Washington, D. C. War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, 1918. First Edition. Stapled Wrap. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 90pp. Handbook of lyrics and music for all the favorite patriotic songs---and more! Bound in tan paper wraps, with black title. Owner's name on outside and inside. More about Army Song Book, U.S
. 8" x 10" sepia photograph of Eddie Rosenwald who in 1939 began playing the Vega Electric Violin. The Boston listeners to the radio program enjoyed the sound and it soon became a popular instrument to add to sound recordings. Eddie Rosenwald influenced Scotty MacLean to use it in his... More about Eddie Rosenwal Photograph, Electric Violin
New York: Herschel Fenton. Quarto. 8 pages, double folded, not recorded in OCLC. Herschel Fenton was a violinist who was given a Strativarius in 1878 and went into the music business selling both instruments and publishing sheet music. Since this price list is undated (but numbered as No. 3), it... More about Herschel Fenton, Importer of Musical Instruments, Fine Old Italian, French, German and English...
Baltimore: Lyric Theatre, 1914. 8p. Program annoucning concert on December 16, 1914 with Mme. Schumann-Heink; Also The Incomparable Anna Pavlowa [note: although the correct Russian spelling should be transliterated Pavlova), most American publishers used the w instead of the v. No copies on OCLC, though there are two other theatre... More about Lyric Theatre, Season, 1914-1915 (Mmme. Schumann-Heink; Anna Pavlova
A marvelous photograph of the blues pianist and singer who popularized the hit "Merry Christmas, Baby". He composed and made a hit of "Drifting Blues" but after a decline in his career, Bonny Raitt made him her opening act and a whole new market discovered him. The photograph measuring 14"... More about Photograph) Charles Brown with Unidentified Friend
Ann Arbor, MI: Ann Arbor Chapter Amarican Guild of Organists, 1978. Ring Binding. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 96pp. Lavishly illustrated with organs in church, university, and homes in Ann Arbor. Includes photographs of interesting and prominent organists in the past 8 decades. Interior clean and tight, without... More about Pipe Organs of Ann Arbor
Seoul (2009): National Center for Korean Performing Arts. Octavo. 134 (5)pp. with CD in back pocket. The NCKTA has been the major institution to carry on the Korean traditional music and dance for more than one thousands years. The root of the NCKTA can be traced back to the Royal... More about Sanjo (Korean Musicology Series, 3
Budapest: Koeniglich Ungarische Universitaetsdruckerei, 1930. Good Copy Second Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Chefredakteur: Dr. Julius Vasarhelyi. Redaktion: Julius Fodor, Dr. Stephan von Gajary, Dr. Andreas von Spur, Dr. Karl von Marffy. Descriptions and biographies of Hungarian musicians, composers, artists. Photographic portraits of same. German text. Outer boards warped. More about Ungarn, Ein Land Der Musik, Ungarischer Kuenstleralmanach
Madrid: Ediciones Opponax - Ministerio De Cultura, 1996. Pictorial Cover. Limited. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 303 pp. Extensively photographed, excerpts from de Falla's letters, as well as those of family, friends. Lovely memorial issue of the magazine poesia. More about MANUEL DE FALLA: HIS LIFE AND WORKS
Hillsdale, New York: Pendragon Press, 2008. Buckram. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 134p. bibliography, index. The Nineteenth Century saw the development of new valved brass instruments with an accompanying controversy since purists hated these new sounds. Much was originated delegated to martial music and the hated saxophone which... More about Valved Brass; the History of Invention
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First English Translation. Octavo. 573p. index. appendices. translated by Alfred Clayton. The author who has studied and performed Bach's keyboard music for over 40 years has made an intensive study rooted in the sources (many heretofore neglected) and besides dealing with rhythm, tempo, articulation, and dynamics... More about Interpreting Bach at the Keyboard
Buffalo, New York: Mark Hubbell Printing Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo. No pagination. Illustrated. Printed for the Masters of Foxhunting Association of America. 32 unnumbered pages. William H. Barr who had been the Master of Foxhunting at the Lake Short Hunt Club at Derby, New York supervised the search for... More about Songs of the Fox Chace
