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1169   KALDOR, Andras. OPERA HOUSES OF EUROPE. Antique Collectors' Club (1996) pp127 architectural paintings with text Books//Books £25.00
1170   WEAVER, William. THE GOLDEN CENTURY OF ITALIAN OPERA from Rossini to Puccini. Thames and Hudson (1980) pp256 d/w Books//Books £15.00
1171   VERDI, Giuseppe. LA TRAVIATA. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Story Adaptation by Mary McCarthy. The Metropolitan Opera Classics Library. USA (1983) p/b pp202 Books//Books £8.00
383 47 POPULAR SCOTTISH SONGS arr. Miller. Kerr (1913) pp52 Songbooks £6.00
2757 ABBOTT, Elisabeth MEMOIRS OF LORENZO DA PONTE (Mozart's librettist) Translated by Elisabeth Abbott. Edited and annotated by Arthur Livingston. With a new Preface by Thomas G. Bergin. Dover (1967) (laminated wraps) pp512 (owners' inscriptions on fep) Books//Books £7.00
1314 ABRAHAM, Gerald (General Editor) THE HISTORY OF MUSIC IN SOUND. General Editor : Gerald Abraham. OUP with HMV (college stamps) :

Volume I : Ancient and Oriental Music edited by Egon Wellesz (1957/1961reprint) pp41
Volume II. Early Medieval Music up to 1300 ed. Dom Anselm Hughes (1953/ 1960 2nd ed.) pp69
Volume III. ...
Books//Books £5.00
1 ANDERSON, James DICTIONARY OF OPERA AND OPERETTA. Columbia (1994) Books//Books £10.00
2538 ANDREWS, H.K. THE OXFORD HARMONY Volume II. OUP (1950) pp241 Books//Books £10.00
1313 ARNOLD, Denis (General Editor) THE NEW OXFORD COMPANION TO MUSIC. VOLUME TWO K - Z only OUP (1983) pp2017 d/w (college stamps) Books//Books £7.00
2534 ARUNDELL, Dennis HENRY PURCELL. OUP (1927) pp136 Books//Books £15.00
1266 AYLWARD, Florence FLOWER SONGS (Medium) : Lilies and Roses; Cowslip Bells; Wood Anemones; Snowdrops. Collard Moutrie (1919) pp15 Songbooks £4.00
1346 BACH THE ORGAN WORKS OF BACH by Harvey Grace with an Introduction by Ernest Newman. Novello (1922) pp319, college stamps on edge, and inside, d/w worn ow good Books//Books £6.00
1344 BACH, J.S. J.S.BACH by Albert Schweitzer. Translated by Ernest Newman. Preface by C.M.Widor. Volume I with 3 Plates. A & C Black (1947 reprint) pp428, ex-college lib. Books//Books £6.00
1334 BACH, J.S. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH. Described and depicted by Hendrik Willem Van Loon. Harrap (April 1945 reprin) pp103 h/b Books//Books £5.00
4 BACH, John Sebastian Green cloth worn & marked, spine blotchy. 303pp. Masters of Music by Rutland Boughton. Kegan Paul (1930) Books//Books £5.00
2 BACHARACH, A.L.(Ed.) BRITISH MUSIC OF OUR TIME Pelican pb (1946) stapled down spine from inside cover front to back Books//Books £3.00
3 BACHARACH, A.L.(Ed.) LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS. Dutton, New York (1936) Books//Books £3.00
1398 BAILEY, Eunice DISCOVERING MUSIC WITH YOUNG CHILDREN. Methuen (1961 reprint) pp119, d/w Books//Books £4.00
1464 BAINES, Anthony WOODWIND INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR HISTORY with a foreword by Sir Adrian Boult. Faber and Faber (1957) h/b (d/w worn) pp382 Books//Books £15.00
7 BAKER, Richard COMPANION TO MUSIC. BBC (1993) pp208 d/w Books//Books £12.00
1433 BARING GOULD, S and SHARP, Cecil L. ENGLISH FOLK-SONGS FOR SCHOOLS c.1956. Vocal Edition, Both Notations. Curwen Edition 6051 (20 available) Songbooks £6.00
8 BARTOK by Paul Griffiths. The Master Musicians. Dent p/b (1988) inscribed Books//Books £4.50
172 BARTOK By Hamish Milne (1987) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
1345 BARTOK, HINDEMITH, STRAVINSKY THE NEW GROVE MODERN MASTERS: BARTOK; HINDEMITH and STRAVINSKY by Vera Lampert, Laszlo Somfai, Eric Walter White, Jeremy Noble and Ian Kemp. Macmillan (1984) pp292, p/b, college stamp Books//Books £5.00
1741 BEETHOVEN BEETHOVEN THE CREATOR by Romain Rolland. Translated by Ernest Newman. Gollancz (1929) pp432 Books//Books £20.00
13 BEETHOVEN His Spiritual Development by J.W.N. Sullivan. Unwin Books (1964) paperback Books//Books £1.00
173 BEETHOVEN By Ates Orga (1983) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
12 BEETHOVEN by Marion M. Scott. Dent Master Musicians (1940). Some foxing to edges Books//Books £5.00
9 BEETHOVEN by Romain Rolland. Translated by B. Constance Hull. With a brief analysis of the sonatas, the symphonies, and the quartets by A. Eaglefield Hull. With 24musical illustrations and 4 plates and an introduction by Edward Carpenter. Red cloth, speckled 244pp. Kegan Paul (1927) Books//Books £8.00
11 BEETHOVEN AND THE ROYAL PHILARMONIC SOCIETY by John Mewburn Levien with an Introduction by Alexander C. Mackenzie. Novello pp29 (1927) Books//Books £12.00
1690 BERLIOZ A Life of Music HECTOR BERLIOZ 1803-1865. Translated & edited by David Cairns. Folio (1987) pp466 (with slipcase) Books//Books £25.00
174 BERLIOZ By Robert Clarson Leach (1987) Books//Books £6.00
14 BERLIOZ by J.H.Elliot. The Master Musicians ed. Sir Jack Westrup. Dent (1972 - revised 1967) d/w VG Books//Books £6.00
2558 BLISS, Arthur BLISS by John Sugden. The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. Omnibus (1997) pp131 laminated wraps NEW Books//Books £9.99
2531 BLOM, Eric EVERYMAN'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. Dent (1946 1st) pp706 Books//Books £10.00
15 BLYTH, Alan OPERA ON CD The essential guide to the best CD recordings of 100 operas. Kyle Cathie (1992) pp183 Books//Books £6.00
1306 BONAVIA HUNT, H.G. A CONCISE HISTORY OF MUSIC From the commencement of the Christian era. Bell (1925 24th imp.) pp184 worn Books//Books £5.00
16 BORLAND, John E. MUSICAL FOUNDATIONS. OUP (1927) pp87 Books//Books £6.00
1814 BOULT, Adrain ADRIAN BOULT (1889-1983) by Mich'l Kennedy. Hamish Hamilton (1987) pp342 h/b with d/w VG Books//Books £20.00
17 BRAHMS by Peter Latham. The Master Musicians ed. Sir Jack Westrup. Dent (1975 last revised) d/w VG Books//Books £6.00
18 BRAHMS in 2 Vols by Florence May. Paganiniana U.S.A (1905, 2nd ed. reprint 1981) pp699 h/b with portriat od composer on laminated boards Books//Books £25.00
19 BRAHMS by Jeffrey Pulver. Masters of Music ED. Sir Landon Ronald. Light green cloth faded and speckled. Kegan Paul (1933 Popular ed.) Books//Books £5.00
