Authors starting with P from J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC

Roma:: Giovanni Battista Robletti,. 1614.. 2 volumes. Small quarto. Contemporary carta rustica wrappers. Alto: 1f. (r. title, v. dedication to Monsignor Giuliano Della Rovere), 3-23 printed music, [i] (index) pp. Basso: 1f. (r. title, v. dedication), 3-23 printed music, [i] (index) pp. Titles printed within woodcut borders with additional central woodcut device. Music printed typographically in diamond-head notation. Decorative woodcut headpiece to index page and decorative woodcut initi... more information

Berlin:: Ed. Bote & Bock [PN 15231],. [ca. 1905].. Folio. Red cloth. 437 pp.Ex-library, with library stamping, etc. Binding worn and rubbed. Slightly browned; small tears to lower margin of title. ... more information

Bruxelles:: Fils de B. Schott,. [ca. 1850].. Quarter leather with cloth boards. 3ff., 109, [i] (secondary title), 110- 217 pp. Ex-library. In very good condition internally.Binding worn and defective; upper detached. Slightly foxed. ... more information

London:: William Reeves,. n.d... Octavo. 511 pp. Illustrated. Slightly worn and browned. ... more information

1 page of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated Vienna, November 14, 1898. A friendly letter, asking why she has not heard from her correspondent and saying "I suffer neurological pain... Why don't you tell me how your little daughter is doing?" Creased at folds at at upper edge. . Papier-Paumgartner, a noted Austrian singer, became one of the most respected singing teachers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries; she taught at the Vienna Conservatory from 1893-1930. ... more information

Ca. 6 x 2 mm. Trimmed from a larger document, first letter of first name just slightly affected; slightly thumbed; laid down. . As an educator and founder of the Yale University music department, Parker had a strong influence on American musical development. ... more information

New York :: G. Schirmer,. [c1911].. Octavo. Brown cloth, original publisher's printed wrappers bound in. 273 pp.Ex-library, with library stamping, etc. Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Minor browning; repair to inner margin of wrapper. ... more information

The American composer, organist and teacher James Cutler Dunn Parker taught at the New England Conservatory and served as organist at Boston's Trinity Church and the Handel and Haydn Society. ... more information

New York:: Atheneum,. 1985.. Octavo. Quarter burgundy cloth with green boards, Second copy, black cloth boards. In dustjacket. 239 pp. Illustrated. Dustjacket slightly worn and stained. ... more information

Theodore Presser ,. 1971.. Folio. Wrappers. 64 pp. Upper wrapper very slightly stained. . The third of the composer's operatic triptych, the others being La Divina and The Women. ... more information

Milano:: Curci,. 1939.. Octavo. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 375 pp. With musical examples. Wrappers worn and stained; head and tail of spine frayed. Upper joint partially split; browning to margins. . Second edition. ... more information

Stanford:: Stanford University,. 1950.. Quarto. Original publisher's boards. xii, 310 pp. ... more information

Aberdeen:: Printed by J. Chalmers & Co. ,. 1805.. Octavo. Original paper boards. xiv, [15]-224 pp. With list of subscribers to pp. 220-224. Early manuscript note to final leaf: "By Order of the Town Council of Aberdeen (20 Copies)."Binding worn; upper detached. Minor to moderate browning throughout; small portion of blank margin of pp. 209/210 lacking; lacking final leaf of additional subscribers and rear free endpaper. . First Edition. Very scarce. Beaumont p. 138. Magriel p. 78. Ni... more information

Aberdeen:: Printed by J. Chalmers & Co. ,. 1805.. Octavo. Original paper boards. xiv, [15]-224 pp. With list of subscribers to pp. 220-224. Early manuscript note to final leaf: "By Order of the Town Council of Aberdeen (20 Copies)."With charming contemporary inscription to free front endpaper: From T. Burnett with his best Bow to Miss Burnett Crather."Binding worn; upper detached. Minor to moderate browning throughout; small portion of blank margin of pp. 209/210 lacki... more information

The program included first performances in America of Penderecki's "When Jacob Awoke" and the Concerto for Cello and Orchestra. . A Polish composer and conductor, "[Penderecki] first came to prominence as an explorer of novel string textures and for many years his name was popularly synonymous with avant-garde Polish music. His subsequent allusions to 18th- and 19th-century idioms and genres, in his choral and operatic works as well as in his purely instrumental pieces, has produced a sub... more information

The program included the American premiere of Penderecki's "Te Deum."With the autograph signatures of both Penderecki and Rostropovich. . Penderecki, a Polish composer and conductor, "first came to prominence as an explorer of novel string textures and for many years his name was popularly synonymous with avant-garde Polish music. His subsequent allusions to 18th- and 19th-century idioms and genres, in his choral and operatic works as well as in his purely instrumental pieces, h... more information

London:: John Watts,. 1729.. Quarto. Fine full early panelled calf with raised bands to spine. 1f. (title page printed in red and black), [iv] (contents, cast list), [ii] (introduction), 60 (libretto), 46 (engraved music) pp. Bound with: Pepusch, Johann Christoph 1667-1752. Polly: An Opera Being the Second Part of The Beggar's Opera. London: the Author, 1729. 1f. (title printed in red and black), [viii] (preface and introduction), 72 (libretto) 31 (engraved music) pp. First Edition. BUC p. 801... more information

London:: John Watts,. 1728.. Octavo. Full early 20th century dark green morocco with gilt ruled boards and gilt titling to spine. 4ff. (title, Table of Songs, Dramatis Personae, Introduction), 8 (Overture in Score), 76 pp. Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped; spine restored; edges of endpapers browned. . Second Edition, second issue (the second edition appeared approximately two months after the first), and the first printing to contain the Ouverture in Score. The verso of the title with prin... more information

London:: John Watts,. 1728.. Octavo. Full dark brown contemporary calf with gilt titling to spine. 4ff. (title, Table of Songs, Dramatis Personae, Introduction), 8 (Overture in Score), 76 pp. With bookplate of Gilbert Samuel Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, to front pastedown. Early manuscript alterations to first page of overture, possibly in the hand of one Henry Thomas. Binding slightly worn, rubbed and bumped; spine restored. Some light wear and soiling internally. . Second Edition, third iss... more information

Paris; Lion[!]:: Bayard... Le Clerc... Mlle. Castagneri... Desbretonne,. [1753].. Folio. Modern quarter dark brown calf with marbled boards, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt. 1f. (title), [1] (blank), 2-29 pp. Engraved. With a fine pictorial title incorporating various elements including four instrumentalists, two singers and a conductor. With early signature of Le Bras to title (twice) and first page of music. Title very slightly worn and creased; edges slightly darkened with... more information