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The Jazz Age Popular Music In the 1920's
by Arnold Shaw
F. Scott Fitzgerald named it, Louis Armstrong launched it, Paul Whiteman and Fletcher Henderson orchestrated it, and now Arnold Shaw chronicles this fabulous era in his marvelously engrossing book, appropriately called The Jazz Age. Enriching his account with lively anecdotes and insidestories, he describes the astonishing outpouring of significant musical innovations that emerged during the "Roaring Twenties"--including blues, jazz, band music, torch ballads, operettas, and musicals--and sets them...
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American Music Books & Ephemera
Marlboro Music: Programs 1951-1984
by Marlboro Music School and Festival
Marlboro, Vermont: Marlboro Music School and Festival, 1984. 703 pp. Red cloth, tall, narrow volume with embossed gold lettering on front board and spine. Some light soiling, and scratches on rear that are not really noticeable. Preface; TC; Introduction; The Programs, 1951-1984; Index of works performed; Index of performing artists; Marlboro participants; Marlboro recordings. An exhaustively fascinating document. . Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall: square.
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£68.81
Quartet No. 6 in C Major, Op. 71
by Smith, David Stanley
New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; Carl Fischer , 1937. 47 pp. Score. Society for the Publication of American Music. (S.P.A.M. 40) Eighteenth Season 1936-37; Published for the Society by Carl Fischer, New York, copyright 1937. Some tanning to extremities and in gutter. VG. List of the societies publications on back of wraps. Dedicated to Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. Smith studied at Yale with Horatio Parker at the same time as Charles Ives and after studying with Ludwig Thuile and...
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£23.55
What They Heard: Music in America, 1852-1881. From the Pages of "Dwight's Journal of Music."
by Sablosky, Irving
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1986. First edition. Cloth. Ex-lib copy with the usual markings, otherwise very good+ crisp, clean, and bright in a very good+ dust jacket.. Frontis, x, 317 pp. Illus. 8vo. Dwight's Journal of Music was the first significant American music journal.
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£31.17
Third String Quartet
by Lockwood, Norman
New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; G. Schirmer Quarto. Score. 36.pp.(S.P.A.M. 55) Twenty-Seventh Season 1945-46. Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, copyright 1948. Dedicated to the Walden String Quartet.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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£20.31
Cancionero Popular Americano: 75 Canciones de las Republicas Americanas
Washington, D.C.: Union Panamericana, 1950. 127 pp. 75 songs are presented in simple piano arrangements with lyrics between staves. Adios, florecita blanca, Mi carino, Adelita, Mi dicha lejana, E1Aguinaldo, Mi pollera , Amenca, The Beautiful, Naci en la cumbre, Bainyin, Old Folks at Home, Angelique, o!, Pajarillo barranqueno, El arroyo que murmura, EI palito, Ay ay ay!, La paloma, Ay! Mama Ines!, La pampa y la puna, Ay tituy, Pobre corazon, Caminito, La pastora, Caminito de tu casa, La perica, Cancion...
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£22.67
The Patron
by The National Grange
151 Songs and tunes of The Grange.This songbook's exterior has worn areas at the bottom and top of the spine and on all four corners and a small scuff mark on the back cover. The interior, however, has no visible extraneous markings; is well preserved, and has good and tight bindings.This book will be carefully wrapped and boxed up and then shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes with our utmost appreciation for your order.
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£11.33
Young People's Illustrated History of Music with Biographies of Famous Musicians
by James C. Macy
135 Pages.This is a 130+-year-old book on music that contains the biographies of some famous musicians and composers. The book comes in brown boards with gold lettering on the front cover. The book's exterior has worn areas on all four corners and at the bottom and top of the spine. (the top of the spine also has a 3/4" tear in it on the left side) and a small one on the center of the front cover. On the rear cover, there are some scuffing marks and a white (looks like paint) stain. The guilted gold edge...
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£12.14
John Wayne, America, Why I Love Her
by Billy Liebert and John Mitchum
144 Pages. First edition by the full number line. The dust jacket is Not price-clipped.This very patriotic and inspirational book about our United States comes in a very good dust jacket with small (repaired) tears on the top and bottom edges, the top two corners with small worn areas on them, and wearing marks on the front and rear covers. The interior book, however, is in Fine to Like-New condition with no visible extraneous markings, detriments, or distractions throughout it, and thus all of its...
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£39.67
American War Ballads and Lyrics, Vol I
by George Clay Eggleston
226 Pages.This wonderful book of historical battle song lyrics' exterior has worn areas on all four corners, on the top and bottom edges, at the top and bottom of the spine (with a small tear at the top of the spine), and along the right edge of the front cover and the left edge of the rear cover. The gold designs on the front and back covers and the title printing on the spine are though all in very good and well-preserved condition. The front cover, however, has detached itself from the spine. The...
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£20.24
String Quartet No. 2
by Koutzen, Boris
New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; G. Schirmer Quarto. Score. 35 pp. (S.P.A.M. 52) Twenty-Fifth Season 1943-44. Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, copyright 1945. G, a bump to top with attendant creases. Discoloration at extremities. Koutzen (1901-1966) was born in Russia and studied composition with Gliere. Arriving in the United States in 1923, he became a violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stokowski and taught at the Philadelphia Conservatory and at Vassar.....
