No, no, no, no, no I'le straigt run Mad. Plate 64 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by [ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century]
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass. Signed in the plate by the engraver. G. Bickham junr. Ca 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; slight dampstaining. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739. BUC p. 107. RISM BII p. 245. ... Read More
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The Judgement of Paris. Plate 69 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by [ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century]
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass with a separate part for flute. Signed in the plate by the engraver, G. Bickham. Ca 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; minor soiling and dampstaining. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739. BUC p.... Read More
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The Dispute of the Gods Decided by Venus. Plate 55 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by [ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century]
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass with a separate part for flute. Signed in the plate by the engraver, G. Bickham junr. Ca 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; minor soiling and dampstaining. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739. BUC... Read More
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The Delirious Lady. Plate 61 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by [ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century]
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass. Published according to Act of Parliament October 5 1737. Signed in the plate by the engraver, G. Bickham Jun. Ca 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; small stains. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739.... Read More
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Myrtillo, Or the Despairing Swain. To the Rt. Honble. the Lord Delawar, this Cantata is most humbly inscrib'd. Plates 25-28 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by [ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century]
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 4 leaves, with large elaborate vignettes to heads illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass. Ca. 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]; ca. 392 x 247 mm. (15.45" x 9.75") [sheet size]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; minor soiling and dampstaining; inner edges slightly frayed; small tears to edges. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in 1737-1739.... Read More
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The Fly. Plate 60 from George Bickham's The Musical Entertainer
by [ENGLISH ILLUSTRATED VOCAL MUSIC - 18th Century]
London, 1740. Unbound. Very Good. 1 leaf, with a large elaborate vignette to head illustrating the song with music and text below set for voice and figured bass with a separate part for flute. Signed in the plate by the engraver, G. Bickham jun. Ca 326 x 200 mm. (12.75" x 7.85") [plate mark]. Slightly worn; minor browning to edges; minor soiling and dampstaining; slightly foxed. From the second edition of Bickham's monumental work, first published in... Read More
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Le Bal Paré A Monsieur de Villemorien Fils. Etching and engraving by L. Provost after the drawing by Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807)
by [FRANCE - 18th Century]
Paris, [19th century]. 324 x 445 mm. + wide margins. The print depicts an elegant large room in the Villemorien home. Four couples are oerforming a social dance in the center of the image while an orchestra plays in an elevated area at left rear; ladies and gentlemen are engaged in conversation in both the fore- and background. Five large chandeliers hang from the ceiling with candle-lit sconces adorning the walls. One of a pair of engravings,... Read More
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Bound volume of 19th century Italian operatic excerpts in piano-vocal score, most Neapolitan imprints and associated with contemporary performances
by [ITALIAN OPERA - 19th century]
Includes works of Battista (5), Donizetti (6), Mercadante (7), Pacini (1), Petrella (1) and Verdi (1). With contemporary mansucript index to front free endpaper. Contents: BATTISTA, Vincenzio 1823-1873 Ermelinda Dramma lirico in Quattro Atti di Domenico Bolognese. Monaco: Orlando e C. [after 1850]. - Duetto Signor Capitano. PN 599. 19 pp. - Coro alla danza. PN 600. 14 pp. - Terzettino Febo ei vieni. PN 606. 8 pp. - No. 13. Scena e Romanza.... Read More
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Set of three large engravings of emblematic portraits of 125 composers, performers, and music theorists by Luigi Scotti
by MUSIC ICONOGRAPHY - Early 19th Century]
Firenze: La Societa Rainaldi, 1807. Each print features small circular engraved portraits and includes mythological elements at the upper portion amongst clouds and rays of sunlight, with a background of a rocky outcrop including elements including vegetation and a running stream. The scenes evoke the celestial qualities of music and a reverence for the musicians depicted. On good quality laid paper, sheet size 695 x 505 mm; plate impression 650 x 365 mm. Plate [1] With... Read More
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A Catalogue of New Music, published this year
by [MUSIC PUBLISHER'S CATALOGUE - English - 18th Century]
London: Samuel, Ann, and Peter Thompson, (No. 75) St. Paul's Church Yard, And may be had at most Music Shops and Booksellers in Town and Country, 1789. Folio. Disbound. 4 pp. Contains announcements of newly-published "Dances and Minuets for the Year ensuing; Vocal Music, &c.; Psalmodia Evangelica; New Editions of the following Music; New Editions of Instruction Books and Pocket Companions for the following Instruments," and announcements of publications forthcoming in December. Slightly worn and browned;... Read More
