Search Results: Music from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, 360 pp, 28 ff b&w photo plates. Rear corners lightly bumped. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG+/No dj. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on half-title. Red cloth, gilt titles on spine & facsimile signature on front board, 360 pp, 28 ff b&w photo plates. Spine ends slightly rumpled, scattered pencil underlining (generally performers' names). DJ rubbed & chipped at extremities, head of spine rather tattered; in Brodart archival cover. As other booksellers have noted, the signature is an illegible scrawl, but it is a fair match to the facsimile illegible scrawl on the front board. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Near Fine/VG. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Brunswick, ME: American Musicological Society, Inc., 2011 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Perfect-bound in yellow card covers, black titles, lix, 100 pp. Top corner bent, 1 cm repaired tear to head of front joint, else fine. In addition to the alphabetical listing of individual members and geographically classified list of institutional members, contains sections on organization, calendar of annual meetings, fellowship guidelines, award guidelines, grant guidelines, list of AMS publications, by-laws, guidelines for ethical conduct, and guidelines for fair use of copyrighted material. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Wraps. G+/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Metuchen, NJ & London: The Scarecrow Press, 1982 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full maroon cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xxviii, 330 pp. Blind impression in front board, otherwise fine. Contents: chronological discography, unissued sessions; compilation of issued discs; title list with composers & lyricists; musician index; the imitatums; films; published music; piano rolls. Appendices: guide to abbreviations; matrix cross reference list; other discographies examined; quick dating guide. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 22½ X 14½ cm.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1974 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full mustard cloth & endpapers, copper & black titles on spine, xix, 249 pp, footnotes, bibliography, index. Bottom corner of front board bumped, previous owner's note in pencil on ffep. DJ rubbed at extremities; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: what is ragtime?; the impact of ragtime; classic ragtime; ragtime's second line: lesser luminaries; ragtime songs & bands; ragtime style & performance. Appendices: the image on the cover; ragtime versus jazz piano styles; Scott Joplin's Treemonisha; bibliography of ragtime. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. . VG/Near Fine. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1972 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Quarter black cloth, blue cloth-covered boards, foil titles on spine, xli, 1230 pp, bibliography, index. Spine ends just beginning to fray at joints, rear paste-down torn at gutter, otherwise very good & still feels solid. Includes a brief biography of Ludwig van Beethoven with critical assessments of all of his musical compositions by a variety of authors. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . G+/No dj. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: Random House, 1937 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth, gilt-on-black titles on spine, b & w photo frontis., x, 11-484 pp, index. Rubbed, browning, some foxing. This narrative is based on the intimate correspondence between Tchaikowski and Nadejda von Meck. The correspondence was lost to the von Meck family in the Russian Revolution, but most of it was published by the Soviet government in 1935. Co-author Barbara von Meck was the widow of Nadejda's grandson. She made literal translations of the letters into English, and also contributed reminiscences and personal knowledge, to which Bowen applied her considerable talent to creating a connected and highly readable narrative. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Good/No dj. 22 X 15½ cm.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1989 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mauve boards, green cloth spine with gold foil titles, xii, 404 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, select discography, index. DJ edges browning & slightly worn, tiny hole in front joint, else fine; in Brodart archival cover. Primarily a biography of Goodman and an analysis of his music, but with background chapters on forms of jazz from the 1920s through 1950s. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/Near Fine. 24 X 16 cm.

New York, London & Toronto: The Macmillan Company/Collier Macmillan Limited, 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full magenta cloth, gilt-on-blue titles on spine, gilt decorations (musical instruments) on front board & spine, top edge dyed grey, xvi, 537 pp, b & w photos in text, index. Sticker scar on ffep & small spot on fore-edge. DJ has two edge tears under 2 cm; in Brodart archival cover. A foreword by Frank Sinatra and a general discussion of the big bands is followed by a few pages on each of 72 major bands from Charlie Barnet to Paul Whiteman and brief mentions of hundreds more. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. 6th ptg. . VG+/VG. 24 X 17½ cm.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1966 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Actual date of printing is unknown, but some years after 1966 copyright date. Full black cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, xvii, footnotes, bibliography, index. According to the preface, Chamber Music is "an orderly account of its evolution to the point where the contemporary concert repertoire begins and a survey of the works which form the bulk of that repertoire." The second edition is expanded in most respects, but omits the list of recordings. Shipping weight 3 lbs.. 2nd ed, 5th ptg. . Fine/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: Harper & Row, 1978 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full black cloth, gilt titles on spine, xiii, 289 pp, chronological table, blbiography, index. DJ has slight edge wear; in Brodart archival cover. Chopin's life was divided into two distinct phases. He grew up in Warsaw, then emigrated to Paris in 1831. To write a full life of Chopin, it was necessary for Marek to collaborate with Maria Gordon-Smith, born Maria Krystyna Broniewska, herself a formidable figure in the postwar Warsaw musical scene but resident in America at the time of writing. Together they have produced a life of the Polish/French composer that slights neither phase of it. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG+. 24 X 16½ cm.