22 BRITTEN Masters of Music by Percy M.Young. Benn (1966) pp68 VG Books//Books £8.00
20 BRITTEN by Mich'l Kennedy. Dent The Master Musicians (a) Hardback (1981) with d/w pp356 VG Books//Books £12.00
23 BRITTEN, Benjamin PETER GRIMES. Sadler's Wells Opera Books No.3 Ed. Eric Crozier. Essays by Benjamin Britten, E.M.Forster, Montagu Slater, Edward Sackville-West. Designs by Kenneth Green. Lane pp55 Books//Books £4.00
2559 BRITTEN, Benjamin BRITTEN by Christopher Headington. The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. Omnibus (1996) pp152 laminated wraps NEW Books//Books £8.95
1321 BRITTEN, Benjamin and HOLST, Imogen THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MUSIC. Garden City Books, New York (1958) pp68 decorated boards, sl. dent mid-spine, ow good Books//Books £5.00
1328 BRITTEN, Benjamin by EVANS, Peter THE MUSIC OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN. Dent (1979) pp564 d/w worn, discreet college stamps Books//Books £10.00
1399 BROCKLEHURST, Brian M.A., D.Mus. RESPONSE TO MUSIC Principles of Music Education. Routledge & Kegan (1971) pp141, p/b Books//Books £4.00
24 BROOKE-BALL, Peter DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. Geddes & Grosset (1992) pp288 Books//Books £6.00
25 BROWER, Harriette SHORT-LIVES OF MASTER MUSICIANS. Harrap (1925 1st) Books//Books £8.00
1461 BRUXNER, Mervyn THE ORCHESTRA. Illustrated by Thomas B. Pitfield. The Young Reader's Guides to Music (IV). OUP (1975 reprint) h/b with d/w pp56 (2 copies) Books//Books £3.00
2987 Burgess, Muriel & Keen, Tommy GRACIE FIELDS. Allen (1980) pp125, , good d/w Books//Books £10.00
2299 BURNEY, Charles MUSIC, MEN AND MANNERS IN FRANCE AND ITALY 1770. Eulenburg Books (1974) pp245 (Originally published by the Folio Society in 1969) Books//Books £15.00
1668 BURNS Fifty Selected Songs of Burns. Mozart Allan, Glasgow pp94 (undated modern edition) laminated wraps Songbooks £6.50
1661 CALLAS, Maria CALLAS Her life, Her loves, Her music by Anne Edwards. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2001) pp342 NEW Books//Books £25.00
376 CAMPBELL CONNELLY'S 41st SONG AND DANCE ALBUM (1955) Songbooks £2.00
377 CAMPBELL CONNELLY'S 44th SONG AND DANCE ALBUM (1960) Songbooks £2.00
375 CAMPBELL CONNELLY'S ALBUM OF FAMOUS WALTZ SONGS (1944) Songbooks £2.00
1407 CAREERS IN MUSIC A HANDBOOK ON CAREERS IN MUSIC Launhed by Geoffrey Pattie M.P. Music Advisors' National Association (1986) pp98 (college stamps), p/b Books//Books £3.00
2556 CARSE, Adam THE LIFE OF JULLIEN Adventurer, Showman-Conductor and Establisher of the Promenade Concerts in England, together with a history of those concerts up to 1895. Heffer (1951) h/b without d/w pp136 (some wear and fading to boards, ow good) Books//Books £35.00
2685 CHILDREN'S CHOICE ALBUM Campbell Connelly's CHILDREN'S CHOICE ALBUM ((1953) pp27 Songbooks £6.00
30 CHOPIN CHOPIN'S LETTERS Collected by Henryk Opienski. Translated from the original Polish and French with a Preface and Editorial notes by E.L.Voynich. U.S.A. Harmsworth (1932) pp420 VG Books//Books £12.00
27 CHOPIN by J.Cuthbert Hadden. The Master Musicians, Dent (1903) pp248 Books//Books £15.00
28 CHOPIN by Arthur Hedley. The Master Musicians ed. Blom. Dent (1953 3rd imp.) pp214 d/w, VG Books//Books £6.00
31 CHOPIN A Day With by M.C.Gillington (5 colour plates by Norman Price). Hodder & Stoughton pp47 Books//Books £5.00
29 CHOPIN, Frederic By Wakeling Dry. The Music of the Masters. Bodley Head (1926 1st) Books//Books £5.00
1535 CLAY, Isobel THE LAND OF LAUGHTER. Six Songs for Children. Holmes (1923) pp8 Songbooks £4.00
2704 COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, S GENIUS AND MUSICIAN A Memory Sketch or Personal Reminiscences of My Husband (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 1875-1912) pp76. With an Appendix of Works by J.H. Smither Jackson. With photos. and facsimile autograph and manuscripts. Hardboards, quarto : with photo. of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on front, and f. ...
Books//Books £40.00
34 COLLES, H.C. THE GROWTH OF MUSIC. A Study in Musical History for Schools. Part 1 From the Troubadours to J.S.Bach. Clarendon (1923) pp192 Books//Books £8.00
1770 COMMUNITY SINGING Communityland No.1. Grand Selection of Old Favourite Songs siutable for Community Singing. Feldman (1927) pp7 (worn) Songbooks £3.00
33 COMPACT DISCS AND CASSETTES PENGUIN GUIDE COMPACT DISCS AND CASSETTES PENGUIN GUIDE. New Edition (1992) pp1348 Books//Books £12.00
394 Companion Volume: OLD SCOTTISH DITTIES The Symphonies and Accompaniments by G.A. Macfarren. New edition, revised by the arranger. Chappell pp241 (undated), brown decorated boards with gilt tooling Songbooks £15.00
2024 CONCERT PARTY ALBUM THE WONDER CONCERT PARTY ALBUM. Reeder & Walsh Mascot Album : Book Six (1925) pp47 Songbooks £5.00
2543 COOKE, Deryck GUSTAV MAHLER An Introduction to his Music. Faber (1980) p/b pp127 Books//Books £6.50
2613 COVENT GARDEN BOOKS 7 COVENT GARDEN BOOKS : Number Seven pp60 1st July 1950 - 7th January 1954 (includes GLORIANA and BILLY BUDD by Britten) Books//Books £15.00
1315 CRIPPS, Colin POPULAR MUSIC In the 20th Century. Edited by Roy Bennett and Mich'l Burnett. Cambridge Assignments in Music. Cambridge University Press (1988) pp90 softback (college stamp) Books//Books £5.00
38 CROSS, Milton and EWEN, David MILTON CROSS' ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS AND THEIR MUSIC. New, revised edition. Vols 1 (pp504) & 2 (pp505-1009: small sellotape repair to top of spine). New York, Doubleday (1962). Price for the pair Books//Books £12.00
2524 DAKERS, Lionel CHURCH MUSIC AT THE CROSSROADS A Forward Looking Guide for Today. Marshall, Morgan & Scott (1970) pp160 (d/w) Books//Books £10.00
2739 DANNREUTHER, Edward MUSICAL ORNAMENTATION. Novello and Company. Novello's Music Primers and Educational Series edited by Sir John Stainer and Sir C. Hubert H. Parry. Two Volumes in one. (Third Edition) Part I: From Diruta to J.S. Bach. 210 pages of text and music. Part II: From C. PH. E. Bach to the Present Time. 185 p ...
