Presumed first ediiton. Slim 8vo hardcover. Inscribed on the front free endpaper, "For _______/ with all my best wishes/ Mitchell Parish'. 53 pp. plus additional author's biographical information. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a trace of wear at the spine.....
London: Faber and Faber, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. 140 pp. Fine, fresh example in bright, crisp dust jacket. In this work, the author draws many parallels between the modern evolution in music and the modern movements in painting and architechture. There is particular emphasis on Schoenberg and.....
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1916. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in midnight green cloth lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. 365 pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Inscribed on the dedication page by Richard G. Conried, son of Heinrich Conried). A tight example, gilt lettering bright, very faint evidence.....
New York: Cady & Burgess, 1852. First edition. Hardcover. First edition with "First Complete Edition" stated on title page. 24mo. in blindstamped blue cloth with spine decorated and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. 126 pp. including notes at rear. Includes 68 "Melodies" (including "woodman, Spare That Tree") and 10.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1967. First American edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 122 pp. with discography, index and works and general index. Frontispiece portrait and with musical examples. First American edition. Translated from the German. Fine in near fine dust jacket. The first of its kind to appear in nEnglish, a......
Basel: Barenreiter Kassel, 1958. Softcover. Oversized in printed softcovers. xviii+50 pp. Introductory essay in German; with five reproductionsof original manuscripts. Fine.
American Institute of Musicology, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover in printed paper-covered boards over red cloth spine. 130 pp. Illustrated throughout with musical examples. Fine in lightly toned dust jacket.
NY: Prentice Hall, 1954. Hard Cover. Cloth, 618 pps. Musical notations throughout. Fourth printing. A classic in the field of musical theory which presents a method of learning harmony tyhrough the analysis of great music. It emphasizes learning by doing and treats all aspects of music functionally rather than theoretically.....
William Morrow & Co, 1973. Hardcover. Hardcover. 333 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Third printing. fine in dust jacket with chips and creases at the upper spien and both top corners, some wear at the folds.
Madison: A-R Editions, 1969. Softcover. Ovesized in illustrated softcovers. xi+84 pp. Volume V in the Recent Researches in the Music of The Renaissance series. Historical preface. Collection of fourteen liturgical works by Giovanni Maria Nanino (b. 1545). Fine.
Geneva: Rene Kister, 1956. Softcover. Softcovers in photographic self wrappers. 32 pp. with discography. Text in English by Bernard Gavoty and illustrated throughout with striking black and white images by Roger Hauert. BOLDLY SIGNED IN INK BY MILSTEIN ON THE TITLE PAGE. Covers are rather soiled and there is a......
Cambridge: Harvard, 1956. First. Hard Cover. First printing. Cloth, 182 pps. with index, annotated bibliography, appendix of 60 musical examples of typical styles of the music of primative cultures. Groundbreaking work which brings together the widely scattered information on this important branch of ethno-musicology or comparative musicology. Fine in bright.....
Library Of Congress, 1983. Hardcover. Oversized hardcover in buff colored linen covered boards stamped in brown, red and gilt. Illustrated endpapers. viii+ 144 pp. Illustrated with vintage photographs and reproductions, musical quotations. Issued by the Musical Division of The Library of Congress, a collection of seven essays on composer and.....
London: Haus Publishing, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. New in dust jacket. Hardcover. First printing. xiv+ 353 pp. with reading list, index. Illustrations. Alessandro Moreschi was known during his lifetime as "The Angel Of Rome' and is remembered as the only castrato singer of whom recordings survive. Historically he was the.....
Cambridge. U.K. Cambridge University Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover in red cloth with spine stamped in maroon and gilt. First edition. 212 pp. with bibliography, glossary, index of first lines. Illustrated with musical examples. Anthology of ballades, rondeaux and virelais from French lyric poets/composers of the 14th and 15th.....
London: White Brothers, 1995. Softcover. Like New softcover is a very nice clean copy.
W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. Paperback. Softcovers. xxx+ 322 pp. with index. Illustrations. Fine, fresh apparently unread example. Biography. The biographer sets out to discover composer Gustav Mahler, the man and the musician, through the words of his contemporaries. Using many previously unpublished documents, he contructs a profile of.....
NY: A.S. Barnes, 1978. First. Hardcover. First printing. Cloth, 567 pps. with index, bibliography, appendix of the illustrated Catalogue of the Auction Sale of Messers Flight & Robson (1832). Illustrated with photographs and drawings. A history of a usually overlooked part of the story of the organ---the mechanical or barrel.....
Richmond, VA: Organ Historical Society, 2006. Softcover. AS NEW. Oversized color illustrated softcovers. 250 pp. Illustrated throughout with vintage and contemporary photographs, reproductions, and panoramic 19th century views of various towns in the region.
New York: Scribners, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Red cloth hardcovers. 404 pp. with index. Illustrated. The personal memoirs of Ignace Jan Paderewski, world famous Polish composer and conductor. For decades, he resisted committing his memoirs to paper until teaming with American Mary Lawson in 1933 when a secretary.....
Franfurt: Zimmermann. Softcover. Ovesized sofcovers, 24 pp. Fine, fresh unused example.
Boca Raton, Fl: Masters Music Publications. Softcover. AS NEW. Glossy illustrated softcovers. 24 pp.
Madison: A-R Editions, 1975. Softcover. Oversized in printed softcovers. xi + 122 pp. Introductory essay, illustrated with reproductions of the original 1712 Paris imprint. Inserted is a 45 page booklet contain scores for 12 additional sonatas. Generally fine, some fade to the edges and some foxing along the outer edge.....
New York & Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., 1869. First. Cloth. First printing. Oblong octavo in limp dark brown cloth covered boards lettered in gilt; 68 pps. plus index; illustrated throughout with woodcut diagrams of children doing calisthenic exercises. An unusal songster comprised of music for children to sing.....