New York: The Free Press, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Sky-blue boards, foil & red titles on dark blue cloth spine, xv, 494 pp, footnotes, bibliography, index. Top corners bumped, small surface chips to paper covering boards at top corners & bottom edge, owner's name on fpd. DJ rubbed at extremities, spine sunned; in Brodart archival cover. History of European choral church music, mostly in the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, and Anglican churches. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 12 oz.). . VG/VG+. 24 X 16 cm.

Los Altos, CA: Geron-X, Inc., 1970 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author recto ffep. Red cloth, foil titles on spine, ix, 150 pp, bibliography. DJ spine slightly faded, spine ends and corners worn & slightly chipped; in Brodart archival cover. Edwards brings her many years of experience as a piano teacher and as chairman of the Piano Pedagogy and Teachers' Training Department at the Cleveland Institute of Music to this book on teaching music students of all ages. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . Fine/VG+. 21½ X 14½ cm.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Review Copy. Grey & brown cloth, musical staff pattern on front board, gilt-on-black titles on spine, xiv, 342 pp, bibliography, index. Front board slightly sunned at edges, owner's name on fpd. DJ lightly rubbed with a 1 cm tear near head of rear joint; in Brodart archival cover. Essays by Lukas Foss, Howard Hanson, Ernst Krenek, Peter Mennin, Vincent Persichetti, Bernard Rogers, Leo Sowerby, Peter Racine Fricker, Anthony Milner, Edmund Rubbra, Michael Tippett, Conrad Beck, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Luigi Dallapiccola, Jean Françaix, Jean Langlais, Frank Martin, Hermann Reutter. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 8 oz.). . Near Fine/VG+. 23½ X 16 cm.

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1965 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Translated from the German by Humphrey Searle. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xiv, 186 pp, footnotes, index. Owner's name on fpd, a few tiny spots on edges. DJ extremities sunned and lightly worn, tape stains (apparently from an adjacent book) on front panel, Dover Publications sticker on front flap; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "the twelve-note method of composition is described, with numerous examples, by a former pupil and teaching assistant of Schoenberg, who commenced this work in collaboration with the composer himself, a partnership broken only by the latter's death. The book contains many of Schoenberg's utterances and letters to Rufer." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd Ed. . Near Fine/VG. 22½ X 14½ cm.

New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 1944 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Green cloth, titles in gold in on front board & spine, vii, 125 pp. Titles somewhat dull, slight rubbing to extremities, owner's name on fpd. DJ, which is about a quarter inch taller than the book, is chipped & torn along edges (esp. top), no loss of text, paper browning,; in Brodart archival cover. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Revised Ed. . VG+/VG-. 23 X 15 cm.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Both volumes full green cloth with gilt titles. Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique (by McHose only): 2nd ptg, xvi, 433, [1] pp; very good with moderate edge-wear, titles on spine dull but on front board bright. Analysis of counterpoint & harmony in 18th-century music, with special attention to Johann Sebastian Bach. Keyboard & Dictation: published 1949, xii, 169 pp; good, corners bumped & worn through, pencil scribbles on front endpapers but internally clean. Keyboard drills to accompany McHose's Contrapuntal Harmonic Technique. These drills are intended to give the student practice in the 17th & 18th century style of playing, especially of the thorough (or figured) bass. Each exercise is accompanied by a brief explanation of the associated music theory. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Varying/No dj. 26 X 18½ cm.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1969 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Mustard cloth, black titles on spine, xii, 372 pp, numerous line drawings, glossary, index. Bottom corners and spine ends a bit rubbed. 128 songs, with background information, melody, and in many cases variant texts. This first edition is a crisp, dark impression on attractive cream-colored paper. Shipping weight 4 lbs.. First Edition. . VG+/No dj. Illus. by J. K. Ralston. 28½ X 22 cm.

New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1961 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. "Completely revised third edition containing new chapters on the foundation, flute, string, reed, percussion stops, and spinet organ facts." Red pebble-grained cloth, foil titles on front board & spine, vii, 151 pp, 9 figures. Bottom corners bumped, spine ends rumpled, date on front paste-down, gift note taped to blank page iv, generally clean & bright. This book combines a brief description of how the Hammond organ works with a translation of traditional named pipe-organ stops into positions of the Hammond's drawbars, each of which controls the volume of either the fundamental tone or one of the harmonics. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 3rd Ed. . VG+/No dj. 25½ X 17 cm.

New York: Associated Music Publishers, Inc., 1946 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Maroon cloth, gilt titles on spine, xiii, 237 pp. Boards sunned near top edge, titles rubbed, owner's name on fpd. DJ top edge chipped, extremities browning; in Brodart archival cover. According to the DJ, "This book offers a complete course in sight-reading, ear-training and notation, from the very beginnings to the most advanced stages." Shipping weight 2 lbs.. . VG/VG. 24 X 16 cm.