Books//Books £85.00
1320 DAVISON, Archibald T. and APEL, Willi HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGY OF MUSIC. Vol. I Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Music. Harvard, USA. 1946 and 1949 (Revised edition 14th Printing, 1978) pp258 (remnants of dustwrapper). Vol II Baroque, Rococo, and Pre-Classical Music (1950; 11th Printing, 1976) pp303 (worn dustwrapper)
discreet college ...
Books//Books £15.00
1311 de FALLA, Manuel DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF HIS WORKS by Ronald Crichton. Chester Music h/b (1976) pp80 (college stamps) Books//Books £15.00
40 DELIUS by Philip Heseltine. Lane pp184 (1923) Books//Books £20.00
41 DENT, Edward J. OPERA Pelican (1945 reissue) Books//Books £5.00
42 DEXTER, Harry and TOBIN, Raymond THE MUSIC LOVER'S POCKET BOOK. Evans (1958 reprint) pp160 d/w Books//Books £4.00
1330 DIMOND, Peter MA MUSIC MADE SIMPLE. Heinemann (1982) pp276 hardback, some loose pages near beginning, ex-college lib. Books//Books £3.00
44 DINN, Freda THE OBSERVER'S BOOK OF MUSIC with Illustrations by Paul Sharp. Warne (1966 reprint) pp190 Books//Books £8.00
45 DONINGTON, Robert BAROQUE MUSIC Style and Performance. A Handbook. Faber (1982) p/b Books//Books £8.00
3054 DUCHEN, Jessica ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD. Phaidon p/b (1996) pp239 (stamped : Non-mint copy) Books//Books £5.00
46 DUNSTON, Ralph MANUAL OF MUSIC. Red cloth worn, 303pp. Front fly leaf removed, title page snipped. Curwen (1904) Books//Books £4.00
49 DVORAK by Alec Robertson. Dent The Master Musicians h/b pp234 (1969 reprint) Books//Books £5.00
48 DVORAK by Alec Robertson. Dent The Master Musicians h/b pp234 1947 reprint d/w (sl. repair) Books//Books £5.00
50 DVORAK by Alec Robertson. Dent The Master Musicians h/b pp234 (1974 reprint) d/w VG Books//Books £6.00
1400 DWYER, Terence TEACHING MUSICAL APPRECIATION. OUP (1975 reprint) pp135, h/b Books//Books £5.00
2297 EARLY MUSIC EARLY MUSIC Vol. XXXIII/3 August 2005. Founded by J.M.Thomson. Editor : Tess Knighton. Oxford Journals (OUP) i-v + pp369-554 Books//Books £6.00
1781 ELGAR ELGAR. HIS LIFE AND WORKS by Basil Maine. THE WORKS vii + pp323 dark blue cloth. Bell (1933) Books//Books £20.00
1161 Elgar EDWARD ELGAR His Life and Music by Diana M. McVeagh. Dent (1955) pp260 d/w (sl. scuffed) Books//Books £10.00
56 ELGAR MY FRIENDS PICTURED WITHIN Opus 36 The subjects of the Enigma Variations as portrayed in contemporary photos. and Elgar's manuscript. Novello booklet (n/d) Books//Books £20.00
51 ELGAR HIS LIFE AND WORKS by Basil Maine. Bell pp287 (1933) Ex-Pub.Lib brown cloth VG+ Books//Books £15.00
3036 ELGAR, E. AN ELGAR COMPANION Edited by Christopher Redwood.Sequoia Publishing (1982) pp311. ISBN 0 86190 024 3 (a few neat college stamps) VG with d/w Books//Books £10.00
1786 ELGAR, E. The Elgar Society Journal

November 2004 Vol. 13, No.6
March 2005 Vol. 14, No.1
July 2005 Vol.14, No.2
November 2005 Vol. 14, No.3
March 2006 Vol. 14, No.4
£3.00 each

The Elgar Society News

No.23 - July 2004
No.24 - November 2004
No.25 - March 2005
No.26 - ...
Books//Books £3.00
54 ELGAR, Edward AN APPRECIATIVE STUDY by John F. Porte. Bookplate. Pitman (1933) Books//Books £15.00
2557 ELGAR, Edward ELGAR by Simon Mundy. The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. Revised Edition. Omnibus (1980/2001) pp224 laminated wraps NEW Books//Books £12.95
57 ELLIS, Alexander J. PRONUNCIATION FOR SINGERS.Brown cloth, back cover speckled, 246pp. Curwen (c.early 1900s) Books//Books £10.00
58 EVETTS, Edgar T. and WORTHINGTON, Robert A. THE MECHANICS OF SINGING. Green cloth, 131pp. Dent (1928) Books//Books £4.00
2513 EWEN, David THE HOME BOOK OF MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE. Arco Publications Limited (1958 reprint) pp482 Books//Books £6.00
2514 EWEN, David ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE OPERA. Calder (1956 UK edition) : 25,000 Opera Facts d/w chipped and worn pp594 Books//Books £15.00
2527 FASSETT, Agatha A re-issue of Agatha Fassett's THE NAKED FACE OF GENIUS. The last years of Bela Bartok. Gollancz (1970) pp367 d/w Books//Books £15.00
1658 FELLNER, Rudolph Opera Themes and Plots. Preface by Erich Leinsdorf. Calder (1958|) pp354
9/1/04 M. Hatchard £8.00
Books//Books £20.00
2544 FENBY, Eric MENUHIN'S HOUSE OF MUSIC. Words by Eric Fenby. Photographs by Nicholas Fisk. Icon (1969) pp140 d/w Books//Books £20.00
2537 FENBY, Eric DELIUS as I knew him. Bell (1936 1st) no d/w p234 Books//Books £50.00
2279 FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1951 : FESTIVAL SERVICE at The Royal Albert Hall, London 20th June, 1951. The Royal School of Church Music, Canterbury pp95 (blue card wraps) Books//Books £20.00
2985 FIELDS, Gracie GRACIE FIELDS Her Autobiography sing as we go. Muller (1960) pp203, good quality d/w Books//Books £10.00
2990 FIELDS, Gracie FOUR SCRAPBOOK PAGES of GRACIE FIELDS photographs Books//Books £5.00
3048 Fisher, Hugh THE SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE BALLET A Pictorial Record of the Company, its Dancers and its Ballets. Edited by Hugh Fisher with 90 Stage and Action Photographs. Black (1956) pp82 poor d/w in new library sleeve, contents good (includes PINEAPPLE POLL details and photos.) Books//Books £10.00
1981 Fraser-Simson, H. FOURTEEN SONGS from 'WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG'. Words by A.A.Milne. Decorations by E.H.Shepard. Methuen/Ascherberg, Hopwood & Crew (hardback) pp34 (a) Eleventh edition (1927) with d/w @ £35.00 (b) Thirteenth Edition (1930) @ £12.00 Songbooks £35.00
60 FREER, Dawson THE TEACHING OF INTERPRETATION IN SONG. A guide for teachers and students. Red cloth 93pp. Winthrop Rogers
n/d
Books//Books £4.00
2052 GALLATLY, James M. THE CAVENDISH THIRTEENTH CONCERT PARTY ALBUM of Concerted Numbers by H.M.Burnaby & James M. Gallatly. Cavendish Music (1932) pp35 Songbooks £6.00
