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Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony
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Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony

by POUND, Ezra

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Paris: Three Mountains, 1924. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Slight crease along spine, but a fine copy. Small 8vo. Original printed red wrappers, untrimmed, tissue overlay; in a brown cloth slipcase. First edition, one of 400 ordinary copies, of an edition of 440. Inscribed in the year of publication by the American composer (and subject of Pound's book) George Antheil in ink on front flyleaf to [Tr. Hocquard?] "with friendship and thankfulness... Paris 1924." Gallup A25-a. (BA).
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Autograph letter signed ("Ch. Gounod") to "Ma chère Pauline", undoubtedly Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), one of the finest singers and all-around musicians of the period; Blangy du Calvados, 16 July 1877

by GOUNOD, Charles (1818-1893), French composer

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From the Bart Auerbach Collection. 2 pages, 12mo, integral blank leaf, in French. A charming social note: "I have had no news of you since the immediate reply I made to your letter... Did you not receive that reply? I told you as plainly as possible, but I asked you, at the same time, to tell me the probable date of the wedding..." (BA).
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Banjo Studies Part 1 Part 2

Banjo Studies Part 1 Part 2

by BROWER, Grant

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Brooklyn: Grant Brower, 1894. Folio (12 x 9 inches). 24 pp. Musical notation. Original printed wrappers. Somewhat age-darkened, a few chips at edges of wrappers. Revised edition, after the first of 1891. Exercises, scale studies, arpeggios or harp chords, harmonics, slides, double fingering, velocity studies, barre, a duet for two banjos, ending with Brower's composition "Kingston Galop." Scarce. Not in OCLC.
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Barnard College Song Book

Barnard College Song Book

by Undergraduate Association of Barnard College

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New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1925. A very good copy, with a few stains and light wear to binding. 10 x 7 inches. 43 pages. Original blue cloth. "Sing, therefore, as often as may be and as tunefully as you can, these songs of Barnard, new and old, and may they give you joy! (Virginia C. Gildersleeve, from her introduction).
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Capitol Records Fiftieth Anniversary

Capitol Records Fiftieth Anniversary

by GREIN, Pail

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Hollywood, CA: Capitol Records, 1992. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to jacket. Oblang 4to. 219 pages. Color photgraphs. Pictorial boards; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, a limited edition for promotional use only, not for sale.
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Don Giovanni. Don Juan. Oper in zwei Aufzügen von W. A. Mozart für das Pianoforte, ohne Worte...
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Don Giovanni. Don Juan. Oper in zwei Aufzügen von W. A. Mozart für das Pianoforte, ohne Worte eingerichtet von Henri Cramer

by MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Offenbach: Johann André; London: J. J. Ewer; Vienna: F. Glöggl; Leipzig: B. Hermann, 1850. Some light browning and offsetting, wear to boards. Folio (12.5 x 10 inches). Title-page, index, 129 lithographed pages music, catalogue number 6749; 4-page advertisement at end. 19th-century German marbled boards, paper backstrip (partly perished), cloth corners.
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Falstaff. Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts
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Falstaff. Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts

by VERDI, Giuseppe (1813-1901) and Arrigo BOITO (1842-1918)

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Milan, Rome, etc.: G. Ricordi & Co, 1893. 4to (267 x 203 mm; 10½ x 8 inches). 471 pages. Full-page portrait of Verdi. Original gilt-lettered and -ruled green cloth. A fine copy with only slightest of wear at the ends of the spine. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Published the same year as the first edition in Italian. Falstaff is the last of Verdi's operas, composed as he neared his eightieth year. The composer wanted to write a comedy, and collaborated with Boito for three years from mid-1889. Of his 27 operas, this is only his second comedy (the first was his second opera, Un giorno di regno). The work premiered at La Scala in Milan on 9 February 1893; it was published in its original Italian and in translations later that year. .
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Goodtime Kings. Emerging African Pop

Goodtime Kings. Emerging African Pop

by BERGMAN, Bill

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New York: Quill, 1985. A near-fine copy with some light shelfwear to the wrappers. 10 x 7 inches. 143 pages. Original printed wrappers. Includes profiles of King Sunny Adé, Fela Kuti, Prince Nico Mbarga, Tabu Ley Rochereau, Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey, Franco, Orchestra Jazira, and many others.
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The Hawley Collection of Violins. With a history of their makers and a brief review of the...
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The Hawley Collection of Violins. With a history of their makers and a brief review of the evolution and decline of the art of violin-making in Italy 1500-1800

by LYON & HEALY

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Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1904. A very good, if slightly shaken, copy, spine label worn, and with some wear at corners, a few short marginal tears and occasional light handling creases. Small folio (305 x 228 mm). Black-and-white portrait of Royal de Forest Hawley, and 36 mounted plates, of which most in color; printed tissue guards preserved. Original red cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. FIRST EDITION, number 1399 of 2000 copies. With a fine provenance: From the collection of David W. Young, who bought the "Goding" Amati that is described herein. Young inscribes the front flyleaf: "This rare book purchased from R. Wurlitzer in year 1961, at time I obtained the 'Goding' Amati violin of 1662 from Lyon & Healy. - signed - David W. Young at 18508 Clyde Ave. Homewood, Ill U.S.A." Another similar inscription appears on another flyleaf. The "Goding" Amati is described in the catalogue on p. 48, within the broader historical context of the… Read More
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Keyboard Instruments. Studies in Keyboard Organology

Keyboard Instruments. Studies in Keyboard Organology

by RIPIN, Edwin M.

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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1971. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine with light fading and a few small losses at the ends. 8vo. 84 pages. 62 black-and-white plates. Cloth; pictorial dust jacket.
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Manuskripte Briefe Dokumente von Scarlatti bis Stravinsky. Katalog der Musikautographen-Sammlung...

