![Mignon Opéra en Trois Actes ... Paroles de MM Michel Carré & Jules Barbier Traduzione di Giuseppe Zaffira Piano e Canto Netto: 20 f ... Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra Comique. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/125/376/1410376125.0.l.jpg)
Mignon Opéra en Trois Actes ... Paroles de MM Michel Carré & Jules Barbier Traduzione di Giuseppe Zaffira Piano e Canto Netto: 20 f ... Théâtre Impérial de l'Opéra Comique. [Piano-vocal score]
by THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896
Paris: Au Ménestrel, Heugel & Cie. [H. 3578], 1890. Large octavo. Textured red cloth flexible boards, spine in gilt-ruled compartments with titling gilt. 1f. (recto decorative half title, verso blank), 1f. (recto illustrated title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance, cast list, and contents, verso copyright statement), 1f. (publisher's catalogue), [i] (blank), 2-397, [iii] (blank), 23(1)-23(2), 196(1)-196 (10), 238(1)-238(6) pp. Text in Italian and French. Binding slightly worn. Some signatures loose; small circular publisher's handstamp... Read More
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Original pencil sketch by the French artist Paul Jean Flandrin (1811-1902)
by THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896
1860. Ca. 310 x 225 mm. Thomas is depicted seated at the piano, an owl perched on top of the instrument, a snake and turtle behind the composer. On wove paper. Signed by the artist at lower right in ink. Some light foxing and wear; small hole to upper right quadrant not affecting drawing. "After years of neglect, Thomas' work has seen a considerable revival in the last two decades of the 20th century, with major performances,... Read More
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![Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Été Opéra en Trois Actes Poème de MM. Rosier et de Leuven ... Paritition Réduite au Piano par M. Vauthrot Nouvelle Édition Entièrement Regravée Avec les nouveaux morceaux composés par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/155/822/970822155.0.l.jpg)
Le Songe d'une Nuit d'Été Opéra en Trois Actes Poème de MM. Rosier et de Leuven ... Paritition Réduite au Piano par M. Vauthrot Nouvelle Édition Entièrement Regravée Avec les nouveaux morceaux composés par l'Auteur. [Piano-vocal score]
by THOMAS, Ambroise 1811-1896
Paris: Au Ménestrel... Henri Heugel [PN 5580], 1886. Large octavo. Quarter brown calf with marbled boards, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt. 1f. (title), 1f. (recto named cast list and contents, verso blank), 392 pp. Title and cast leaf printed within light purple decorative borders. Binding worn and rubbed; endpapers detached; former owner's signature "Mathilde Laporte" to front free endpaper slightly trimmed just affecting one letter. Slightly foxed; some signatures partially split; Bordeaux... Read More
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![And she says true..." Song for tenor voice and piano. Engraved [?]proof copy signed by British tenor John Harrison](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/866/909/1114909866.0.l.jpg)
And she says true..." Song for tenor voice and piano. Engraved [?]proof copy signed by British tenor John Harrison
by THOMAS, Arthur Goring 1850-1892
Small folio. Paginated 141-145. Complete. With the handstamp of British tenor John Harrison in purple ink to upper outer portion of first page of music and the oval handstamp of Boosey & Co., 295 Regent Street, [London] 6 Apr. [19]08 to upper inner corner. Taped into plain yellow wrappers with manuscript titling to upper: "Recit this "O vision entrancing" (Esmerelda) Goring Thomas," signed in full by Harrison. With corrections and annotations in pencil. ... Read More
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Theodore Thomas: A Musical Autobiography. Edited by George P. Upton with a New Introduction by Leon Stein
by THOMAS, Theodore
New York: Da Capo, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Brown boards with titling gilt to spine. 378 pp. With occasional illustrations. In slightly worn dustjacket.
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Great Modern Composers
by THOMPSON, Oscar
Cleveland: World, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. x, 383 pp.
