Libri di musica

Sir Thomas Beecham. Fifty Years in the 'New York Times'.

GILMOUR, J.D. (EDITOR). · 1988 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: Thames Publishing, 1988. 0905210557. "This wide-ranging collection of news reports and music criticisms gives a vivid and colourful picture of the impact Beecham had on the country to which he was so strongly drawn - his 'second fatherland'". Pp.191. Grey cloth, dustwr...

Music in Village Churches. (Church Music Society Shorter Papers No.1).

A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH MUSIC SOCIETY. · 1950 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: Geoffrey Cumberlege/ Oxford University Press, 1950. 4th edition. Pp.14. Cream card covers. VG.

Schubert's Songs.

CAPELL, RICHARD. · 1928 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1928. 1st edition. Includes short prose summaries (nearly two hundred in all) of Schubert's principal song-texts. Pp.x/294, gift message to front free endpaper, toning to pages.Red cloth, dustwrapper worn with toning and small edge tears. G+/Good.

From Parry to Britten. British Music in Letters 1900-1945.

FOREMAN, LEWIS. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: B.T.Batsford Ltd, 1987. 0713455209. A Chronological Anthology Including Correspondence by Bantock, Britten, Delius, Elgar, Balfour, Gardiner, Heseltine, Moeran, Parry, Stanford and Vaughan Williams. With an Appendix Identifying Families and Copyright Owners of British ...

Experiencing Music. A Composer's Notes. (Musicians on Music No.5).

HOLMBOE, VAGN. · 1991 · Chilton Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,636)

London: Toccata Press, 1991. 0907689159. Translated, Edited and Introduced by Paul Rapoport, with a foreword by Robert Simpson. "Vagn Holmboe (born in 1909 in Denmark) has written over 300 compositions in nearly every musical genre..Ub Experiencing Music he discusses many issu...

Alkan. Volume One: The Enigma.

SMITH, RONALD. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Kahn & Averill, 1976. 0900707399. 1st edition. "Alkan, the lonely nineteenth century genius; virtuoso pianist and composer of the difficult, strangely haunting and disturbingly powerful piano music." Pp.120, frontispiece + 11 further illustrations, toning to pages. Bla...

Violin-Making, As It Was, And Is. Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional.

HERON-ALLEN, ED. · 1885 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,382)

London: Ward, Lock & Co.Limited, 1885. 2nd edition. Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin Makers and Players, Amateur and Professional. With Upwards of 200 Illustrations by the Author. Preceded by An Essa...

Sibelius. Volume I. 1865-1905. (Translated by Robert Layton).

TAWASTSTJERNA, ERIK. · 1976 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Faber and Faber, 1976. 0571088325. This volume is based on the Swedish original of the first two volumes of the Finnish edition, but embodies new material not in the 1968 Swedish edition. "Offers perceptive and searching stuudies of the music including a number of earl...

Piano Mastery. Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers.

BROWER, HARRIETTE. · 1915 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1915. 1st edition. Includes an Account of a von Bulow Class, Hints on Interpretation, by two American Teachers (Dr William Mason and William H Sherwood) and a Summary by the Author. Pp.xii/299, portrait photo frontispiece ( Ignace Jan Pade...

Voices by the Sea. The Story of the Aldeburgh Festival Choir.

WREN, WILFRED J. · 1981 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Lavenham: Terence Dalton Limited, 1981. 0861380037. 1st edition. "Tells of the choirs and conductors who have entertained with such success at the annual Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts from 1948.." 23cms x 17.5cms. Pp.x/134, black & white photographs and illustration...

Gabriel Faure. (1845-1924).

KOECHLIN, CHARLES. · 1945 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

ondon: Dennis Dobson, nd. (c.1945). Translated from the French by Leslie Orry. Contents includes: Biographical; Works; The Man and His Style; List of Works. Pp.viii/98, black & white portrait frontispiece. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine. G+.

Jour d'ete a la Montagne. Op.61. Pour Orchestre.

D'INDY, VINCENT. · 1906 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,273)

Paris: Durand & Co, 1906. Partition d'Orchestre. Orchestral score. Small print. Pp.111, some toning to pages. Pink wraps, spine and edges tanned, 3cm tear to base of spine. Good.

Deuxieme Symphonie. En Si Bemol par Vincent d'Indy op.57.

D'INDY, VINCENT. · 1904 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,327)

Paris: Durand & Co, 1904. Partition d'Orchestre. Orchestral score in small print. Pp.192, some toning to pages, bookseller's inkstamp (Madeleine Musique, Paris) to front free endpaper. Pink wraps, spine tanned. G+.

Man & His Music. Romanticism & the 20th Century (from 1800). (The Story of Musical Experience in the West series).

MELLERS, WILFRID. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Rockliff, 1957. 1st edition. "This volume shows how the conflict between individual passion and the principle of order implied by musical convention led eventually to a disintegration within traditional forms." Pp.x/236, black & white frontispiece + 8 further illustrat...

Man & His Music. The Sonata Principle. (From 1750). (The Story of Musical Experience in the West series).

MELLERS, WILFRID. · 1957 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Rockliff, 1957. 1st edition. "The theme of this volume is the birth and development of sonata form. This new and revolutionary form, created in the second half of the eighteenth century, was a regenerating force in the music of that period. But the principle of sonata,...

Essays on Music. An Anthology from "The Listener".

APRAHAMIAN, FELIX. (EDITOR). · 1967 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Cassell, 1967. A selection of 55 articles from the BBC magazine "The Listener". Most of them deal with specific compositions that were subsequently broadcast, a few mark anniversaries, while some are transcripts of broadcast talks." Pp.xii/260. Brown cloth, dustwrapper...

Vincent D'Indy. 1851-1931. Champion of Classicism.

DEMUTH, NORMAN. · 1951 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: Rockcliff, 1951. 1st edition. Tribute to Vincent D'Indy published on the centenary of his birth, presenting the man, the teacher and the composer. Pp.viii/117, black 7 white photo portrait frontispiece, light spotting to endpapers. Brown cloth, spine sunned and some bl...

Frederick Delius.

BEECHAM, SIR THOMAS. · 1959 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: Hutchinson, 1959. 1st edition. "Written in fulfilment of a personal pledge to Jelka Delius[the wife of Delius], and..makes clear the facts of the composer's life, disentangling them from the ambiguity and legend that his previous biographers - and even Delius himself, ...

A Delius Companion. A 70th Birthday Tribute to Eric Fenby.

REDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. (EDITOR). · 1976 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,109)

London: John Calder, 1976. 0714535265. 1st edition."Brings together wiritings about the man and his music by distinguished musicians and friends, which give a many faceted picture of their subject..Frederick Delius." Pp.270, 18 black & white illustrations. Brown cloth, dustwra...

The Western Wind. Mass for Unaccompanied Chor. (Transcribed and edited by Philip Brett).

TAVERNER, JOHN. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,218)

London: Stainer & Bell Ltd, 1962. Libretto and score. 25.5cms x 18cms. Pp.40. Paperback. VG.