Manuskripte Briefe Dokumente von Scarlatti bis Stravinsky. Katalog der Musikautographen-Sammlung Louis Koch

by [KOCH COLLECTION] Dr. Georg KINSKY

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Stuttgart: Hoffmannsche Buchdruckerei Felix Kraus, 1953. 4to. xxii, 361 pp. In German. Portrait frontispiece, 21 facsimile plates of musical manuscripts, some folding. Original parchment-backed boards, lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges gilt. A near-fine copy, rear hinge tender. FIRST EDITION. The extensive catalogue of the important collection of musical manuscripts, letters, and documents formed by Louis Koch.
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Mercedes Sosa New York 1983. Cancionero

Mercedes Sosa New York 1983. Cancionero

by SOSA, Mercedes

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New York: Washington Irving Auditorium, 1983. Wrappers toned. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 20 pages, mimeographed. Stapled in wrappers. First edition.
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Music by Philip Glass
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Music by Philip Glass

by GLASS, Philip; Robert T. JONES, editor

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New York: Harper & Row, 1987. 8vo. xviii, 222 pp. Profusely illustrated. Original quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in a fresh and bright jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED on the half-title: "For Bob with thanks Philip." A review copy, with the publisher's slip and errata slip laid in. Includes a catalogue of the composer's compositions since 1965, a discography, and a detailed index. Glass has made New York his home since 1967, the year he heard Steve Reich's 'Piano Phase' and made his important shift in style into a radical "constant vocabulary."
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New York City Opera Sings

by McKENNA, Harold, J., editor

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New York: Richards Rosen Press, 1981. 4to. 404 pp. Black-and-white photographic illustrations. Original cloth; dust jacket. Jacket a bit soiled and with tears and small losses at spine. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY BEVERLY SILLS on the front free endpaper: "Best wishes, Beverly Sills."
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Old Fogy. His Musical Opinions and Grotesques. With an Introduction and Edited by ... Huneker

Old Fogy. His Musical Opinions and Grotesques. With an Introduction and Edited by ... Huneker

by HUNEKER, James Gibbons

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Philadelphia: Theodore Presser, 1913. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Boards a trifle faded, small bump at front bottom edge; jacket a little soiled and frayed. Small 8vo. Original pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first binding with figured endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by Huneker on the dedication page: "This book of musical jollies is for the Weils - Ottilie and Otto - with the regards of their old friend James Huneker, May 1914, New York." Otto Weil was involved as a director and manager in the music scene in New York, for several years being with the business staff of the Metropolitan Opera Company. "Old Fogy" - the music critic Huneker himself - writes on Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Liszt, et al. Unusual in the dust jacket. Merle Johnson, p. 274. (BA).
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Reminiscences of Morris Steinert
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Reminiscences of Morris Steinert

by STEINERT, Morris

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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. A bright, sharp copy with extremities just touched. 8vo. 267 pages. Frontispiece portrait of the author, photographic plates. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered and decorated. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Miss Carolyn Quintin with the my [sic] compliments. M. Steinert. New Haven, Conn, Nov 14, 1903." An autobiographical memoir by one of New Haven's most famous figures in music. The Bavarian-born Steinert was a music merchant and an instrumentalist, who played piano, organ, flute, cello, and violin, and performed throughout Europe in his early years. After immigrating to the United States, he toured the South playing his violincello and singing as a minstrel. Abandoning this in 1865, he founded his eponymous M. Steinert & Sons in New Haven, Connecticut, which continues selling Steinway pianos and other fine musical instruments to this day. Later in life, Steinert created a collection of musical… Read More
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Serious Music, and All That Jazz: An Adventure in Music Criticism

Serious Music, and All That Jazz: An Adventure in Music Criticism

by PLEASANTS; Henry

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New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Hardcover. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket that is lightly toned and has a few small areas of wear. 8.5 x 6 inches. 256 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Inscribed for Mark Stewart by Henry Pleasants on front free endpaper. With advance slip laid in.
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Songs from Irving Berlin's Alexander Ragtime Band [cover title]
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Songs from Irving Berlin's Alexander Ragtime Band [cover title]

by BERLIN, Irving

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[New York]: [Irving Berlin, Inc.], 1938. Covers detached, spine partly perished, covers dry [really an autograph item needing rebinding]. 4to (11 3/4 x 9 inches; 29.7 x 23 cm). 180 pages. Publisher's flexible faux leather. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the composer on the front free endpaper: "To Irving Lesser(?) With best wishes and pleasant memories of "Alexander's Ragtime band" / Irving Berlin." A scarce promotional songbook issued by Twentieth Century-Fox in connection with their successful 1938 musical film "Alexander's Ragtime Band." The songbook contains piano transcriptions of three new songs written for the film-including "Now It Can Be Told," "My Walking Stick," and "Marching Along with Time" - as well as 25 other songs written by Berlin. The recipient was possibly Irving Lesser (d. 1964), a movie producer and film distributor.
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Virgil Thomson. His Life and Music
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Virgil Thomson. His Life and Music

by HOOVER, Kathleen and John CAGE

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New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Tall 8vo. 288pp. Black-and-white illustrations. Original cloth; pictorial jacket. A very good copy in slightly worn jacket that has several chips and closed tears at top, the rear panel somewhat toned. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED by Thomson in 1986 on a separate sheet pasted to the front free endpaper: "For Max Alder cordially Virgil Thomson, 1986." Beneath Thomson's sheet is the 1964 ownership inscription of Theodore and Lillian McClintock.
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