Musica

Peter Warlock. The Life of Philip Heseltine.

SMITH, BARRY. · 1994 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.86 | $132.11 | ¥21,096)

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. 019816310X. 1st edition. Pp.xviii/347, 34 black & white plates. Black cloth, dustwrapper has a removable clear protective wrap. Scarce in hardcover. "The story of a brilliant, yet unhappy young man, a sensitive song-writer of remarkable g...

Principles and Recommendations. (R.S.C.M).

NICHOLSON, SIR SYDNEY H. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Croydon: The Royal School of Church Music, 1960. 4th edition. Pp.64. Blue card covers, owner's name to top of front cover. G+.

Ernest Chausson: The Man and His Music.

GROVER, RALPH SCOTT. · 1980 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

London: The Athlone Press, 1980. 0485112175. "Ernest Chausson (20 January 1855 – 10 June 1899) was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish..Chausson left behind only 39 opus-numbered pieces. Musical creation for him always proved to be ...

Edward Elgar. Music and Literature.

MONK, RAYMOND. (EDITOR). · 1993 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1993. 0859679373. First edition. xxviii/368pp./16 black and white plates. Brown cloth, dustwrapper. "This collection of essayys seeks to reflect many aspects of the life and work of Edward Elgar. The book extends Elgarian horizons and often successfull...

Music in a New Found Land. Themes and Developments in the History of American Music.

MELLERS, WILFRID. · 1964 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1964. 1st edition. "American music, like American history, has its own special flavour and in a variety of ways expresses the rich diversity of American life - the sheer engergy, the ebullience, the loneliness and especially through Negro spiritual...

Parry to Finzi. Twenty English Song-Composers.

HOLD, TREVOR. · 2002 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.53 | $63.41 | ¥10,126)

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2002. 0851158870. 1st edition. "As well as the major figures - Parry, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Ireland, Gurney, Warlock and Finzi - there are chapters on lesser-known composers, such as Denis Browne and Charles Orr..The text is illust...

Paris. The Musical Kaleidoscope 1870-1925.

BRODY, ELAINE. · 1988 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

London: Robson Books, 1988. 0860515052. "Elaine Brody has captured all the variety and vitality of the city that emerged as the musical capital of the world between 1870 and 1925. Her portrait of Parisian musicians, artists and poets, many of whom made up the city's thriving c...

Mahler. Das Lied Von Der Erde. (The Song of the Earth).

HEFLING, STEPHEN E. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 0521475589. "Since its premiere Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) has been widely regarded as his finest materpiece..Das Lied was written in the wake of three catastrophic events that shook the foundations of Ma...

The Order For Placebo or Vespers of the Dead from the Diurnal Noted.

PALMER, REV.G.H. · 1947 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Wantage: St Mary's Press, 1947. Nine page booklet with musical line and words for the vespers of the dead adapted by Rev.G.H.Palmer. Brown card covers. VG.** "By the eighth century, the Christian Church in the West had an established form and content of its Office of the Dead ...

The Union School-Song Garland. A Collection of Songs for School and Home Use; The Music Arranged for Two Trebles and Bass, and Printed in Hamilton's Patent Union Musical Notation, (Invented by Mr John Lang).

[MCGAVIN, WILLIAM/HUME, W.M./ BAPTIE, DAVID]. · 1870 · Chilton Books

£58.00 (€69.52 | $76.62 | ¥12,235)

London: Bayley & Ferguson, nd. Originally published in the 1870s, this edition is probably from around the 1890s. A collection of songs for schoolchildren. "The music is written in the " patent union notation," which is an ingenious combination of the ordinary and the tonic so...

Masonic Funeral Lodge Music Arranged for Male Voices. By P. Robertson MacArthur, Director of Music, "The Lodge of Glasgow," St John No. 3 Bis, 1902 .

MACARTHUR, P. ROBERTSON - MASONIC MUSIC . · 1902 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Glasgow: Privately Printed for St John No. 3 Bis, 1902 . 0. Large booklet. 31cm x 25cm [16pp.] .Cream paper covers with printed titles, edges lightly rubbed and toned. Spine carefully strengthened. 8 leaves of musical score, each song set out in musical score, and then duplica...

The Super Stars.

PASCALL, JEREMY. · 1974 · Chilton Books

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

London: Phoebus Publishing, 1974. 0. Story of Pop Special. 29.5cms x 22cms. Includes articles on Slade, Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Osmond Bros, Jackson 5, David Bowie, David Cassidy, Alice Cooper, Elton John, The Who, Diana Ross, Sweet, and Marc Bolan. Pp.63, illust...

Songs for the Army and Navy.

RUTHVEN, GOWRIE. · 1917 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London: Nisbet & Co.Ltd, nd [1917]. 0. Dating from the World War One, thirty one songs including: Hymn for Soldiers; Hymn for Sailors; Kitchener's Men; Women's War Prayer; The Captain Stood on the Carronade; and The Hymn of Victory. Pp.70, black & white frontispiece of a stain...

National Book of Hymn-Tunes Chants & Kyries: Part 3. Kyries.

JEFFERSON, WILLIAM ARTHUR. · 1885 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

London: Patey & Willis, nd. (c.1885). 0. 28cms x 22cms. Part 3 only. Pp.58, all edges red, musical score + words, small owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt illustrated title to front, spine and edges rubbed. VG.

Octoechos : or, The book of eight tones : a primer containing the Sunday service in eight tones... [ Translated from the Slavonian first edition of 1891, by Professor N. Orloff ] .

ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH. · 1898 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London : J. Davy & Sons , 1898 . 0. First full English text of Octoechos, with presentation message "Presented to His Eminence, Archbishop & Metropolitan Joseph of the Romanian Orthodox Church on the occasion of his visit to the Saint Stephen the Great / SPCK Bookshop in Westm...

Five Bagatelles. (Piano Solo).

FERGUSON, HOWARD. · 1945 · Chilton Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London: Boosey & Hawkes, nd. Piano solo with a duration of approximately 7 minutes. (Copyright 1945). 31cms x 23.5cms. Pp.16, musical score for piano. Pbk. VG.

The Instruments of Samuel Green.

WICKENS, DAVID C. · 1987 · Chilton Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

Basingstoke:Macmillan Press(Music Division), 1987. 0333427203. 1st edition. "A detailed description and catalogue of the life and works of the English organ builder Samuel Green (1740-96), this is an authoritative study, providing the most up-to-date research." Pp.xiv/209, com...

Pleines Voix. Chansonnier Pour la Jeunesse Protestante Romande.

LA COMMISSION DE JEUNESSE DE L'EGLISE NATIONALE VAUDOISE. · 0 · Chilton Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Lausanne, nd. 0. 3rd edition. 15cms x 10cms. Pp.222, music and words in French, black and orange illustrations by Marcel Vidoudez throughout, inkstamps (Eglise Suisse de Londres) to endpapers, slight toning to pages. Green cloth, title and silhouettes of two children's heads t...

Sing Along with the Barber Shop Book.

YODER, PAUL. · 1961 · Chilton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Illinois: Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 1961. 0. "Thirty-five favorite tunes arranged in true Barber Shop harmonization. Piano introductions are optional." Pp.38/2 pages for filling in 'Your Own Specials' on the provided musical staves. Pbk, owners details to top of front cover....

God So Loved the World. A Devotion for Congregation and Choir.

ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC. · 1960 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Croydon: The Royal School of Church Music, 1960. 0. Music edition. Pp.32. Pbk. VG.