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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Musiciens de la Chapelle. M. l'Abbé Loup. M. Montaugibet, premier Trompette. aiv: Ah! le bel oiseau maman. Lithograph by Benard after Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers depicting a rather large gentleman in formal dress, half-length, playing a tiny toy trumpet, music in hand
by [TRUMPET]
[Paris]: Aubert ... Jd. la caricatur, Galerie véro dodat, 1835. 230 x 135 mm. Signed with initials in the stone. On wove paper. Text to verso. Slightly worn, browned and soiled; light horizontal crease; small circular handstamp to blank upper right corner. Traviès de Villers (1804-1859) was a contemporary and colleague of Daumier. This caricature was originally published in Le Charivari, an illustrated magazine published in Paris from 1832 to 1937 specializing in political cartoons, reviews, and satires.... Read More
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![Suite pour grand Orchestre tirée de la partition du ballet Casse-Noisette (Der Nussknacker ... Op. 71a ... Pour Piano à 2 mains par l'auteur Pr. M 6. [Piano score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/991/603/1769603991.0.l.jpg)
Suite pour grand Orchestre tirée de la partition du ballet Casse-Noisette (Der Nussknacker ... Op. 71a ... Pour Piano à 2 mains par l'auteur Pr. M 6. [Piano score]
by TSCHAIKOVSKY, Pyotr Il'ych 1840-1893
Hamburg & Leipzig: D. Rahter [PN 854], 1897. Folio. Unbound 1f. (recto title printed in green, verso blank), 3-39, [i] (publisher's catalogue) pp. Jürgenson in Moskau and Mackar & Noel in Paris noted as distributors at foot of title. Small circular handstamp of Novello music publishers to blank lower margin of title. Early edition of the Nutcracker suite arranged for piano solo.
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Bluebird, a setting of Herman Melville's poem for two female voices with instrumental accompaniment. Autograph musical manuscript. Signed and dated 2007. A complete working draft
by TSONTAKIS, George b. 1951
5 pp. Folio (355 x 280 mm.). Notated in pencil with additional markings in colored ink. Signed and dated 2007. Tsontakis studied with Hugo Weisgall, Felix Greissle, and Roger Sessions. His honours include the Charles Ives Living Award, the Grawemeyer, two Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards (1989, 1992), a lifetime achievement award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1995), a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, (1996) and numerous commissions. "[His] early works are written in a dissonant chromatic idiom... Read More
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Fine etching, drypoint, and aquatint entitled "Teutophone: Souvenir d'Huningue 92." By French artist Louis Legrand (1863-1941)
by [TUBA]
[Paris], 1892. 278 x 245 mm. + wide margins, sheet size 482 x 320 mm. Printed on simili-japon. a fine impression. The instrument depicted is possibly an E-flat tenor horn rather than a tuba. A young girl carries a very large beer stein in the foreground. Legrand , a contemporary of both Toulouse Lautrec and Félicien Rops, is known for his etchings depicting Parisian life, particularly dancers.
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Charming drawing of a tuba player by the French artist Edmond Couturier (1871-1903). The subject, wearing a boater, is sitting on a bench inside what might be a music hall playing a tuba. Late 19th-early 20th century
by [TUBA]
Black and red crayon on heavy light brown wove paper. 259 x 169 mm., with lower portion of sheet extended slightly (25 mm.) to accommodate the player's foot. Signed by the artist with a single initial. Cut down from a larger sheet. An attractive drawing.
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John Tucke: A Case Study in Early Music Theory
by [TUCKE]. Woodley, Ronald
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Boards. 64 pp. Illustrated.
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The Golden Age of Opera with photographs of Herman Mishkin. Foreword by Anthony A. Bliss
by TUGGLE, Robert
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Boards. 246 pp. Illustrated. Lower edges of boards and dustjacket stained.