London;(nd): G.H. Davidson. 24mo. Consisting of standard, popular and copyright songs, selected with the especial view of being used in domestic circles and private parties. 362pp. bound in full black polished calf, spine decorated in gilt, morocco spine label gilt but fading, marbled endpapers, a couple of spots to title..... More about DAVIDSON'S MODERN SONG BOOK or, Singer's Pocket Companion:
Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition. Large Octavo. 858p. index. Avins' work is the first extensive selection of the letters of Johannes Brahms ever to appear in English. Over 550 are included virtually all uncut. Up until this edition English readers have not been able to read this... More about Johannes Brahms: Life and Letters
Montreal: Church of the Messiah, 1935. 8 1/2 x 6" A very scarce programme with 4 pages of text. Inscribed by Brewer "to Jack Milborn with regards, G.M. Brewer. 17 T 35" Milborn was an eminent hero from Canada in World War I. Brewer was the great organist for 35... More about The Spanish Miracle; a Dramatic Triptych
Cambridge, Ma. Harvard University Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. 241pp., translated by Peter Palmer. The author guides us through the symphony movement by movement, examining musical ideas in all their compositional facets and placing them in the context of major trends in the intellectual history of late nineteenth-century Europe. He... More about Late Idyll, the Second Symphony of Johannes Brahms
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Signed by many of the Jazz greats of New Orleans, Preston Jackson who recorded with Louis Armstrong in 1931; the legendary clarinetist Ray Burke who recorded for over 56 years beginning with his 1927 recording at Columbia (which was never issued)... More about Bourbon Street Black: The New Orleans Black Jazzmen
Bloomington(1997): Indiana University Press. First Edition. Large Octavo. 637pp. Falstaff, Verdie's last opera, was given it s world premiere at Milan's fabled La Scala in 1893. Here the author collected, translated and annotated 665 letters, telegrams and reviews from the years 1889-1894 to trace the genesis of one Verdi's greatest... More about Verdi's Falstaff in Letters and Contemporary Reviews
Fair Lawn, N.J. Essential Books, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Octavo. This is one of the most important works by the music scholar and critic Calvocoressi pertaining to the life and works of composer Mussorgsky. 322pp., illustrated wit 118 music examples and 7 plates, bound in blue cloth, spine lettering gilt... More about Modest Mussorgsky His Life and Works
1955. Business card addressed to his friend artist Arthur Secunda with his note: "most grateful for your kind letter", with envelope in his hand Pau Casals, Prades, Pyrenees. January 15, 1955. This was the year he performed Brahms: Trios Nos. 1-3, with Yehudi Menuhin and Eugene Istomin. More about Business Card with Original Mailing Envelope, Signed, January 15, 1955
Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A. Univ of California Pr, 1991. Cloth/hard Cover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 449p. index. bibliography. With Tonal Allegory, the author responds to the serious need for an interpretative study that takes into account the theological content of Bach's texts with historical music theory. He..... More about Tonal Allegory in the Vocal Music of J.S. Bach
Ewing, New Jersey, Princeton Univ Pr, 1995. Octavo. 286p. index. This book has become scarce since it was produced in a small print run and essential for Opp. 127, 130, and 132. The analysis of what became five quartets were written in the same period as the Missa solemnis and... More about The "Galitzin" Quartets of Beethoven: Opp. 127, 132, 130
Inscribed to Lloyd (from the William W. Stanhope Collection). Though known in serious Jazz circles as a well known drummer who played for Cab Calloway, Louis Armstong and started a drum school with Gene Krupa, it was his Topsy (Parts One and Two) on a 45 that made its way... More about Inscribed Photograph 8" x 10"
Barcelona, Spain: Ediciones Paidós Iberica, S.A., 1997. Cloth. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 208p. The scarce Spanish first edition. red band around the book reads "edicin en Espanol"--a beautiful work on the Tango. More about Tango, El Baile, El Canto, La Historia
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1993. First Printing. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 450pp. A Dickensian tale of a musical life beginning at childhood. This copy has laid in publisher's invitation for this title. Also, this copy is signed and inscribed by the author on the half-title page. More about Body & Soul