Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
St. Martin's Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. As new in as new dust jacket. Hardcover. First edition. 379 pages, with index. Illustrated with black and white, and colored photographs.
Music
For Those In Love (inscribed by Parish)
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.....
The Language Of Modern Music
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.....
The Life of Heinrich Conried (inscribed by Conried's son Richard)
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.....
The Songs and Ballads of George P. Morris (First Complete Edition)
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.....
Heinrich Schurtz: A Short Account of His Life and Works
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......
Kammermusik Serie VIII: Werkguuppe 19: Srreichquintette und Quintette Mit Blasern; Abt. 2: Quintette Mit Blasern
Basel: Barenreiter Kassel, 1958. Softcover. Oversized in printed softcovers. xviii+50 pp. Introductory essay in German; with five reproductionsof original manuscripts. Fine.
An Essay on Thouroughbass (Musicologicl Studies and Documents No. 4)
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.
Creative Harmony and Mucisianship: An Introduction to the Structure of Music
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.....
Fourteen Liturgical Works (full scores with lyrics)
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.
Nathan Milstein signed pamphlet from the Great Concert Artists series with handbill from 1976 Carnegie Hall concert
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......
Muisc in Primitive Culture
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.....
Perspectives on John Philip Sousa
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.....
Moreschi And the Voice of the Castrato
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.....
One Hundred Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais from the Late Middle Ages
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.....
Christie's, Important Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Music
London: White Brothers, 1995. Softcover. Like New softcover is a very nice clean copy.
Mahler Remembered
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.....
Barrel Organ: The Story of the Mechanical Organ and Its Repair
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.....
Fifiteth Anniversary Convention of the Organ Historical Society: An Organ Atlas of the Capital District Region of New York State
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.
26 Original Kompositionen fur Gitarre allein
Franfurt: Zimmermann. Softcover. Ovesized sofcovers, 24 pp. Fine, fresh unused example.
Twenty-Six Composition for Guitar Alone
Boca Raton, Fl: Masters Music Publications. Softcover. AS NEW. Glossy illustrated softcovers. 24 pp.
Sonatas For Violin Solo and Violoncello With Cembalo (Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era Vol. XX)
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.....
Calisthenic Songs Illustrated
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.....
The Music of Henry Fillmore and Will Huff
Integrity Press, 1982. Paperback. AS NEW. Illustrated softcovers. x+ 61 pp. with index, bibliography. Introductort essay by Bierley. Catalog of the music composed by bandmaster Henry Fillmore, including the many pieces written under his seven pseudonyms and by Will Huff.
Ernesto Lecuona - Suite Andalucia
Hal Leonard Corporation, 1998. Paperback. AS NEW. Oversized in glossy softcovers. 44 pp.