Search Results: MUSIC from Hawkmoor Books Ltd

BERNHARD SCHUSTER XVIII JAHRGANG, 1925. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. DATED 1925-1926. 944 PAGES WITH A FEW BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS. MY GERMAN IS NONE EXISTANT BUT THE BOOK APPEARS TO BE A SMALL SECTION OF MANY DIFFERENT ARTISTS OF THE PERIOD. INCLUDED AMONG THESE ARE KARL GRUNSKY, MAX KRAUSSOLD AND KARL WEINMANN.

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK, HARPER & ROW, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket condition: Very Good Published : 1989 1st Edition: Yes. Pages: 315. Important large critical study on her father's wonderful film career written by the late film historian and curator. Vincente Minnelli was one of the most honored directors in the history of the American screen. The acknowledged master of the movie musical (Cabin in the Sky, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Pirate, An American in Paris, The Band Wagon, Gigi), Minnelli also triumphed at everything from sophisticated comedy (Father of the Bride, The Long, Long Trailer, Designing Woman, The Courtship of Eddie's Father), to period biography (Lust for Life) and melodrama (The Clock, Madame Bovary, The Bad and the Beautiful, Some Came Running, Two Weeks in Another Town). In Directed by Vincente Minnelli, author and film critic Stephen Harvey chronicles this outstanding director's career… Read More

CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED, 1893. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Ex-library: No. Previous owners inscriptions: No. Book Condition: acceptable - webbing showing inside cover. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: 1893. 1st Edition: . Pages: 195. Description: Words and music (for voice and piano) for 132 children's rhymes and songs. Includes Billy Pringle, Frog and the Crow, There Was an Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket, Who Liveth So Merry in all This Land, Sir Simon de Montfort, To the Maypole Haste Away, The Three Jovial Huntsmen.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book Condition: very good. Hardcover with dust jacket in good + condition a little bumped at edges. In this lavishly illustrated volume the history and social context of opera is explored by a group of leading British and American scholars, under the editorship of Roger Parker. The core of the book is a historical survey of opera, from its beginnings in Florence four hundred years ago, up to opera in the 1990s. The greatest coverage is given to the nineteenth century, the time during which most of the operas performed today were composed. There are also chapters on the staging of opera, on opera singers, on opera as a social occasion.Although all major composers of opera are mentioned, and their works discussed, the various chapters concentrate less on simple historical narrative and more on the complex development of opera, especially on its relationship with the other arts and its place within the broader world of culture… Read More

Boosey & Co Limited. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Previous owners inscriptions: Yes. Book Condition: Good. Jacket condition: No jacket. Published: Undated. 1st Edition: Unknown. Pages: 235. Description: Contains the music of the opera with Italian words and a new English adaptation by John Oxenford. Arranged by Sullivan & Pittman.