2051 GALLATLY, James M. THE CAVENDISH SIXTH CONCERT PARTY ALBUM of CONCERTED NUMBERS by Charles Hayes & James M. Gallatly. Cavendish Music (1925) pp33 (cover loose) Songbooks £6.00
61 GAMMOND, Peter An Illustrated Guide to Composers of OPERA. Salamander (1980) h/b (1980) pp240 Books//Books £5.00
62 GASS, Irene MY HISTORY OF MUSIC. Illustrations by McBeath. Evans (1st 1952) Books//Books £3.00
1765 GERSHWIN The Music of Gershwin by Steven E. Gilbert. Composers of the Twentieth Century. Yale (1995) pp255 d/w Books//Books £15.00
1956 GIANT MUSIC PORTFOLIO GIANT MUSIC PORTFOLIO : pp240, 100 popular songs. The Darwen and County Gazette (East Lancashire) (pre-WWI) Songbooks £15.00
2535 GIRDLESTONE, C.M. MOZART'S PIANO CONCERTOS. Cassell (1948) pp511 d/w Books//Books £30.00
2542 GOBBI, Tito TITO GOBBI : MY LIFE. Macdonald and Jane's (1979) pp217 d/w VG Books//Books £15.00
1401 GORDON, Edwin THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MUSIC TEACHING. Prentice-Hall, USA (1971) pp138, p/b Books//Books £5.00
2274 GOSS, John GOSS' HARMONY by Sir John Goss (1800-1880) (Sullivan's harmony teacher). AN INTRODUCTION TO HARMONY AND THOROUGH-BASS with Numerous Examples and Exercises. Cramer (inscribed 1883) pp92 (green cloth with gilt lettering on cover) Books//Books £25.00
63 GOUNOD A Day With by May Baron (colour plates). Hodder & Stoughton pp48 Books//Books £6.00
1336 GRADENWITZ, Peter MUSIC AND MUSICIANS IN ISR'L. A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Isr'li Music. Illustrated. Isr'li Music Publications Ltd., Tel Aviv (1959) pp226, discreet college stamps Books//Books £15.00
2590 GREIG, John THE MUSICAL EDUCATOR A Library of Musical Instruction by Eminent Specialists edited by John Greig, MA., Mus. Doc. in Five Volumes. Edinburgh T.C. & E.C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works (all plates with tissue paper). Volume IV : board marked with cup/mug circle, ow a very FINE set (no date, but late Victorian) Books//Books £125.00
64 GRIEG A Day with Edvard Grieg by M.C.Gillington. Paintings by T.H.Robinson (5). Hodder & Stoughton (1920s) Books//Books £5.00
1828 GRIEG, Edvard EDVARD GRIEG Diaries Articles Speeches. Edited and Translated by Finn Benestad & William H. Halverson. Peer Gynt Press, Columbus, Ohio USA (2001) pp455 h/b, d/w NEW ISBN 0-9645238-3-3 (9 780964 523838) Books//Books £16.00
1310 GROVE, George (ed. E.Blom) GROVE'S DICTIONARY OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS Fifth Edition in nine volumes, 1954 - edited by Eric Blom. St. Martin's Press Inc., New York (college stamps)
ONLY SIX VOLUMES OF TEN VOLUME SET
Incomplete set (missing Vols. III; IV ; V; VII)

Volume I A - B pp1078 @ £7.00 each (or £35.00 for th ...
Books//Books £7.00
65 HADDON, J. Cuthbert (a) FAVOURITE OPERAS From Mozart to Mascagni. Their Plots, History and Music. With 24 drawings in colour by Byam Shaw. Nelson pp288 (1910) d/w @ £15.00

(b) another copy light college stamp along top edge, VG @ £10.00
Books//Books £15.00
66 HALLE A brief history of this famous British Orchestra
1858 - 1970. Pamphlet pp63. (c) Mich'l Kennedy and the Halle Concerts Society
Books//Books £3.00
71 HAMILTON, Mary A-Z of OPERA. Martini Facts on File (1990) d/w pp223 Books//Books £8.00
72 HANDEL THE LIFE OF GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL by W.S.Rockstro. Macmillan (1883 1st) 446pp Books//Books £32.00
73 HANDEL by William H. Cummings. Bell's Miniature Series of Musicians (1906) t.e.g. Books//Books £5.00
74 HANSLICK, DR. Eduard THE BEAUTIFUL IN MUSIC A contribution to the revisal of musical 'sthetics. Translated by Gustav Cohen. Maroon cloth, gilt lettering. Front fly leaf removed. 174pp. Novello 1891 (7th ed. 1885) Books//Books £8.00
2529 HARDING, James FOLIES DE PARIS The Rise and Fall of French Operetta. Chappell/Elm Tree (1979) pp183 d/w (repaired) Books//Books £18.00
75 HARTNOLL, Phyllis THE CONCISE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE THEATRE (a) (1981) pp640 p/b 5.00 (b) (1991) pp640 p/b Books//Books £8.00
2291 HARTNOLL, Phyllis (ed.) SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC A Collection of Essays by John Stevens, Charles Cudworth; Winton Dean and Roger Fiske. With a Catalogue of Musical Works. . Macmillan Papermac 177(1966) pp333 (covers unevenly faded) Books//Books £6.00
2606 HATTON, J.L. SONGS OF ENGLAND Vol. I A Collection of 200 English Melodies. Boosey & Co. pp40 red cloth Songbooks £10.00
76 HAWEIS, Rev. H.R. MUSIC AND MORALS. Daldy, Isbister & Co. (1879) pp554 dec. gilt boards Books//Books £25.00
3024 HAWEIS, Rev. H.R. MY MUSICAL LIFE. MENDELSSOHN, PAGANINI, STRADIVARIUS, LISZT, WAGNER. Longmans (1912 8th imp.) pp673 (navy cloth/front top right edge bumped) G&S Books £10.00
1755 HAYDN HAYDN. Oxford Composer Companions. Edited by David Wyn Jones. The first comprehensive guide to Haydn’s life, music, and legacy (2002) d/w pp515 NEW Books//Books £50.00
3037 HEADINGTON, Christopher OPERA. A HISTORY by Christopher Headington, Roy Westbrook, Terry Barfoot. Bodley Head (1987) pp399 (a few neat college stamps) ISBN 0-370-30889-1. VG with d/w Books//Books £7.00
1598 HERBERT, Victor THE VICTOR HERBERT ALBUM. Contents: Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life (The Dream
Melody) (1910); Kiss Me Again (1915); Gipsy Love Song (1908); When You're
Away (1914); I'm Falling in Love With Someone (1910); Italian Street Song
(1921). Feldman (1959) pp27
Songbooks £10.00
3056 HEWITT, Graham HOW TO SING. Illustrated by Shirley Bellwood. Elm Tree Books (1978) pp94 'How to Play' Series laminated wraps Books//Books £5.00
1327 HINES, Jerome THIS IS MY STORY, THIS IS MY SONG. Oliphants (1968 First British Edition) pp160 Books//Books £8.00
1721 HODGSON, Julian. HODGSON, Julian. MUSIC TITLES IN TRANSLATION a checklist of musical compositions. Bingley & Linnet (1976) h/b d/w pp370 VG Books//Books £15.00