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£20.31
Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music (Music in American Life)
by Dr. Ralph STANLEY [signed], John Wright
IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Ralph Edmund Stanley (1927 - 2016), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. Stanley began playing music in 1946, originally with his brother Carter as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys. He was part of the first generation of bluegrass musicians and was inducted into both the...
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£121.42
Royal Collection of Piano Music
160 Pages.This softcover collection of piano music's exterior has worn areas on both top and bottom edges and on all corners. The front and rear cover have worn areas and discolorations all due to age and use, as well as a former owner's name on the front cover. The interior has begun to pull away from its cover bindings but otherwise is in good condition and all music is in totally readable condition.This book will be shipped right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes with our utmost...
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£60.71
Franz Schubert Complete Works Breitkopf & Hartel Critical Edition of 1884-1897 Volume 5
by Edited by Julius Epstein
This large, page unnumbered volume of Schubert's compositions comes without a dust jacket in blue/grey boards with silver lettering on the spine. The exterior of the volume has worn areas on all four corners, at the top and bottom and along the right and left verticle edges of the spine, and some wearing marks on the front and rear covers. The interior book has a former owner's name on the top of the front fly page and then the remnants of erased pencil marks in the last section and some red pencil...
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£47.76
Rolling Stone Greatest 500 Songs of All Time (Special Collector's Edition)
by Rolling Stone
122 Pages. Stated: Special Collector's Edition. Not price clipped or crossed out. This is an extensive compilation of what the Rolling Stone Magazine considered to be the top 500 songs of all time. It is filled with terrific photography of many of the bands and singers as well as a description of each song. The exterior of this publication has worn areas along both verticle edges of the spine, liightly worn corners and light wearing along all of its edges. The interior has the remains of a crease on the...
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£66.38
Th Nearest Faraway Place : Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the Southern California Experience
by White, Timothy
Canada: Henry Holt, 1996. Yellowing to pages. Bumping and wear to cover edges and corners.. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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£13.23
the Singin' Gatherin'
by Jean Thomas & Joseph A. Leeder
113 pages.The book has a protective plastic cover on it. Under the plastic, there is some staining on the spine but otherwise, the cover is in very good condition. Inside the front cover is a former owner's name and the first page of the Forward is missing, outside of that there are no other visible markings within the book and it is in Very Good condition.This book will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and shipped right away from here in New Jersey and comes with our enormous gratitude for your...
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£27.52
First Year Music: Rote Songs for Kindergarten and First year
by Hollis Dann
First edition! Light brownish gray linen covered boards with dark brown lettering. Original owner's name on first and second interior pages with date 1922. No other writing in book. One bend bottom right front board cover. Tight binding. Very lightly used for over 100 years old! It appears to be a teacher's edition. There is a Preface and Introduction prior to Section 1 and then a Topical Index of Songs and an Index of First Lines at back of book. There are at least 108 songs included in the index....
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£7.00
String Quartet No. III
by Wagenaar, Bernard (1894-1971)
New York: Society for the Publication of American Music; G. Schirmer Quarto. Score. 22 pp. (S.P.A.M. 44) Twenty-First Season 1939-40. Published for the Society by G. Schirmer, copyright 1940. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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£20.31
British Ballads from Maine
by Phillips Barry, Fannie H. Eckstorm, Mary Winslow Smythe
535 pages.The book's dust jacket is encased in a protective plastic case to preserve and protect it. The dust jacket inside of the casing shows wearing marks on the top edge and all corners. The inside book though shows no visible markings at all and is thus in a very well preserved condition with only a little yellowing of the pages due to age.It is a very though examination of the ballads and their history in the US northeast.that were brought over from England.This book will be carefully wrapped up...
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£36.40
Beginning Worship Guitar
by Hoffman, Sandy
Spiral-bound book in very good condition. No writing and clean pages. Bend at top corner first inside page which is shown in scans. Great worship songs for the beginner guitar player!
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£3.04
Hit Hard: A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top
by Joey Kramer
239 pages. Inscribed and signed by the author inside the front cover. First edition by the full number line.
This very carefully preserved book has slight wearing along the cover's edges and corners but otherwise is in Near Fine condition and has no internal markings other than the inscription by the author that are visible. The book is full of great pictures of the author both on stage with Aerosmith and off stage.
If you order this book from us, we will wrap it carefully and ship it to you in a new... Read more about this item
This very carefully preserved book has slight wearing along the cover's edges and corners but otherwise is in Near Fine condition and has no internal markings other than the inscription by the author that are visible. The book is full of great pictures of the author both on stage with Aerosmith and off stage.
If you order this book from us, we will wrap it carefully and ship it to you in a new... Read more about this item
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£40.48
Music and Imagination
by Aaron Copland
16 pp. Small octavo. VG/VG. Book is fine, but for a 1-inch stain/abrasion on the front board. DJ has two small tears repaired at top of spine and a tiny (1 mm) chip at bottom of back panel. All over, a very nice impression. Inscribed by Copland in 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island, to Millard Thomson, a composer and professor at Brown. Thomson's bookplate opposite inscription. The book preserves the six Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard University in May 1952 substantially as they were...
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£291.42
