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Music in Nineteenth Century Java. A Precursor to the Twentieth Century.

KARTOMI, Margaret J. · 1990

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Singapore University Press, 1990. Paperback. An issue (offprint) of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. Volume XXI, No. 1. March, 1990. B/W photos & illus. 34pp.

Sidelights on a Century of Music. 1825 - 1924.

HUGHES, Gervase. · 1970

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St Martin's Press, 1970. Hardcover. Good in price-clipped dj. Music exs. Essays on unusual aspects of composers' works eg Wagner's piano music & lesser known composers such as Marschner, Halevy, Sterndale Bennett, Goetz, Cowen, Reger, Chabrier etc. 204pp.

A Marriage of Convenience: Relations Between the Mexico and the United States.

WEINTRAUB, Sidney. · 1990

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Oxford University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Condition good in slightly sunned dj. 270pp.

French Music of Today.

JEAN-AUBURY, G. EVANS, Edwin trans. · 0

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Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., n.d. 3rd Impression. Hardcover. Quarter-bound leather. Preface by Faure. Looks at composers, performers, poets etc. Includes Ravel, Roussel, Satie, Duparc, Dukas, Baudelaire, Joachim Nin etc. Good. xxix, 262pp.

The Passing Show.

RUSSELL, Henry. · 1926

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Thornton Butterworth, 1926. 1st ed. Hardcover. Frontis. B/W plates. Spine sunned. Top of spine frayed. Mark to cover. Some foxing. Memoirs that refer to Boito, Puccini, Maeterlinck, & Caruso. Spine a little worn. 295pp.

Why Freud Fainted.

ROSENBERG, Samuel. · 1978

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The Bobbs-Merril Co., 1978. Hardcover. Constructs a provocative theory to explain his often compulsive, sometimes hysterical behaviour. A few small tears to top of dj. 256pp.

Sean O'Casey & His World.

KRAUSE, David. · 1976

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Thames & Hudson, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Good in dj. B/W photos. 128pp.

Mao and the Perpetual Revolution.

MICHAEL, Franz. · 1977

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Barron's, 1977. Hardcover. An illuminating study of Mao Tse-tung's role in China & world communism. Small tear to back of dj. Edges a little foxed & stained. B/W photos. xviii, 326pp.

The Classical Style. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.

ROSEN, Charles. · 1971

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Faber, 1971. 1st ed. Hardcover. Price-clipped dj. Edges discoloured, otherwise good. Music exs. 467pp.

Boulez. Composer, Conductor, Enigma.

PEYSER, Joan. · 1977

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Cassell, 1977. 1st UK ed. Hardcover. Condition vg in slightly sunned dj. Review copy. B/W plates. An in-depth bio of the man & his music. 303pp.

Cosima Wagner. Extraordinary Daughter of Franz Liszt.

SOKOLOFF, Alice Hunt. · 1969

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Dodd, Mead & Co., 1969. 1st ed. Hardcover. Condition vg in price-clipped dj. B/W plates. A bio of this influential woman. xi, 301pp.

Gershwin.

PAYNE, Robert. · 1962

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Robert Hale, 1962. 1st UK ed. Hardcover. Fine in striking dj. B/W plates. An in-depth bio of the popular composer. 128pp.

Wagner.

JACOBS, Robert L. · 1974

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Dent, 1974 (1965). Hardcover. Fine in dj. Music exs. B/W plates. Master Musicians series. An in-depth bio of the man & his music. x, 278pp.

Music & Society Since 1815.

RAYNOR, Henry. · 1976

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Barrie & Jenkins, 1976. Hardcover. Good condition in dj. Dj worn at edges. Some pencilling. A study of how composers & other musicians fared after the social upheaval of the late 18th & early 19th centuries. 213pp.

The Life of Rossini.

STENDHAL. COE, Richard E. trans. · 1985

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John Calder, 1985. 2nd ed. Paperback. Condition very good in dust jacket (strange for a paperback!). A fascinating & penetrating account. xxiv, 566pp. ISBN 071450632X.

Oscar Sonneck and American Music.

LICHTENWANGER, William ed. · 1983

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University of Illinois Press, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. B/W photo. Writings by & about Sonneck. xxii, 277pp.

Songs & Song Writers.

FINCK, Henry T. · 1902

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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 2nd ed. Hardcover. Frontis. B/W plates. Includes lesser known composers eg Reichardt, Zelter, Zumsteeg, Spohr, Marschner, Jensen, Padarewski, as well as the more well-known composers eg Gluck, Haydn, Schumann, Wagner etc. Gilt to title. Previous ...

The Listening Composer.

PERLE, George. · 1990

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University of California Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine in dj. Music exs. xiii, 202pp.

The Days Grow Short. The Life & Music of Kurt Weill.

SANDERS, Ronald. · 1980

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Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980. Hardcover. Fine in dj. B/W photos. viii, 469pp.

The Music of Britten & Tippett. Studies in Themes & Techniques.

WHITTALL, Arnold. · 1990

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Cambridge University Press, 1990. 2nd ed. Paperback. Music exs. Good. vii, 325pp.