3057 HOLD, Trevor THE WALLED-IN GARDEN The Songs of ROGER QUILTER (1877-1953). Thames1978/1996) pp63 Books//Books £5.00
2530 HOLLAND, A.K. HENRY PURCELL The Engliah Musical Tradition. Bell (1932 1st) pp248 Books//Books £10.00
77 HOLST, Imogen AN ABC OF MUSIC. Foreword by Benjamin Britten OUP (1969) Books//Books £6.00
2541 HOLST, Imogen GUSTAV HOLST With a Note by R. Vaughan Williams. OUP (1938 1st) pp200 d/w Books//Books £45.00
1337 HOPKINS, Antony TALKING ABOUT SYMPHONIES an analytical study of a number of well-known symphonies from Haydn to the present day. Heinemann (1961) pp157 h/b with worn d/w Books//Books £5.00
2300 HOPKINS, Antony TALKING ABOUT CONCERTOS : an analytical study of a number of well-known concertos from Mozart to the present day. Heinemann (1964) (hardback without d/w) pp148 Books//Books £6.00
78 HOWES, Frank FULL ORCHESTRA. Light green cloth faded, red line down front cover. 176pp. Reader's Union/ Secker & Warburg (1944) (2 copies) Books//Books £5.00
79 HUBBARD, Frank THREE CENTURIES OF HARPSICHORD MAKING. With a foreword by Ralph Kirkpatrick. Harvard (1965) Ex-Pub Lib d/w (spine faded), new endpapers VG Books//Books £20.00
2991 HUDSON, Peter GRACIE FIELDS : Her Life in Pictures. Robson (1989) - b&w photographs. ISBN 86051 603 2. VG, with VG d/w Books//Books £10.00
1338 HUGHES, Andrew MEDIEVAL MUSIC The Sixth Liberal Art. Benn (1980 Revised Edition) ) pp360 VG, college stamps on d/w, edges, and neatly within book Books//Books £25.00
1341 HUNGARIAN COMPOSERS, CONTEMPORARY CONTEMPOARY HUNGARIAN COMPOSERS (with photographs). Edito Musica Budapest (1974 Third, revised, enlarged edition) pp180, college stamps Books//Books £10.00
385 IDEAS ALBUMS OF POPULAR SONGS   Songbooks £2.00
81 ILLING, Robert A DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. Penguin (1st 1950) Rebound. Books//Books £2.00
84 JACOBS, Arthur and SADIE, Stanley THE PAN BOOK OF OPERA (1969) p/b pp492 Books//Books £4.00
85 JACOBS, Authur THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL PERFORMERS (1990) pp250 Books//Books £16.00
83 JACOBS, Authur A NEW DICTIONARY OF MUSIC. Penguin (1971) pp425 Books//Books £5.00
82 JACOBS, Authur (ed.) THE MUSIC YEAR BOOK 1972-3. National Music Council. Macmillan (1972) pp750 d/w Books//Books £6.00
86 KENNEDY, Mich'l THE HALLE 1858-1983 A History of the Orchestra. Manchester UP (1982) pp151 Books//Books £6.00
2526 KENYON, Max HARPSICHORD MUSIC. Cassell (1949 1st) pp256 Books//Books £15.00
2288 KERN Jerome JEROME KERN SOUVENIR SONG ALBUM : Look for the Silver Lining from 'Sally'; The Way You Look To-night from 'Swing Time'; Who from 'Bunny'; Two Little Bluebirds from 'Sunny'; Ka-Lu-A from 'The Cabaret Girl'; Lovely to Look at from 'Roberta'. Chappell Popular Albums (1936) pp27 Songbooks £10.00
1308 KERN, JEROME by Mich'l Freedland JEROME KERN A Biography by Mich'l Freedland. Robson (1978) pp182 d/w, VG (college stamp) Books//Books £15.00
1534 KINGSMILL, Leigh THE DONKEY-RIDE and 20 other Songs for Children. Kingsmill Ballads Vol. I. Weekes (1913) pp29 Songbooks £4.00
89 KOBBE'S ILLUSTRATED OPERA BOOK KOBBE'S ILLUSTRATED OPERA BOOK. 32 of the World's Best-loved Operas. Revised, expanded edition. The Earl of Harewood. Bodley Head (1989) d/w pp205 Books//Books £18.00
1318 LARKIN, Philip ALL WHAT JAZZ. A Record Diary 1961-68. Faber and Faber (1970 1st) pp272 d/w, VG Books//Books £120.00
1402 LAWRENCE, Ian MUSIC AND THE TEACHER. Pitman Education Library (1975) pp84, p/b Books//Books £5.00
2528 LERNER, Alan Jay THE MUSICAL THEATRE A Celebration. McGraw-Hill Book Company (1986) pp240 d/w Books//Books £28.00
1777 LEVY, Lester S. PICTURE THE SONGS. Lithographs from the Sheet Music of Nineteenth Century America. The John Hopkins University Press : Baltimore (1976) ISBN 0-8018-1814-1 d/w worn on folds pp214 Books//Books £20.00
3111 LISZT, F. FRANZ LISZT A biography in pictures by Zsigmond Laszlo & Bela Mateka. Barrie and Rockliff (1968) pp247 hardback with gilt lettering (no d/w). VG. Books//Books £25.00
2532 LISZT, F. LIFE OF CHOPIN. Translated in full for the first time by John Broadhouse. Reeves (n/d : inscription 1922) pp240 Books//Books £30.00
87 LITTLEJOHN, J.H. THE SCOTTISH MUSIC HALL 1880 - 1990. G.C. Book Publishers Ltd. (1990) pp118. Light blue boards, very clean Books//Books £25.00
2055 LONGSTAFFE, Ernest THE BUTTERFLY ALBUM FOR CONCERT PARTIES. Reynolds (1919) pp32 (cover loose) Songbooks £6.00
2053 LONGSTAFFE, Ernest THE BROADCAST ALBUM No.9 of Reynold & Co's Four Shilling Series of Concert Party Albums for Entertainers on Stage or Ether. Reynolds (1933) pp37 Songbooks £5.00
1307 LOVELOCK, William A CONCISE HISTORY OF MUSIC with drawings by Edgar Holloway. Bell (1974 reprint) pp244 as new, no d/w Books//Books £6.00
93 MACONIE, Robin THE SCIENCE OF MUSIC. 216pp Hardback d/w Clarenden Press (1997) NEW Books//Books £15.00
1477 MACPHERSON, Stewart RUDIMENTS OF MUSIC. New Edition, 1970 With a new chapter by Anthony Payne. Galliard © 1939/70 pp80 (7 copies @ £3.00 each) (neat college stamps) Books//Books £3.00
94 MACPHERSON, Stewart FORM IN MUSIC. Williams pp279 Books//Books £7.00
90 MAHLER by Mich'l Kennedy. Master Musicians. Dent (1974) pp 196 h/b d/w Books//Books £10.00
1590 MAHLER, Gustav MAHLER His Life, Work & World. Compiled and edited by Kurt and Herta Blaukopf . With contributions by Zoltan Roman. (Translated by Paul Baker etc.) With 49 illustrations. Thames and Hudson pp256 (1976) (first paperback edition 2000) Books//Books £10.00
1317 MARENZIO MARENZIO by Denis Arnold. Oxford Studies of Composers (2). OUP (1965/1974 2nd imp.) pp45 softback (college stamps) Books//Books £5.00
2533 MARKHAM LEE, E. THE STORY OF SYMPHONY. Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd. (1916 1st) pp129 Books//Books £12.00