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![Operatic selections and dance tunes for one and two melody instruments [?violins]. [Copyist manuscript]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/956/603/1769603956.0.l.jpg)
Operatic selections and dance tunes for one and two melody instruments [?violins]. [Copyist manuscript]
by [MANUSCRIPT - 19th Century - English - Operatic Selections & Dance Tunes]
1850. Folio (246 x 293 mm). Contemporary plain brown wrappers with octagonal paper label to upper titled "Music Miscellaneous Piece." Notated on 12-stave rastrum-ruled paper. 26 pp. + 2ff. (blank). Contains operatic and dance numbers by composers including Auber, Bellini, Cimarosa, Donizetti, Handel, Mozart, Verdi, et al. scored for solo violin and duo violins in score: Polka Militaire (Canthel), La Fugitive Valsa (Jullien), Air in Don Giovanni (Mozart), Round about the Maypole (Arne), The Patriots Welcome (Russell),... Read More
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![[Op. 31]. Jardins d'Andalousie Suite pour Piano](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/822/186/1362186822.0.l.jpg)
[Op. 31]. Jardins d'Andalousie Suite pour Piano
by TURINA, Joaquín 1882-1949
Paris: Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [R.L. PN 11516 (1)-(3) et Cie.], 1924. Folio. Original publisher's sepia wrappers with titling to upper, publisher's advertisment to verso of lower ("Oeuvres de J. Turina"). 28 pp. With "Paris, Imp. Mounot" and "Leon Grandjean Grav.") printed to foot of final page of music. Ex libris the American concert pianist Mario Feninger (1923-2016), with his initials to head of title. Wrappers womewhat worn, soiled, and stained, with minor tears to edges.... Read More
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Anweisung zum Generalbassspielen ... Dritte, verbesserte Auflage
by TÜRK, Daniel Gottlob 1750-1813
Halle: Hemmerde und Schwetschke, 1816. Octavo. Contemporary marbled boards. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), x (foreword), 390 pp. With numerous musical examples. Small ownership signature "G.M. Klein" to title; contemporary manuscript note to free front endpaper regarding cost of book and binding; notes to recto of free rear endpaper regarding Greek modes. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Light uniform browning. In very good condition overall. Third edition, revised. Turk, a German theorist and... Read More
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Von den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten. Ein Beytrag zur Verbesserung der musikalischen Liturgie
by TÜRK, Daniel Gottlob 1750-1813
Halle ... Leipzig: auf Kosten des Verfassers; in kommission bey Schwickert zu Leipzig, und in der Hemmerdeschen Buchhandlung zu Halle, 1787. Octavo. Half mid-tan calf with marbled boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt with dark orange and dark purple title labels gilt, red edges. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [3]-211 (text), [212] ("Nacherinnerung"), 213-240 pp. typeset music. With small handstamps in purple ink to title, one "Geschenkt von Herrn Prof, Stöbe," one a withdrawal stamp from the Stadtbibliothek... Read More
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The Opera Gazetteer
by TURNBULL, Robert
New York: Rizzoli, 1988. Octavo. Boards. 240 pp. In dustjacket. Inscription to front free endpaper.
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Studien zur Deutschen Generalbasspraxis in der Ersten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts
by ULRICH, Ernst
Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1932. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Wrappers. 82 pp. text + 26 pp. musical examples.
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Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages
by UPTON, Elizabeth Randell
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Boards. xvi, 231 pp. From the collection of musicologist Stanley Boorman and with his occasional penciled notations.
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Musical Pastels. With Illustrations from Rare Prints and Facsimiles
by UPTON, George P.
Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1902. Hardcover. Good. Large octavo. Boards. 213 pp. Illustrated. Binding worn; joints splitting. Outer edges browned.
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![Vieux Garçons! Opéra-Comique en un acte Poème de Michel Carré ... [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/372/763/1027763372.0.l.jpg)
Vieux Garçons! Opéra-Comique en un acte Poème de Michel Carré ... [Piano-vocal score]
by URGEL, Louis [Legru, Louise] d. 1942
Paris: Editions Max Eschig [PN M.E. 3180], 1931. Folio. Original publisher's dark ivory wrappers printed in red. 1f. (title), 1f. (dedication to Georges Bravard, director of the Théâtre de la Gaîte Lyrique), 1f. (named cast list for the first performance), 86 pp. Named cast includes Cartin, Descombes, G. Moureau, Montigny, Corney, and J. Raymond. Margins of several leaves handstamped "Jane Gatineau" (1893-199-?), most probably the "artiste lyrique" at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, and poet and... Read More
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Handbuch der Chormusik Band I [-II]
by VALENTIN, Erich
Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes. Small quarto. Full black cloth with decorative design gilt to uppers, titling to spines gilt. 645; 525 + publisher's advertisements. Slightly browned; minor foxing to endpapers. In slightly worn dustjacket.