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Virgil Thomson: His Life and Music
by [THOMSON]. Hoover, Kathleen and John Cage
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 288 pp. Dustjacket slightly worn.
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Autograph letter ordering Toklas's account of her life with Gertrude Stein. Signed in full
by THOMSON, Virgil 1896-1989
Octavo. 1 page. Dated 20 June 1979. In black ink. On lightweight personal letterhead with Thomson's name and address at 222 West 23rd Street in New York printed at head. with autograph envelope with Thomson's handstamp to verso. Relative to his interest in purchasing a copy of Alice B. Toklas's account of her legendary life with Gertrude Stein: "Yes please I shall be happy to have the A.B. Toklas What I Remembered for $15," requesting... Read More
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Autograph note relative to an unproduced film scored by Thomson in 1930 and text by Gertrude Stein
by THOMSON, Virgil 1896-1989
1 page. Quarto. In pencil. With "rec'd" in manuscript in red and small date handstamp in black "Mar 22 1979" to lower outer corner. "Virgil Thomson. Film: Deux Soeurs qui ne sont pas soeurs. Two Sisters Not Sisters for medium voice and piano. Original scenario in French by Gertrude Stein. English translation by Donald Sutherland." Very slightly worn and creased. An American composer and critic, "[Thomson] produced a sizeable catalog of stylistically diverse compositions characterized by... Read More
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Autograph letter signed ("Virgil T") to American musicologist and conductor, Paul Echols (1944-1994)
by THOMSON, Virgil 1896-1989
1 page. Octavo. In pencil. Dated "13 September 79." On lightweight personal letterhead with "Virgil Thomson, 222 West 23rd Street, New York 11, N.Y." printed in black at head. With small date handstamp in black to blank lower outer corner "Sep 13 1979." Thomson asks Echols to "check the orchestral parts against this score for reduced orchestra," saying that because of the numerous transpositions "uncertainties can be settled by a glance at the v. + p. score," and... Read More
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Autograph note signed in full
by THOMSON, Virgil 1896-1989
Octavo. On personal onionskin letterhead with the composer's name and address printed at head. Sending "good wishes" to Mr. Adamson, dated 7 February 1968. Creased at folds and slightly overall; small spot of black mounting paper to head of verso. An American composer and critic, "[Thomson] produced a sizeable catalog of stylistically diverse compositions characterized by expressive directness and textural transparency, written in a language that drew from hymnbook harmony, popular song, and dance idioms of the... Read More
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The Music in the St. Victor Manuscript Paris lat. 15139. Polyphony of the Thirteenth Century
by THURSTON, Ethel, ed
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1959. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto. Wrappers. 46 pp. Dampstaining to lower margins.
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Original full-length role portrait photograph of the prominent American baritone as Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci together with cut signature laid down to ivory paper mount
by TIBBETT, Lawrence 1896-1960
Ca. 22 x 109 mm. From the Lumiere studio in New York, with the handstamp of the Evans and Salter Management to verso. Slightly worn; short crease to upper margin.
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Histoire de la Marseillaise: Nombreuses gravures documentaires fac-similés, autographes, oeuvres musicales de Rouget de Lisle. 8 planches hors texte
by TIERSOT, Julien
Paris: Delagrave, 1915. Hardcover. Fair. Large octavo. Full dark red cloth with titling stamped in black and decorative device gilt to upper, titling stamped in black to spine, blue endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding worn, rubbed, bumped, and shaken. Ex-library, with remnants of 19th century French bookplate to front pastedown. Slightly browned; signatures split.
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Piano Concerto. [Study score]
by TIPPETT, Michael 1905-1988
London: Schott & Co. [5984; Edition Schott 10925], 1965. Paperback. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 1f., 193 pp. Spine slightly worn. First Edition, later issue.
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Performing Arts of Japan: V Gagaku Court Music and Dance ... translated by Don Kenny with an introduction by William P. Malm
by TOGI, Masataro
New York: Walker/Weatherhill, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 207 pp. Profusely illustrated. From the collection of the musicologist Stanley Boorman.