1575 Marsh, Robert C. DIALOGUES & DISCOVERIES. James Levine His Life and His Music. Scribner (1998), hardback, d/w pp331 NEW Books//Books £17.00
96 MARZIALS, Theo PAN PIPES. A BOOK OF OLD SONGS. Newly arranged, & with accompaniments by. Set to pictures by WALTER CRANE (1845-1915). Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans. Routledge (1883) pp51. A book of rare beauty Books//Books £50.00
97 MATHEOPOULOS, Helena M'STRO Encounters with Conductors of Today (Abbado, Ashkenazy, Bernstein, Bohm etc. 23 in all). Hutchinson (1982) pp536 Books//Books £15.00
1574 MAXWELL DAVIES, Peter MAX. The Life and Music of Peter Maxwell Davies by Mike Seabrook. Gollancz (1994), hardback, d/w pp281 NEW Books//Books £20.00
99 MAY, Robin A COMPANION TO THE OPERA. Book Club (1977) d/w pp364 Books//Books £8.00
2661 McKELLAR, Kenneth KENNETH McKELLAR'S Book of Scottish Songs (51 Beauties of Scottish Song). Staff & Solfa by Andrew Mackenzie. MEDIUM VOICE. Mozart Allan, Glasgow pp64 (laminated wraps) (undated) Songbooks £8.00
100 MCSPADDEN, J. Walker OPERA SYNOPSES. A Guide to the Plots and Characters of the Standard Operas. Harrap (1922) pp336 dec. boards Books//Books £20.00
1740 McSPADDEN, J. Walker THE STORIES OF WAGNER'S OPERAS. With sixteen illustrations by Ferd. Lecke & Hermann Hendrich. Harrap (1915) pp282 cloth, gilt lettering and illustration, t.e.g. VG copy Books//Books £30.00
103 MENDELSSOHN by Philip Radcliffe. The Master Musicians. Dent pp208 (b) h/b (1976) Books//Books £10.00
104 MENDELSSOHN by Philip Radcliffe. The Master Musicians. Dent pp208 (c) p/b (1990) Books//Books £5.00
102 MENDELSSOHN by Philip Radcliffe. The Master Musicians. Dent pp208 (a) (1957 reprint) d/w, VG 6.00 Books//Books £6.00
101 MENDELSSOHN by Stephen S. Stratton. With Illustrations and Portraits. The Master Musicians. Dent (1904 2nd Imp) Books//Books £6.00
105 MENUHIN, Yehudi UNFINISHED JOURNEY (a) Macdonald and Jane's (1977 1st) pp393 Books//Books £20.00
107 MENUHIN, Yehudi UNFINISHED JOURNEY (c) Futura p/b (1978 2nd printing) autographed Books//Books £10.00
109 MENUHIN, Yehudi UNFINISHED JOURNEY (d) Futura p/b (1978) Books//Books £5.00
106 MENUHIN, Yehudi UNFINISHED JOURNEY (b) Macdonald and Jane's (1979 5th imp.) pp393 d/w VG+ Books//Books £20.00
110 MEYNELL, Esther THE LITTLE CHRONICLE OF MAGDALENA BACH. Chapman and Hall (1954) Books//Books £3.00
1778 MILLER, Russell and BOAR, Russell THE INCREDIBLE MUSIC MACHINE. Conceived, edited and designed by Jacques Lowe. A Quartet/ Visual Arts Book (1982) pp288 d/w (sl. repair) Books//Books £20.00
1476 MOORE, Douglas A GUIDE TO MUSICAL STYLES From Madrigal to Modern Music. Norton , New York (1942/62) Revised Edition pp347 p/b Books//Books £8.00
1524 MORDDEN, Ethan BEAUTIFUL MORNIN' The Broadway Musical in the 1940s. OUP (1999) d/w pp278 Books//Books £18.50
112 MOSISEIWITSCH, Maurice MOISEIWITSCH Biography of a Concert Pianist. Muller (1965) pp199 d/w Books//Books £15.00
2986 MOULES, Joan OUR GRACIE The Life of Dame Gracie Fileds. Hale pp247 (1983), good d/w Books//Books £10.00
114 MOZART by Eric Blom. The Master Musicians ed. Sir Jack Westrup. Dent pp388 (1974 reprint) d/w VG Books//Books £6.00
1766 MOZART Mozart The Golden Years by H.C. Robbins Landon. Thames and Hudson (1989) pp272 d/w Books//Books £12.00
1581 MOZART MOZART THE DRAMATIST by Brigid Brophy. A new view of Mozart, his operas and his age. Faber and Faber (1964) pp328 d/w Books//Books £15.00
115 MOZART MOZART THE MUSICIAN by Arthur Hutchings. Thames and Hudson (1976 1st) d/w VG Books//Books £12.00
116 MOZART Life of (including his correspondence) by Edward Holmes (original 1845). Edited, with an intro. and additional notes by Christopher Hogwood. Folio Society (1991) pp309 (in slipcase) Books//Books £25.00
113 MOZART by Eric Blom. The Master Musicians ed. Sir Jack Westrup. Dent pp388 (a) (1956 reprint) d/w, VG Books//Books £8.00
117 MOZART A Musical Biography by Konrad Kuster. Clarenden Press, Oxford (1996) NEW Books//Books £20.00
1760 MOZART MOZART by Johannes Jansen. Taschen (1999) pp96 s/b (all-colour) Books//Books £7.00
1580 MOZART MOZART An Illustrated Biography by Richard Baker. Macdonald (1991) pp149 d/w Books//Books £15.00
3113 MOZART, W.A INTERPRETING MOZART ON THE KEYBOARD by Eva and Paul Badura-Skoda (translated by Leo Black). Barrie and Rockliff (1962) pp319 (d/w worn) Books//Books £50.00
1754 MOZART, W.A. MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus. THEMATIC CATALOGUE IN HIS OWN HAND. Facsimile of the Autograph in the British Library. Edited and with a commentary by Albi Rosenthal & Alan Tyson. Publisher : Barenreiter. ISBN : 3761809808 pp57; 90 facsimiles, hardback (1992). Language: German NEW Books//Books £55.00
2292 MOZLEY, Charles LE NOZZE DI FIGARO Drawings made at Glyndebourne during the performance of the OPERA by Charles Mozley. WITH BEST WISHES FROM BARBARA & CYRIL SWEETT for CHRISTMAS 1984 (signed by Cyril and Barbara) pp29 (13 x 15 cms) Books//Books £20.00
119 MUSIC DICTIONARY MUSIC DICTIONARY. Longman Top Pocket (1985) pp218 Books//Books £3.00
120 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE WORLD MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE WORLD. The first and only comprehensive illustrated encyclopedia of its kind. More than 4,000 original drawings. Bantam (1978) pp320 Books//Books £15.00
6 Musicians BAKER'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF MUSICIANS. Fourth Edition Revised and Enlarged. Schirmer, USA pp1240. (1940). Ex-Pub.Lib green cloth VG Books//Books £20.00
121 NAUMANN, Emil (trans. Pr'ger) THE HISTORY OF MUSIC Vol. II. Cassell (undated, poss. mid-Victorian) pp537 a.e.g. decorated blue bevilled boards. Fine
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1397 NEWMAN, Ernest THE STORIES OF THE GREAT OPERAS With Music. The Stories and Descriptive Analysis of the Music by ERNEST NEWMAN. Geo Newnes pp602.