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Bound volume containing one complete opera (Pacini's Merope) together with separately-issued operatic selections arranged for piano solo
by [OPERA - Italian - 19th Century]
Girard: Naples, 1838. Oblong quarto. Contemporary quarter dark brown calf with green textured paper boards, decorative dark brown leather label to upper with "Costanza Angelillo" gilt, spine in decorative compartments gilt. Occasional secondary pagination. Contains: Pacini, Giovanni 1796-1867 Merope Grand Opera ... arrangé pour Piano solo. [PNs 8867-8879]. Ca. 1848. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [1] (list of subscribers as of 24 December 1847) + 18 numbers in piano score with occasional text. Subscribers include Filippo Angelillo, in... Read More
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![Briséïs Drame en Trois Actes ... Ephraïm Michaël & Catulle Mendès ... Partition Piano et Chant Réduite par l'Auteur Prix net: 10 Francs. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/139/385/1126385139.0.l.jpg)
Briséïs Drame en Trois Actes ... Ephraïm Michaël & Catulle Mendès ... Partition Piano et Chant Réduite par l'Auteur Prix net: 10 Francs. [Piano-vocal score]
by CHABRIER, Emmanuel 1841-1894
Paris: Enoch & Cie. [PN E. & C. 2006], 1899. Large octavo. Quarter mid-brown morocco with marbled boards, raised bands on spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto half title, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performance and named cast list, verso copyright statement), 1f. (recto contents, verso printer's note), 124 pp. Named cast list 1897 performance includes Engel, Ghasne, Nicolaou, Chrétien-Vaguet, and Éléanore Blanc and for... Read More
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![Judith Lyric Drama for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra Text by William Chauncy Langdon. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/842/101/909101842.0.l.jpg)
Judith Lyric Drama for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra Text by William Chauncy Langdon. [Piano-vocal score]
by CHADWICK, George W. 1854-1931
New York: G. Schirmer [PN 15555], 1901. Octavo. Flexible full dark red cloth boards with gilt titling to upper and label to spine. [i] (title), [i] (copyright), [I] (characters), [II] (blank), III-XIII (text), [i] (index), 176 pp. With performance markings throughout in pencil and blue crayon. Boards slightly worn and rubbed; upper joint split. First Edition. Chadwick, an American composer, teacher, conductor, pianist and organist, "was a leading figure of the Second School of New... Read More
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40,000 Years of Music: Man in Search of Music ... Translated from the French by Rollo Myers With a Preface by Virgil Thomson
by CHAILLEY, Jacques
London: Macdonald, 1964. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto. Full red cloth with titling gilt to spine. 229 pp. With occasional illustrations and musical examples in text + illustrative plates. In dustjacket.
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Musique et Poésie au XVIᵉ Siècle Paris, 30 Juin - 4 Juillet 1953
by CHAILLEY, Jacques et al.
Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1954. Wrappers. 384 pp. Small signature to corner of verso of upper wrapper. Sciences Humaines Vol. 5. Papers delivered by leading international scholars at a colloquium devoted to the music and associated poetry of France, Italy, England and Spain in the 16th century.
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Summersong. Autograph sketchleaf in full score
by CHAITKIN, David 1938-2011
Folio (310 x 232 mm). 1 page. Notated in pencil on 16-stave paper on one side of a bifolium. Undated, but ca. 1981. Signed in full in blue ink. Together with: A typed letter signed from the composer to the prominent American choral conductor Harold Rosenbaum regarding both the present work and the composer's "Seasons Such as These," commenting on their significance, and hoping for more performances. Summersong (1981) for 23 wind instruments, was commissioned and premiered... Read More
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6 vintage postcard photographs of the famed Russian bass in various operatic roles by prominent German-Russian photographers including Carl Andreyevich Fischer (1859-after 1923) and Richard Thiele (1843-1911)
by CHALIAPIN, Fyodor 1873-1938
Operatic roles and photographers' information printed in Cyrillic to lower margin. 1) Full-length portrait as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust by Thiele, Moscow. 2) Three-quarter-length portrait as Dosifey in Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina by K.A. Fischer, St. Petersburg. 3) Three-quarter-length portrait as Prince Vyazminsky in Tchaikovsky's Oprichnik by V. Chekhovsky, Moscow. 4) Full-length portrait as Holofernes in Serov's Judith at the State Theatre. A. Bystrov., [?Petrograd]. Dated "March 7, 1919" in blue-green ink to verso. 5)... Read More
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![Literaturnoe nasledstvo, pis'ma [Writings, letters] Tom pervyi [Volume 1]. Includes Shaliapini [Chaliapina], N. "Vospominaniia ob ottse" [Recollections of my father]; Stat'i, vyskazyvaniia, vospominaniia o F. I Shaliapine [Articles, statements on and recollections of Chaliapin]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/649/228/1174228649.0.l.jpg)
Literaturnoe nasledstvo, pis'ma [Writings, letters] Tom pervyi [Volume 1]. Includes Shaliapini [Chaliapina], N. "Vospominaniia ob ottse" [Recollections of my father]; Stat'i, vyskazyvaniia, vospominaniia o F. I Shaliapine [Articles, statements on and recollections of Chaliapin]
by CHALIAPIN, Fyodor 1873-1938
Moscow-Leipzig: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo "Iskusstvo" (State Publishers "Art"), 1960. 2 volumes. Small quarto. Full cloth. 766, [i]; 630, [i] pp. with illustrative plates. Bindings slightly worn; hinges of Vol. I split. A collection of writings by and about the distinguished Russian bass.