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![Autograph letter signed in full to impresario [Charles?] Wagner](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/361/739/914739361.0.l.jpg)
Autograph letter signed in full to impresario [Charles?] Wagner
by VALLIN, Ninon 1886-1961
2 pp. Quarto. Dated Lyon, March 19, 1926. In black ink on lavender paper. In French (with translation). Vallin needs the orchestral score for a Pergolesi aria, and believes that the "Association" may procure it without inconvenience. She notes that she cannot do a rehearsal in full voice on April 1, the date when she will sing Louise at the Opéra-Comique. "I have the orchestral score for the aria from Messiah (And You Zion) by Handel,... Read More
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![Concerte[!] pour Le Forte Piano, ou Clavecin â Deux Violons 2 Obois 2 Cors Tallie[!], et Basse. [Piano part only]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/001/604/1769604001.0.l.jpg)
Concerte[!] pour Le Forte Piano, ou Clavecin â Deux Violons 2 Obois 2 Cors Tallie[!], et Basse. [Piano part only]
by VANHAL, Johan Baptist 1739-1813
Vienne: au Magazin de Musique du Mr. Hoffmeister, 1785. Oblong folio. Sewn. [i] (title), 2-23, [i] (blank) pp. Engraved throughout. Slightly worn; some moderate staining to blank margins of title; occasional small stains and minor soiling and foxing to blank outer margin. First Edition. OCLC 1104858831. RISM V353 and VV353 (one copy only in the U.S., at the Library of Congress). Vanhal was a Bohemian composer, violinist, and teacher, active in present-day Austria and Croatia. "His... Read More
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![La Fille de Fanchon la Vielleuse Opéra-Comique en 4 Actes de Liorat, Busnach & Fonteny ... transcrite par Marius Baggers. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/456/647/1417647456.0.l.jpg)
La Fille de Fanchon la Vielleuse Opéra-Comique en 4 Actes de Liorat, Busnach & Fonteny ... transcrite par Marius Baggers. [Piano-vocal score]
by VARNEY, Louis 1844-1908
Paris: Choudens Fils [PN A.C. 8659], 1891. Large octavo. Quarter mid-blue leather with marbled boards, decorative spine gilt, marbled endpapers, original publisher's dark ivory wrappers illustrated by E. Buval bound in. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents, verso blank), 243, [i] (blank) pp. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. First Edition, later issue.
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![La Femme de Narcisse Opérette en 3 Actes de Fabrice Carré. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/445/647/1417647445.0.l.jpg)
La Femme de Narcisse Opérette en 3 Actes de Fabrice Carré. [Piano-vocal score]
by VARNEY, Louis 1844-1908
Paris: Choudens Fils [PN A.C. 8845], 1892. Large octavo. Quarter dark brown calf with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine and upper, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), [i] (notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents), 2-161, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Simon-Girard, Diony, V. Rolland, Berthelot, and M. Musset, and Huguenet, Simon-Max, Barral, and Regnard. Binding slightly worn, rubbed, and bumped. Some signatures split; manuscript notation... Read More
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![La Belle Epicière Opérette En Trois Actes de Pierre Decourcelle et Kéroul. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/067/788/1418788067.0.l.jpg)
La Belle Epicière Opérette En Trois Actes de Pierre Decourcelle et Kéroul. [Piano-vocal score]
by VARNEY, Louis 1844-1908
Paris: Choudens [PN A. C. 10091], 1895. Large octavo. Quarter mid-tan leather with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents, verso blank), 188 pp. Named cast includes Huguenet, Lamy, Barral, Bellucci, Schey, Barré, simon-Girard, Rosine Maurel, Dziri, and Ryter, with M. Baggers, conductor, and Belval, general manager. Binding slightly worn; spine lacking and reinforced with brown tape; hinges split; endpapers browned and... Read More
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![Les Petits Mousquetaires Opéra Comique en 3 actes et 5 Talbeaux de P. Ferrier et J. Préval ... Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques ... Partition Chant et Piano transcrite par L. Roques. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/671/789/1418789671.0.l.jpg)
Les Petits Mousquetaires Opéra Comique en 3 actes et 5 Talbeaux de P. Ferrier et J. Préval ... Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques ... Partition Chant et Piano transcrite par L. Roques. [Piano-vocal score]
by VARNEY, Louis 1844-1908
Paris: Choudens Père & Fils [PN A.C. 6523], 1885. Large octavo. 1f. (recto title within decorative lithographic title by L. Denis, verso notes), 1f. (recto dedication, verso notes on first performance, named cast list, and contents), 179, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast includes Marguerite Ugalde, Jeanne Andrée, Gobin, Simon-Max, Tony-Riom, Montaubry, Riga, Desclauzan, Savary, Delausnay, Péricaud, Paul Ginet, Duhamel, and Gildès. Wrappers lacking; spine reinforced with maroon cloth tape. Browned; minor foxing; Barcelona musicseller's handstamp to lower... Read More
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