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![The Dashing Little Duke, A Musical Play, by Seymour Hicks. Lyrics by Adrian Ross. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/027/436/989436027.0.l.jpg)
The Dashing Little Duke, A Musical Play, by Seymour Hicks. Lyrics by Adrian Ross. [Piano-vocal score]
by TOURS, Frank Edward 1877-1963
London: Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew [PN 4966], 1909. Quarto. Full black cloth with titling in gilt to upper and spine. [i] (title), [ii] (blank), [iii] (dramatis personae), [iv] (contents), 176 pp. First Edition.
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Libro de Musica Practica
by TOVAR, Francisco
Madrid: Joyas Bibliograficas, 1976. Softcover. Very Good. Folio. Wrappers. xxxv ff. Viejos Libros de Musica 6.
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Some English Symphonists: A Selection from Essays in Musical Analysis
by TOVEY, Donald Francis
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full dark blue cloth with titling gilt to spine. 80 pp. With musical examples throughout. Slightly browned. In slightly worn dustjacket.
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Essays in Musical Analysis: Chamber Music ... With an Editor's Note by Hubert J. Foss
by TOVEY, Donald Francis
London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Full mid-blue cloth with titling gilt to spine. 217 pp. With numerous musical examples. Front free endpaper slightly browned. In worn dustjacket.
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Printed visiting card with autograph sentiment (unsigned). Laid down to mounting sheet with signature ("A. Trantoul) and date "New York 19-4-1930
by TRANTOUL, Antonoin 1887-1966
Visiting card 62 x 85 mm., mounting sheet 140 x 185 mm. A pupil of Jean de Reszke in Paris, Trantoul made his stage debut in 1911 at the opera house of Nimes as Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon - the beginning of a big career. From 1920-24 he was at the Opéra-Comique in Paris and from 1923-35 was also at the Grand Opera. His roles included the title character in Gounod's Faust, the Duke in Rigoletto, title characters... Read More
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Postcard photograph with autograph signature of the German film actor dated 1919. Addressed to Walter Honig in Vienna
by TRESSLER, Otto 1871-1965
Studio of L. Gutmann in Vienna. From the collection of the distinguished American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne (b. 1934). Slightly worn and soiled. Otto Tressler was a celebrated German film actor who appeared in 46 films between 1915-1963, including "Lover Divine," "Castles in the Air," and "Sissi." The Honig family emigrated from Vienna to England in September of 1938 and then to the United States in 1939. The family papers are held at the Holocaust Museum in... Read More
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Fine small engraving of two elegantly-dressed Renaissance musicians playing flute and large side drum
by TREU, Martin fl. ca. 1540-1550
Germany, 1543. 60 x 44 mm (2- 5/16" x 1-11/16"). On laid paper. With date "1543" printed above artist's monogram "MT" at upper left corner and number "I" printed to upper right corner. A very good impression with thread margins. Holstein 14 (this state only). The present engraving belongs to a series depicting dancers and musicians at a wedding. Little is known about the artist except that he belongs to the second generation of "Little Masters," German artists... Read More
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Friedrich Auguste Böhme, R.S. Musikdirektor und Posannen Konig zu Dresden. Original drawing executed in pencil, black chalk, and colored washes
by [TROMBONE - German - 19th Century]. Alvensleben, Oscar von 1831-1903
300 x 204 mm. Signed "O.v. Alv." and dated 18 April [18]76. On light blue paper with watermark 'G.G." The subject is depicted three-quarter length in military dress, holding a top hat in his left hand and a cigar in his right. His first finger points up towards a small drawing of a musical staff with a trombone and several musical notes. Alvensleben was a German artist working in Dresden where he studied at the Kunstakademie. The... Read More
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The Comic Intermezzo: A Study in the History of Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera
by TROY, Charles E.
Ann Arbor: UMI, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. xvi, 242 pp. With numerous musical examples.
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