Search Results: Music from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 225 p. w/ footnotes, music examples, tables, illus., appendix, bibliography, index. A study of operas examining the place of the artist in society, and their political contexts.

Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Studies, 1955. Second edition. Oversized Softcover. Good. Thick quarto (slightly oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A bit more wear to spine, with a small damp stain at head. 532 p. w/ bars of music, lyrics, appendix, index. Over 280 songs with brief provenance entries for each one, some with much greater discussion. The primary difference between the first edition of 1940 and this edition is the foreword by Weaterhly, with very few corrections drawn from notes in Belden's own copy of the first edition.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corner of boards. No dj issued. xiii, 360 p. w/ illus., biography, chronology discography, appendix, bibliography, index. A solid reference for the research or collector covering the work of this collaborative duo of many successful Hollywood musicals and Broadway shows. The book covers their work on stage, radio, and the large and small screens. They worked with many stars, including Astair, Bernstein, Gene Kelly, and others, and were inducted into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame.

New York, NY: Garland Publishing , 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with slight scuffing to covers. Rear pastedown endpaper was not properly glued down and has fold on upper corner. Light smudge on fore-edges of pages. 636 pages with indices. An excellent reference work for material on the Blues.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. First edition, second printing. Hardcover in full cloth. Very Good. No dust jacket issued. Quarto (oversize). Slight wear to edges of boards. Slight scuffing to covers. Name and address of former owner stamped twice on first pastedown. 305 p. w/ select bibliography, notes, appendix.. with many musical examples. An excellent work on these instruments, focusing on 17th & early 18th c. music.

Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xxi (2), 911p. w/ illus., musical notation, appendices, glossary, indices, and extensive endnotes and bibliography. Also, 90 illus. of important figures and groups in New Music are included on unnumbered pages. A detailed study of the development of 20th century Chinese music reflecting compositional techniques and musical idioms of 18th to early 20th c. European musical styles.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. First paperback edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. xix, 328 p. w/ footnotes, musical notations, appendix of longer musical examples, bibliography, index. A study balancing theory, technical exposition and aesthetics of Schoenberg's early works.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Slight waviness to first few pages. xiv, 346 p. w/ scores, footnotes, glossary, select bibliography, index. A collection of 22 scholarly essays by music theorists, 17 written for this volume.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corner of boards. No dj issued. Boards slightly curved. xiv, 608 p. w/discography, various bibliographies, performances, filmography, appendices, index. A reference work surveying the life and output of Gershwin in performance, recordings, and film.

Hildesheim: George Olms Verlag, 2012. Revised and extended edition. . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 325 p. w/many color illus., diagrams, select index of names, glossary, select bibliography, discography of instruments in the Beurmann Collection. A beautifully illustrated book with a great deal of information from an important collection of instruments.

Weterville OH: Integrity Press, 1991, 1996. Later printings. Hardcover. Very good. Three large, heavy quarto volumes. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. Some spotting to lower edge of textblocks. An exhaustive summary of hundreds of artists, with name, dates, short biography where possible references, and list of known works.

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good, price clipped. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more wear to dust jacket. Pencil marks on last endpaper. 314 p. w/ illus., index. An autobiographical survey of the high points in the life of Casals, a talented a Spanish and Puerto Rican cellist, composer, and conductor.

Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013. Later printing. hardcover in illustrated boards . Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Strangely a long inscription on the half title page has been covered up with many from a pen. A few marginalia marks in bibliography. xiii, 304 p. w/musical notation, endnotes, bibliography, index. A study of Italian comic opera during the tumultuous years of the middle Risorgimento.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. 294 p. w/ illus., notes, bibliography, index. A study of the relationship between opera and literature at the Golden Age of opera in Russia, 1840s thru the 1880s.

Tokyo: Shin-Sei Do, ca. 1930. Hardcover. Very good. Small octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Small tears in first free endpaper. Name date, and location of fomer owner on titlte page (Kyoto, 10 Sept. 1930). xii, 227 p. w/ b&w illus. and color woodblock print of Mt. Fuji. A collection of several dozen songs but with no music notation, just lyrics in both Japanese and English. Uncommon

Amherst, MA: Cambria, 2008. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Not issued with a dust jacket. Corners bumped. Marginalia and ink marks in the bibliography ONLY. x,265 p. w/chapter endnotes, bibliography, index.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Hardcover w/pictorial boards. Very good. Thick quarto (over sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket. Covers slightly scuffed. xxiii, 805 p. w/musical notation, illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. A detailed history of the evolution of primarily Western European music in these 2 centuries.

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. Dj has a long tear verticle along eldge of first flap. A few marginalia marks and underlinings in bibliography. xi, 297 p. w/illus., endnotes, bibliography, index. This work examines the role of music n developing the cultture of this region over 100plus years.

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. vii, 99 p. w/ illus., musical notation, index. A guide to playing jazz and learn what is expected from a jazz pianist when he/she joins a band. Uncommon.

London: Saturn Press, 1948. Third edition. Hardcover. Good in Fair dust jacket. Quarto-sized. Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj is worn and has many tears and much chipping along edges with an inch high chip missing from heel of spine. Dj is browned along spine and scuffed on covers. 95 pages with illustrations and some footnotes.