New York: Simon and Schuster, 1939. van Loon, Hendrik Willem. Hardcover. [2], 96 p.: music, illustrations by Hendrik Willem van Loon; 31 cm. White paper over boards with black spine title and cover title, the latter within color illustration. White dust jacket with black spine title and cover title, the...
New York: G. Schirmer, 1925. Soft Cover. 1 vocal score ([2], 55 p.); 27 cm. Yellow paper covers. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. The words from the authorized version with additions from 'Taverner's Bible' and other sources". Pianoforte arrangement by Havergal Brian. Curwen edition. Former owner's name at head of...
New York: C.F. Peters, 1961. Paperback. Vocal score ([4], 4 p.); 27 cm. Paper covers. Cover title: Ave Maria: 4-part Chorus a Cappella. Based on an enigmatic scale (Scala enigmatica) for four-part a cappella choir. Edited by Kurt Soldan. Piano accompaniment for rehearsals only. Text in Latin, with English translation...
Frankfurt, Ger. C.F. Peters, 1961. Paperback. 1 vocal score ([iv], 17 p.): music; 27 cm. Paper covers with publisher's advertisement on back cover. Edited by Kurt Soldan. Text is in Latin. In Very Good+ Condition: a few pencilled notations; otherwise clean and tight.
Berlin: Ullstein & Co., 1913. Paperback. 16 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with some lyrics. Inside back wrapper has photographs of Enrico Caruso, Emmy Destinn, and Marie Goetze in productions of Aida. In Good Condition: front wrapper scraped along...
New York: C.F. Peters, 1961. Paperback. Vocal score ([4], 24 p.); 27 cm. Paper covers. Edited by Kurt Soldan. Text in Latin. English and German translations precedes score. For soprano solo, four-part double chorus and orchestra. Inside and outside of back cover contain publisher's advertisements. No date of publication given...
London: Boosey & Hawkes, 1940. Paperback. English translation by Alfred Kalisch. Libretto to the music by Richard Strauss, Op. 59. 135 p.; 26 cm. Brown paper covers. At head of front cover: Metropolitan Opera. Contains German text on left-hand pages and English on right-hand. In Very Good Condition: cover slightly...
Berlin: Ullstein, 1906. Paperback. 16 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Black-and-white photograph on front wrapper of Lohengrin and a swan. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with some lyrics; accompanied by a few illustrations. In Good- Condition: front wrapper scraped along spine; back wrapper detached...
Berlin: Ullstein & Co., 1910. Paperback. 2 issues with continuous pagination: 32 p.: music, illustrations; 30 cm. Disbound from a larger volume. The music is a piano realization, with lyrics; accompanied by a illustrations. "Alfred Gessler" in pencil at upper edge of first page of each issue. In Good Condition...
Philadelphia: G.E. Blake, 1825. Sheet_music. 1 folio leaf folded, with printing on [2] p.; 33 cm. Caption title. It has no date of publication, but is dated 1825 by Wolfe (Wolfe, Secular Music in America, 9704). Contains from Der Freischütz: Waltz -- The Bridesmaid's Song -- The Hunting Chorus. Arranged...
Hellertown, Pa. T.R. Weber, 1859. Hardcover. Fifth edition; with additions and improvements. xvi, 376, 40 p.: shape-note music; 19 x 27 cm. Red calf spine and corners; pink paper over boards, printed in black. All page edges speckled blue. Final 40 pages contain Supplement to the Pennsylvania Choral Harmony. The...
Baltimore: George Willig, Jr., 1835. Paperback. 26 p. (wrapper included in pagination?): music, drawing of a piano keyboard; 17 x 27 cm. Plain wrappers printed in black. Wrapper title. First 8 pages present Elements of Music. 31 tunes arranged for piano. Contents: [4 simple unnamed tumes] -- Mark my Alford...
New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1864. Paperback. 79, [1] p.: music; 17 x 26 cm. Grey paper wrappers printed in black with black cloth spine. Title vignette signed: Spiegle-Johnson. Title index on final unpaginated page. Publisher's advertisements for musical instruments and music on back wrapper. Copyright 1857 by...
Berlin: Friedrich Späthen, 1802. Hardcover. vi, 816 p.; 17 cm. Contemporary full calf with five spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment: Woltersdorfs Liederpsalmen. Blind-tooled decoration on both boards. All page edges gilt. Blind-tooled decoration on upper and lower page edges. Very unusual blue endpapers. Green ribbon...
Chicago: H.M. Higgins, 1861. Sheet music with lyrics and music by Henry C. Work, the American composer and abolitionist best known today for the songs "Marching Through Georgia" and "My Grandfather's Clock." At head of title page: "Dedicated to the sisters of our volunteers." 5, [1] p.: music; 34 cm...
Chicago: Root & Cady, 1863. 5, [1] p.: music; 34 cm. This is number 17 in the series "Work's Popular Songs & Ballads." Fourteen pieces from this series are illustrated on the title page. Published jointly with: New York: W.A. Pond & Co.; Philadelphia: Lee & Walker; and Boston: H....
Cleveland: S. Brainard's Sons, 1873. Sheet_music. 5, [1] p.: music; 35 cm. Front wrapper illustration signed Baker, Chicago. Sheet music for piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus). At head of front wrapper: Work's Popular Songs, no. 33. Advertisements on inside front wrapper and outside back wrapper for S. Brainard's...
S.l. s.n., 1881. 1 sheet folded vertically holding two pages of music. The three verses of the class song of the Harvard class of 1881, with melody and piano accompaniment. Merle St. Croix Wright (b. 1859) graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1887 and became the pastor of the Lenox...
New York: Grosset & Dunlap; Artists and Writers Guild, 1943. Hardcover. [36] p.: color and black-and-white illustrations, music; 24 cm. Blue cloth spine with title and color illustration on front board; back board is blue. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dust jacket copies cover. Contains 15 lullabies and other sleep-related children's songs...
Boston: Parker & Ditson, 1840. Paperback. 2 volumes: 28, [4], 38, [2] p.: music; 26 x 33 cm. Original plain wrappers (included in page count). Handwritten on front wrappers "Part: 1" and " Part 2." First edition. Organist and composer Heinrich Christoph Zeuner (1795-1857) was born in Saxony but spent...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983. Paperback. Second, revised edition. xxxvi, [2], 473 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Paperback with illustrated front cover. This revised edition of the definitive biography of composer Henry Purcell includes an improved Purcell family genealogy; a complete list of extant portraits of Purcell with illustrations of...
Philadelphia: Smith-Edwards-Dunlap, 1975. Hardcover. x, [2], 133 p.: tables; 23 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket (as issued?). These indices cover about 3,000 vocal and instrumental themes by Henry Purcell. In Near Fine Condition: corners lightly rubbed; clean and bright.
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