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The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 1889-1948

By: N/A

Price: £6.00

Seller ID: 12479

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

71pp, frontis portrait of Queen Mary, 27 plates. Previous owner's initials on cover.
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The Dolmetsch Years: a Festival to Celebrate the Life and Work of the Pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch, on the 50th Anniversary of His Death, and the First Hundred Years of the Early Music Renaissance

By: N/A

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Dolmetsch Foundation & David Stone Associates:

Seller ID: 12510

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A folder of publicity material for the festival. Containing: publicity brochure, 24 x 11.5", illustrated, colour and b/w; festival schedule and programme; single sheet details of concert on 10th May, 1990 "An Evening with Arnold Dolmetsch" 2pp article by Ann Mann - "The Life and Work of Arnold Dolmetsch 1858-1940" and "Arnold Dolmetsch - An Acorn from which Oaks Have Grown" + a programme of Rishworth Hall concert, May 1922. Two photographs, 'Arnold Dolmetsch playing the viol' & 'Arnold Dolmetsch with his staff at the Gaveau Facory'.
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The Golden Age of Italian Music

By: 0'Brien, Grace

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Jarrold & Sons Ltd: N.D.

Seller ID: 11308

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

191pp, 15 plates, map on endpapers.
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The Age of Humanism 1540-1630, Vol IV

By: Abraham, Gerald

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 12297

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

xxv, 978pp, plates, music examples. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. ; The New Oxford History of Music
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The Fugue Vol 1 from the Beginnings to Johann Sebastian Bach

By: Adrio, Adam (general editor K.G.Fellerer)

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Koln, Arno Volk Verlag: 1961

Seller ID: 5270

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

80pp. Facsimiles. ; Anthology of Music: a Collection of Complete Musical Examples Illustrating the History of Music.
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Unsung. A History of Women in American Music

By: Ammer, Christine

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Portland, OR, Amadeus Press: 2001

Seller ID: 6535

ISBN: 1574670581

Binding: Hardcover; Red Cloth/Gilt Titles

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

382pp. Surveys 200 years of women active in American music. From the earliest organists to contemporary innovators in jazz, biographical sketches show the influences of and influences on hundreds of musicians, and the important strides women musicians have made in the last 20 years.
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The Pursuit of High Culture. John Ella and Chamber Music in Victorian London

By: Bashford, Christina

Price: £38.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, Boydell Press: 2007

Seller ID: 11137

ISBN: 1843832984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

410pp, illustrations. Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. This investigation of the consumption of high musical culture among leisured society in Victorian London focuses on the activities of the concert manager John Ella and his Musical Union (1845-81) , an eminent, long-lived institution for chamber music, much feted across Europe in its day. A biography of Ella is combined with a social- economic history of the Musical Union, its players, repertoire and audiences, set against the gradually shifting contexts for London concerts, chamber music and cultural lif...
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Charles Hall - A Musical Life

By: Beale, Robert

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing: 2007

Seller ID: 12348

ISBN: 0754661377

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

300pp, 6 b&w illustrations. ; Music in Nineteenth Century Britain
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Studies in Music History Presented to H. C. Robbins Landon on His Seventieth Birthday

By: Biba, Otto and Jones, David Wyn (Ed)

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Thames and Hudson: 1996

Seller ID: 11215

ISBN: 0500016968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

Heavy book, extra postage will be requested for delivery outside UK. 272pp, tipped in frontis portrait, plates, 27 music examples. The studies in English include a recently rediscovered manuscript copy of a Domenico Scarlatti opera, Haydn's early Pastorellas, works by Mozart marketed in London by Longman and Broderip, Haydn's contract with his London publisher and an appreciation of H. C. Robbins as founder of the Haydn Society. The studies in German include information about the Haydn brothers and Mozart, freemasonry in Vienna under Emperor Leopold II, the interpretation of music in the 18th ...
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Jewish Music and Modernity

By: Bohlman, Philip V.

Price: £27.50

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 2008

Seller ID: 10977

ISBN: 0195178327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in Fine dust jacket

314pp, 35 halftones, 5 music examples. New copy. ; AMS Studies in Music
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A History of Music At Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin

By: Boydell, Barra

Price: £45.00

Publisher: Boydell Press: 2004

Seller ID: 11742

ISBN: 1843830442

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New in New dust jacket

236pp, illustrations, music examples, lists of organists & assistant organists, Masters of the Boys/Music Masters/Choir Masters
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Das Deutsche Lied: Geistlich Und Weltlich Bis Zum 18 Jahrhundert

By: Breslauer, Martin

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Georg Olms Verlag: 1966

Seller ID: 5122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

301pp, frontis, illustrations. A reprint of the 1908 edition. Previous owners inscription.
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Shakespearean Music in the Plays and Early Operas

By: Bridge, Sir Frederick

Price: £15.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent: 1923

Seller ID: 5114

Binding: Hardcover; Blue Cloth

xiii, 93pp, frontis, 16 illustrations, musical appendix. ex library rebound front endpaper removed; some slight wear to boards. good clean copy.
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History of the Pianoforte (1879)

By: Brinsmead, Edgar

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Frits Knuf: 1986

Seller ID: 7562

ISBN: 9060275004

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

201pp, illustrations. A mid-19th century overview of the development of the piano and earlier forms of keyboard instruments from the Ancients until the 1870s. Examines the forerunners of the piano, including the clavicytherium, virginals, spinet and harpsichord, and the fundamental acoustic properties they have in common, to the invention and development of the modern instrument and the work of significant European and British makers. Facsimile reprint.
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Festival in the North the Story of the Edinburgh Festival

By: Bruce, George

Price: £5.00

Publisher: Robert Hale: 1975

Seller ID: 3751

ISBN: 070915061X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

253pp, 24 plates. Previous owners signature.
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Die Musik Des Rokokos Und Der Klassik

By: Bucken Ernst:

Price: £8.00

Publisher: New York, Musurgia Publishers: 1927

Seller ID: 286

Binding: Hardcover; Red Cloth Boards

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

248pp, many illustrations, music examples. Neat signature of previous owner. In German. Heavy book, extra postage may be requested for delivery outside UK. ; Handbuch Der Musikwissenschaft
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Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music

By: Bukofzer, Manfred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: J. M. Dent: 1951

Seller ID: 5900

Binding: Hardcover; Blue Cloth, Gilt Titles

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

324pp, 4 plates, music examples. Dust jacket slightly chipped at top of spine in removable protective cover.
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A Register of Royal and Baronial Domestic Minstrels 1272-1327

By: Bullock-Davies, Constance

Price: £6.00

Publisher: Boydell Press: 1986

Seller ID: 7235

ISBN: 085115431X

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

227pp
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A History of English Cathedral Music 1549 - 1889. (2 Volumes)

By: Bumpus, John S.

Price: £50.00

Publisher: T. Werner Laurie Ltd.: N.D.

Seller ID: 11315

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

No Date (circa 1908) 580pp, illustrations.
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The Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society: A History

By: Calder, James Moray

Price: £10.00

Publisher: East Linton, Scotland, Tuckwell Press: 2001

Seller ID: 8460

ISBN: 1862321442

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

129pp, 20 plates. The Edinburgh Highland Reel and Strathspey Society was formed in 1881, 'for the practice or promotion of Scottish National Music, more especially Reel and Strathspey playing in the old Highland fashion'.
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