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122 NEWMAN, Ernest. STORIES OF THE GREAT OPERAS & THEIR COMPOSERS. Dorset (modern facsimile reprint of the 1930 edition) d/w pp371 Books//Books £15.00
390 NEWS CHRONICLE MUSIC FOR THE HOME NEWS CHRONICLE MUSIC FOR THE HOME Favourite Songs/ Famous Waltzes/ Renowned Pianoforte Pieces/ Arias from Grand Opera/ Cryes of London/ Grand Marches. Edited by Sir Landon Ronald. (1932) pp240. Another copy with defaced endpapers @ £8.00 ow good copy Songbooks £10.00
391 NEWS CHRONICLE SONG BOOK NEWS CHRONICLE SONG BOOK Compiled and edited by T.P.Ratcliff. Community Songs, Plantation Songs, Sea Shanties, Negro Spirituals, Children's Songs, Hymns & Carols (includes Onward Christian Soldiers) c.1930s pp208 (slightly worn)
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1927 NOEL GAY'S 5th SONG ALBUM NOEL GAY'S 5th SONG ALBUM containing words, music, tonic-sol-fa, piano accordion, ukulele & guitar accompts. Contents : Bless You; Ashby de la Zouch; When You Play With Fire; My Little Pet Lamb; To Bed Early; Love Flies Out of the Window; Promises; When Alice Blue Gown Met Little Boy Blue; Let's Kee ...
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1278 OFFENBACH OFFENBACH by Peter Gammond. The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers. Omnibus Press (1980) pp169 NEW Books//Books £7.00
1172 OFFENBACH TALES OF HOFFMANN. Retold from Offenbach's opera byCyril Falls& Illustrated by A. Brantingham Simpson, R.O.I. Chatto & Windus (1913) Books//Books £25.00
393 OLD ENGLISH DITTIES selected from W.Chappell's POPULAR MUSIC OF THE OLDEN TIME with a new introduction. New words J.Oxenford, accompaniments G.A.MacFarren. Chappell (undated:late C19th) pp241 shaken Songbooks £25.00
1757 OPERA GRAND OPERA STORIES. Published by Oscar Hammerstein at the London Opera House. Twenty-nine operas; 4 plates of composers and artistes (undated; c.1912) pp40 Books//Books £25.00
123 ORDWAY, Edith B THE OPERA BOOK. Revised and enlarged. Sully (1917) pp603 shaken Books//Books £12.00
1759 OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN THE AMAZING OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN. The Life and Exploits of an Impressario by Vincent Sheean. Weidenfeld and Nicolson (1956) pp363 d/w VG Books//Books £20.00
124 OXFORD STUDENT'S HARMONY, THE THE OXFORD STUDENT'S HARMONY by Edwin Smith and David Renouf. Books 1 & 2 (1965/66) 10.00 pair Books//Books £10.00
126 PALESTRINA The Technique of by H.K.Andrews. Novello pp256 (1958). Ex-Pub.Lib blue cloth VG Books//Books £20.00
1347 PARRISH, C. & OHL, John F. MASTERPIECES OF MUSIC BEFORE 1750. An Anthology of Musical Examples from Gregorian Chant to J.S.Bach. Compiled and Edited with Historical and Analytical Notes by CARL PARRISH and JOHN F. OHL. Faber and Faber (1980 reprint) pp235, neat college stamp Books//Books £4.00
127 PARRY, C.Hubert H THE EVOLUTION OF THE ART OF MUSIC. Kegan (1917) pp338 Books//Books £8.00
128 PARRY, C.Hubert H. STUDIES OF GREAT COMPOSERS. Light green cloth faded & worn, spine light brown. 376pp. Routledge (17th ed.) Books//Books £5.00
129 PELICAN HISTORY OF MUSIC, THE THE PELICAN HISTORY OF MUSIC edited by Alec Robertson and Denis Stevens Volume 2 Renaissance and Baroque (1963) Books//Books £4.00
1285 PERFORMING ARTS PERFORMING ARTS An Illustrated Guide ed. Mich'l Billington. Macdonald
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130 PETERSON, Franklin PIANIST'S HANDBOOK Part I. Blue cloth grubby, 70pp. Augener (c.1906 3rd imp.) Books//Books £5.00
1779 PIGGOTT, Patrick THE LIFE & MUSIC OF JOHN FIELD 1782-1837 Creator of the Nocturne. Faber and Faber (1973) pp287 d/w VG (inscription) Books//Books £30.00
1669 PORTER, Cole A Biography by William McBrien. Knopf, New York (1998) pp459 (pictorial laminated paper wraps) NEW Books//Books £15.00
131 POULENC My Friends and Myself. Dobson (1978). Ex-Pub.Lib VG with d/w Books//Books £12.00
132 POWELL, Sandy `CAN YOU HEAR ME MOTHER?' Sandy Powell's Lifetime of Music Hall told to Harry Stanley. Jupiter Bks (1975) pp192 d/w Books//Books £15.00
135 PROUT, Ebenezer HARMONY ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. Brown cloth 342pp. Augener (c) 1903 (40th imp. 1923): good copy in original binding Books//Books £20.00
133 PROUT, Ebenezer COUNTERPOINT: STRICT AND FREE. Brown cloth, spine rubbed and marked, 249pp. Augener (Preface 1890) (inscribed 1898)(5th ed.) Books//Books £8.00
134 PROUT, Ebenezer HARMONY ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. Brown cloth 342pp. Augener (c) 1903 (40th imp. 1923): (a) restored with new spine and back board, gilt lettering Books//Books £25.00
136 PROUT, Ebenezer MUSICAL FORM. Augener (2nd ed.Preface dated 1893) pp244 (stamped 1895) Books//Books £10.00
2536 PRUNIERES, Henry A NEW HISTORY OF MUSIC The Middle Ages to Mozart. With an Introduction by Romain Rolland. Translated from the French by Edward Lockspeiser. Macmillan, New York (1943) pp413 Books//Books £15.00
137 PUCCINI PUCCINI and His Operas. Ed. Stanley Sadie. The New Grove Composers Series (2000) pp187 h/b NEW Books//Books £8.00
2277 PUDNEY, John MUSIC ON THE SOUTH BANK An Appreciation of The Royal Festival Hall. London City Council (1951) pp48 d/w Books//Books £10.00
138 PURCELL by J.A.Westrup. Dent Master Musicians (1943) Books//Books £5.00
139 RANKIN, Lt-Col. Sir Reginald WAGNER'S NIBELUNGEN RING done into blank verse. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. (Collected edition 1930) pp208 Ex-Pub.Lib, but v. clean, unworn copy Books//Books £25.00
140 REES, Ann A Ladybird Book of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (1966) pp50 Books//Books £2.00
2525 REES, C.B. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE HALLE. Foreword by Sir John Barbirolli. Macgibbon & Kee (1957 1st) pp175 Books//Books £12.00
1725 REESER, Dr. Eduard THE SONS OF BACH by Dr Eduard Reeser (translated from the Dutch by W.A.G. Doyle-Davidson) Symphonia Books/ The Continental Book Company A.B. Stockholm. pp63 (n/d) Books//Books £9.00
1745 REID, Charles JOHN BARBIROLLI. A Biography by Charles Reid. Illustrated. Hamilton (1971) pp446 h/b with d/w Books//Books £10.00
1403 REYNOLDS, Gordon & CHATTERLEY, Albert A YOUNG TEACHER'S GUIDE TO CLASS MUSIC. Novello (1969) pp112, p/b Books//Books £4.00
141 RICHARDSON, Henry Handel THE YOUNG COSIMA A novel. Heinemann (1939 Feb reprint) Books//Books £10.00
