Search Results: Musicology from Veery Books

Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962 xiv, 496 pp. [Including a selection from the works of Dan Emmett and others. With illustrations, including portraits and musical illustrations, and with a bibliography.] Small chips and tears to the edges, sunning to the dust jacket, book very good or better. Inscribed to Saul Novack, musicologist, by the author. From the jacket copy--''The blackface theater that flourished in nineteenth-century America had roots had roots extending across the Atlantic to the England of the late seventeenth century, when writers, poets, dramatists, and musicians were composing a literature of sympathy and protest against the perversity of the slave trade. In America the initial and tentative stages of Negro impersonation and song came between 1815 and 1830 with the creation of two 'Negro stage characters'--one, the southern plantation hand, the other, the ludicrous black replica of the white dandy of Main Street. // By the late thirties Daniel Decatur… Read More

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1993 The Early Career of Guillaume Du Fay--Alejandro Enrique Planchart; On the Origins of the Sonate auf Concertenart--Jeanne R. Swack; Nadia Boulanger and the Salon of the Princesse de Polignac--Jeanice Brooks.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1994 The Divine Truth of Scripture: Chant in the Roman de Fauvel--Susan Rankin; Newly Identified Manuscripts of Operas and Related Works from Mannheim--Paul Corneilson and Eugene K. Wolf; Mein Weg geht jetzt voruber'': The Vocal Origins of Webern's Twelve-Tone Compositions--Anne C. Shreffler.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1992 The Eighth-Century Frankish-Roman Communion Cycle--James McKinnon; The Counterpoint of Allusion in Fifteenth-Century Masses--Christopher A. Reynolds; Claudio Monteverdi's Ordine Novo, Bello et Gustevole: The Canzonetta as Dramatic Model and Formal Archetype--Massimo Ossi; A Theoretical Work of Late Seventeenth-Century Muscovy: Nikolai Diletskii's Grammatika and the Earliest Circle of Fifths--Claudia R. Jensen.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1994 Dufay's Nuper Rosarum Flores, King Solomon's Temple, and the Veneration of the Virgin--Craig Wright; Themes of Exile in Willaert's Musica Nova--Michele Fromson; The Intellectual Origins of Musical Canon in Eighteenth-Century England--William Weber.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1991 The Hapsburg Court of Ferdinand II and the Messa, Magnificat et Jubilate Deo a Sette Chori Concertati con le Trombe (1621) of Giovanni Valentini--Steven Sauders; Aprroaching the Sketches for Beethoven's ''Hammerklavier'' Sonata--Nicholas Marston; Music and Class Structure in Antebellum Boston--Michael Broyles.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1991 In Praise of Spurious Saints: The Missa Floruit Egregiis by Pipelare and La Rue--M. Jennifer Bloxam; Ruth Crawford's ''Spiritual Concept'': The Sound-Ideals of an Early American Modernist--Judith Tick; Bartok's Octatonic Strategies: A Motivic Approach--Richard Cohn; Crossing Over with Ruben Blades--Don Michael Randel. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1993 The Unknown Florestan: The 1805 Version of ''In des Lebens Fruhlingstagen''--Michael C. Tusa; A Musical Time Capsule from Java--Benjamin Brinner; Alban Berg and Peter Altenberg: Intimate Art and the Aesthetics of Life--David P. Schroeder.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1988 On the Nature of Transmission and Change in Trope Repertories--Alejandro Enrique Planchart; The Stemma of the Aquitanian Versaria--James Grier; Thematic Form and the Genesis of Schoenberg's D-Minor Quartet, Opus 7--Walter Frisch; New Approaches to the Linear Analysis of Music--Allen Forte.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1992 The Marriage of Edward III and the Transmission of French Motets to England--Andrew Wathey; Beethoven's ''Mozart'' Quartet--Jeremy Yudkin; ''Commerce and Poetry Hand in Hand''" Music in American Department Stores, 1800-1930--Linda L. Tyler.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia: American Musicological Society, 1995 Sexual Discourse in the Parisian Chanson: A Libidinous Aviary--Kate van Orden; Revisiting Fletcher Henderson's ''Copenhagen''--Jeffrey McGee; Of Modell-Typen and Reihenformen: Berg, Schoenberg, F. H. Klein, and the Concept of Row Derivation--Arved Ashby.. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.