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English County Folk Songs.

SHARP, CECIL J. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

London: Novello and Company Limited, 1961. Originally printed in 5 volumes, this one volume edition was produced in June 1961. Contains folk songs from the counties of Dorset, Essex, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hampshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire...

Toscanini and the Art of Conducting.

MARSH, ROBERT CHARLES. · 1962 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York: Collier Books, 1962. New, Revised edition. "Writing lucidly and knowledgeably, the distinguished music critiic of the Chicago Sun-Times defines those powers of mind and musicianship which set Toscanini apart from other conductors of our time and which for millions of...

Choral and Orchestral Societies. (Curwen's Edition, 5056).

VENABLES, L.C. · 1928 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London: J.Curwen & Sons Ltd, nd. (c.1928). A Book of Hints on their Organisation, and Business and Musical Management. Sixth edition, Enlarged. Pp.iv/273/3(publisher's catalogue), 1 folding diagram, gift message to inside front board (dated 1928). Brown cloth, gilt title to fr...

The Songs of Henri Duparc.

NORTHCOTE, SYDNEY. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

London: Dennis Dobson Ltd, 1949. 1st edition. Intended to serve as an introduction to the study of his songs rather than as a full-length biography. Pp.122, portrait frontispiece and further portrait plate, many examples of musical notations, owner's name to front free endpape...

Prima Donna. A History.

CHRISTIANSEN, RUPERT. · 1986 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. 0140083782. "Prima Donna puts three hundred years of these remarkable women - from Pasta and Patti to Flagstad and Callas - into their historical and musical context. In it, the author reveals their important creative contribution to the developme...

Stars of the Opera.

BARKER, FRANK GRANVILLE. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

York: British Poetry-Drama Guild / The Lotus Press, 1949. 1st edition. A series of personal pen-portraits of: Benjiamino Gigli, Eva Turner, Lauritz Melchior, Toti Dal Monte, Luigi Infantino, Ljuba Welitsch, Paolo' Silveri, Constance Shacklock, Tito Gobbi, and The English Opera...

Twenty Famous Songs by Johannes Brahms. (High Voice).

BRAHMS, JOHANNES. · 0 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

South Croydon: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd. Simrock's Edition. Includes: 1.To a Nightingale; 2.To a Violet; 3.The Blacksmith; 4.A Hamlet 'Neath the Willows; 5.In Summer Fields; 6.Good Night (serenade); 7.Ever Lighter Grow My Slumbers; 8.Constancy; 9.Love Song; 10.The Sandman;...

Brahms: 15 Selected Songs. Book Two. Low Voice.

BRAHMS / WHISTLER, ROBERT (TRANSLATOR). · 0 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: Alfred Lengnick & Co.Ltd, nd. English translations by Robert Whistler. English & German words. 31cms x 23.5cms. Pp.63. Paperback, owner's name (singing coach Jean Marshall) to top of front, rubbing to price, wear to top andd tail of spine. G+.

"From Bach to Bartok". The Development of Orchestral Music from 1725-1943.

O'DEA, T / ROBERTSON, ALEC. · 1955 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: London Philharmonic Orchestra, 1955. Contents: Foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. An Outline of European History from 1700 to date by T.O'Dea; A Short History of Orchestral Development by Alec Robertson; Programme Notes of 36 Orchestral Works by George Barker, Alan Gregory,...

Farewell MyYouth.

BAX, ARNOLD. · 1949 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1949. New impression. Autobiography of Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, KCVO (1883 – 1953), the English composer, poet, and author. His prolific output includes songs, choral music, chamber pieces, and solo piano works, but he is best known for his...

A Soprano on Her Head.

RISTAD, ELOISE. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1993. 0911226214. Right-side-up reflections on life and other performances. "Eloise Ristad discusses the problems of nervousness and/or nervous energy with a physiological understanding of human behaviour under stress, imaginative and original ps...

Emma Albani: Victorian Diva.

MACDONALD, CHERYL. · 1984 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Toronto: Dundurn Press Limited, 1984. 0919670741. "Emma (Lajeunesse) Albani, one of Canada's first internationally known performers, began as a student singing in a Chambly, Quebec convent and an Albany, New York church. From her opera debut in April 1870 in Sicily to her fare...

Radio Onederland. The Story of Radio One. (Signed).

SKUES, KEITH. · 1968 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Lavenham: The Landmark Press 1968. 1st edition. Foreword by Robin Scott (Controller Radio One and Two). Written by the D.J. Keith Skues, the book is basically about the first year of Radio 1 - from September 30th, 1967 - September 30th, 1968, following its formation in reactio...

Verdi and / or Wagner. Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries.

CONRAD, PETER. · 2013 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. 9780500290859. 1st paperback edition. "A scintillating absorbing read..page after page of elegantly calculated, richly allusive prose comparing, contrasting and deconstructing the lives and works of his two operatic giants" (Opera). 23.5cms x 17c...

Henry Purcell.

KING, ROBERT. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Thames and Hudson, 1994. 0500016259. 1st edition. "Robert King weaves a masterly narrative, bringing together politics (always in the forefront of Purcell's fortunes), religion, society and the theatre. Relating all this to the state of music at the time - instruments,...

The Envy of the World. Fifty Years of the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3. 1946-1996.

CARPENTER, HUMPHREY. · 1996 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. 0297817205. 1st edition. "With unlimited access to BBC archives, Humphrey Carpenter throws fresh light on Dylan Thomas, John Betjeman and Michael Tippett, among others, and brings alive the individuals who have created the programmes and ...

Cathedral Organists Past and Present A Record of the Succession of Organists of the Cathedrals Chapels Royal and Principal Collegiate Churches of the United Kingdom from About the Period of the Reformation Until the Present Day...

WEST, JOHN E. · 1921 · Chilton Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London: Novello And Company, 1921 . 0. "A New And Enlarged Edtion". A very good original binding with hand written notes by the author and a letter to the author signed by William Henry Grattan Flood. 8vo. 8.75" x 5.75" x 0.5". pp.20/pp.176. Blue cloth with gilt titles to fron...

The Life of Brahms. (2 Volume set).

MAY, FLORENCE. · 1948 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London: William Reeves, nd (c.1948). Second edition revised by the Author, with Additional Matter and Illustrations, and an Introduction by Ralph Hill. Two volumes with continuous pagination: pp.xx/699/30(publisher's catalogue), 15 illustrations, spotting to closed page edges,...

Wagner's Parsifal in English Verse.

FORMAN, ALFRED. · 1899 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Printed for the Translator by Private Subscription, 1899. Printed for the Translator by Private Subscription, and Issued with the Consent of Messrs, Schott & Co. Regent Street. Pp.xvi/72//4(reviews of Alfred Forman's other Wagner translations), toning to endpapers, gif...

Fifty Shakspere Songs. For High Voices.

VINCENT, CHARLES. (EDITOR). · 1973 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

New York: AMS Press, 1973. 0404067670. Reprinted from the edition of 1906, (Boston: Oliver Ditson). Pp.xxx/157, small bookseller's label (Kitazawa Bookstore, Tokyo) to inside front board. Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.