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Fine original large vintage three-quarter length photograph of the distinguished Russian bass in formal dress
by CHALIAPIN, Fyodor 1873-1938
372 x 292 mm. Creased at corners, especially lower left; slightly silvered. Together with: Chaliapin's autograph signature ("F. Chaliapin 1930 M.Video") on an album leaf also signed by the noted Italian bass Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969), Montevideo 1930, 117 x 125 mm., and a program excerpt of a performance at the Metropolitan Opera of Boïto's opera Mefistofele with Chaliapin performing the lead role. "Chaliapin's international career began in 1901 at La Scala, as Boito's Mefistofele... He... Read More
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Old English Ditties, Selected from W. Chappell's "Popular Music of the Olden Time;" With a New Introduction: The Long Ballads Compressed, and Occasionally New Words Written, by J. Oxenford; The Symphonies and Accompaniments by G.A. Macfarren
by CHAPPELL, William 1809-1888
London: Chappel & Co., 50, New Bond Street, W. Also to be had of Cramer & Co., 201, Regent Street, W., 1870. Quarto. Original publisher's dark green cloth with titling gilt within decorative blindstamped border, titling to spine gilt, light yellow endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso printer's note), [iii]-xiii, [iv] (Index to Vol. I), 2-241, [i] (printer's note) pp. With a signed autograph inscription "To Mrs. Ginsburg from Wm. Chappell" to upper outer corner of title. ... Read More
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Old English Popular Music ... A New Edition with a Preface and Notes, and the Earlier Examples Entirely Revised by H. Ellis Wooldridge
by CHAPPELL, William
London, New York: Chappell, Macmillan, 1893. Hardcover. Fair. 2 volumes. Large octavo. Full dark blue cloth with decorative device gilt to uppers, titling gilt to spines. 334; 220 pp. Bindings worn, rubbed, and bumped; hinges split; former owner's stamp and signature to front endpapers.
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![La Vie du Poète Symphonie-Drame en Trois Actes et Quatre Tableaux ... Partition Chant et Piano Prix: 15 f. Net. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/136/385/1126385136.0.l.jpg)
La Vie du Poète Symphonie-Drame en Trois Actes et Quatre Tableaux ... Partition Chant et Piano Prix: 15 f. Net. [Piano-vocal score]
by CHARPENTIER, Gustave 1860-1956
Paris: Choudens Fils [PN A.C. 8922], 1892. Large octavo. Quarter grey cloth with marbled boards, manuscript titling to spine. 1f. (recto decorative title, verso blank), 1f. (recto dedication, verso blank), 1f. (recto cast list and list of acts, verso blank), [xi] (libretto), [i] (blank), 1f. (recto notes on first performances, named cast lists, and contents, verso blank), 147, [i] (blank) pp. Named cast for the Conservatoire National performance includes Tarquini d'Or, Cossira, Grimaud, and Wyns and for the... Read More
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![Louise Roman Musical en Quatre Actes et Cinq Tableaux ... Partition piano et chant. Prix net: 20 francs. [Piano-vocal score]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/396/706/1424706396.0.l.jpg)
Louise Roman Musical en Quatre Actes et Cinq Tableaux ... Partition piano et chant. Prix net: 20 francs. [Piano-vocal score]
by CHARPENTIER, Gustave 1860-1956
Paris: Heugel & Cie. [PN. H. et Cie. 19,659], 1915. Large octavo. Quarter mid-tan calf with marbled boards, spine in decorative compartments gilt, titling gilt, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto dedication to Carré, verso blank), 1f. (recto title printed within red-ruled border, verso publisher's note), [i] (named cast list), [ii] (contents), [i] (blank), 410 pp. Binding worn, rubbed, and bumped; spine torn and mostly lacking; boards and free front endpaper detached. Edges slightly browned; small publisher's handstamp to... Read More
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![Portrait caricature by Aroun-al-Rascid [pseud. Umberto Brunelleschi] (1879-1949)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/038/886/756886038.0.l.jpg)
Portrait caricature by Aroun-al-Rascid [pseud. Umberto Brunelleschi] (1879-1949)
by CHARPENTIER, Gustave 1860-1956
Colour photo-mechanical portrait printed in tones of sepia, red, black and tan with short textual addition below portrait. Published in the satiric journal L'Assiette au Beurre in 1902. Sheet size 313 x 241 mm. With portrait of the French composer Theodore Dubois (1837-1924) to verso. Fine impression on tan wove paper. Slightly worn, browned and brittle; very minor chipping to edges.
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Newly Discovered Music Manuscripts from the Private Collection of Emil Bohn
by CHARTERIS, Richard
Holzerlingen: Hänssler Verlag, 1999. Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. Publisher's boards. 337 pp. Musicological Studies & Documents 53, the American Institute of Musicology.
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