1331 ROBERTSON, Alec and STEVENS, Denis (eds.) THE PELICAN HISTORY OF MUSIC 3 : Classical and Romantic. Penguin (1968) pp251 Books//Books £2.00
1329 ROHAN, Mich'l Scott (ed.) THE CLASSICAL VIDEO GUIDE. Over 350 Opera, Ballet and Concert Performances reviewed and rated. Gollancz (1994) pp335 discreet college stamp Books//Books £6.00
143 ROSENTHAL, Harold and WARRACK, John CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF OPERA OUP (1974) Books//Books £8.00
3040 ROSSINI, DONIZETTI, BELLINI, VERDI & PUCCINI The New Grove MASTERS OF ITALIAN OPERA : ROSSINI, DONIZETTI, BELLINI, VERDI & PUCCINI by Philip Gossett, William Ashbrook, Julian Budden, Friedrich Lippmann, Andrew Porter & Marco Carner. Macmillan Papermac (1984 reprint) pp353 ISBN 0 333 35383 8 (neat college stamps, ow good copy) Books//Books £5.00
2294 ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION : 1959-1960 86th Session pp 107 & 1960-1961 87th Session pp97 for sale as a pair Books//Books £6.00
1957 ROYAL NAVY WAR-SONG ALBUM ROYAL NAVY WAR-SONG ALBUM : Boys of the Ocean Blue; Old England's Still the Same; Hearts of Oak; England Expects That Every Man Will Do His Duty; Life on the Ocean Wave; Three Cheers for the Red, White and Blue; The Union Jack of Old England; Rule Britannia. Newnes pp18 Songbooks £7.00
1326 RUBLOWSKY, John BLACK MUSIC IN AMERICA. Basic Books, New York (1971) d/w scored, a little stained at top of front and rear flyleaves, ow good pp150 Books//Books £5.00
1333 RUSHTON, Julian CLASSICAL MUSIC A Concise History from Gluck to Beethoven. Thames and Hudson (1996 reprint) pp192, discreet college stamps Books//Books £5.00
1316 RUSSELL, John A HISTORY OF MUSIC FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. Harrap (Second edition revised and enlarged 1965/1977 reprint) pp204 VG, no d/w Books//Books £5.00
144 RUSSELL, Raymond THE HARPSICHORD AND CLAVICHORD An Introductory Study. Second edition, revised by Howard Schott. Faber (1979) pp208; plates b/w 103 d/w (covered with sticky-backed plastic) Books//Books £25.00
1322 SADIE, Stanley (ed.) with LATHAM, Alison THE CAMBRIDGE MUSIC GUIDE. Cambridge University Press (1985) pp544 d/w, discreet college stamps
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1699 Sadie/Samuel THE NORTON/GROVE DICTIONARY OF WOMEN COMPOSERS Edited by Julie Anne Sadie & Rhian Samuel. Norton (USA) (1994) p548 Books//Books £25.00
2302 SADLER'S WELLS BALLET AT COVENT GARDEN SADLER'S WELLS BALLET AT COVENT GARDEN A Book of Photographs by Merlyn Severn. Lane (1947) pp80 d/w worn, ow VG Books//Books £20.00
1309 SCHANG, F.C. VISITING CARDS of PRIMA DONNAS. Vantage Press (1977) pp111 VG, d/w Books//Books £15.00
1312 SCHOLES, Percy A. THE OXFORD COMPANION TO MUSIC. Tenth edition revised and reset . Edited by John Owen Ward. OUP (1972 reprint with corrections) pp1189. Text in good condition, binding worn (college stamps) Books//Books £5.00
146 SCHONBERG, Harold C THE LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS. Abacus (1992) p/b pp555 Books//Books £8.00
149 SCHUBERT by George R. Marek, Hale (1986) pp254 Books//Books £15.00
148 SCHUBERT by Edmondstoune Duncan. The Master Musicians. Dent (1934) Books//Books £8.00
3038 SCHUBERT The New Grove SCHUBERT by Maurice J.E. Brown. Work-List by Eric Sams. Macmillan Papermac (1988 reprint) pp186 ISBN 0 333 34195 3 (one neat college stamp) Books//Books £5.00
150 SCHUMANN by Joan Chissell. The Master Musicians. Dent p/b (1979) Books//Books £5.00
176 SCHUMANN By Tim Dowley (1984) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
2293 SCKVILLE-WEST, Edward and SHAWE-TAYLOR, Desmond THE RECORD YEAR 2 . A guide to this year's gramophone records including a complete guide to long playing records. With Andrew Porter. Collins (1953) d/w frail, sl. run of top edge colouring (green) ow good copy pp384 Books//Books £10.00
151 SCOTTISH OPERA THEATRE ROYAL SCOTTISH OPERA THEATRE ROYAL YEAR BOOK 1975/1976 Books//Books £6.00
152 SCOTTISH OPERA THEATRE ROYAL SCOTTISH OPERA THEATRE ROYAL YEAR BOOK 1982/83 pp184 Books//Books £4.00
1515 SEBBA, Jane SING A SILVER LINING Songs to brighten your day. A&C Black (1998) NEW Songbooks £10.00
153 SHINN, Frederick G. ELEMENTARY EAR TRAINING (a) Book I Melodic. Blue cloth, grubby and stained (front only), 106pp. Augener (1899 4th imp.) Books//Books £5.00
154 SHINN, Frederick G. ELEMENTARY EAR TRAINING Book II Harmonic & Contrapuntal. Blue cloth, grubby. 159pp. Augener (1910 3rd Imp.) Books//Books £5.00
1782 SMETANA SMETANA by Brian Large. Duckworth (1970) pp473 d/w VG Books//Books £25.00
1660 SOLTI, Sir Georg MEMOIRS with assistance from Harvey Sachs. Knopf, New York (1997) pp258 NEW Books//Books £14.00
2304 SONG FOLIO SONG FOLIO. STANDARD VOCAL MUSIC with accompaniment for Piano or Organ by Favorite Composers (with artistes' portraits) Hunter, U.S.A. (1883) pp202 ('My Queen' incomplete from p202) (very worn). No index Songbooks £5.00
155 SPENCE, Keith LIVING MUSIC. Book Club (1979) d/w pp144 Books//Books £8.00
156 SPENCER CURWEN, Mrs J. PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO MUSIC TEACHING. Brown cloth stained, spine faded. 332pp. Curwen n/d Books//Books £4.00
1418 SPOHR, L LOUIS SPOHR'S Celebrated VIOLIN SCHOOL Trans. Edward Taylor. Edited by John Bishop (Original Edition). Cocks (undated/ early Victorian) pp235, brown cloth, marble endpapers, spine rubbed, ow VG Books//Books £100.00
1339 SRANGEWAYS & WILSON SCHUBERT'S SONGS TRANSLATED. A Selection from THE MAID O' THE MILL and THE WINTRY ROAD by A.H.Fox Stangeways and Steuart Wilson. OUP (1925) pp90, neat college stamps Books//Books £8.00
157 STAINER AND BARRETT STAINER AND BARRETT'S DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL TERMS. Revised and ed. Sir J.Stainer. Novello (1898) Books//Books £20.00
158 STAINER, Dr. J HARMONY. Novello's Music Primers and Educational Series pp124 Books//Books £25.00
159 STEWART, Madeau INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA. Macdonald (1980) pp176 d/w Books//Books £10.00
160 STOCKDALE, F.M. and DREYER, M.R. THE OPERA GUIDE. Collins & Brown (1990) d/w pp342 Books//Books £15.00
161 STOKOWSKI, Leopold A Profile by Abram Chasins. Hale (1981) pp313 d/w Books//Books £15.00
162 STRATHAM, H. Heathcote MY THOUGHTS on MUSIC AND MUSICIANS. Chapman and Hall (1892) pp475 Books//Books £20.00
3023 STRATTON, Pauline MR. HILL the CHORUS MASTER. A musical journey through the lives of three (i.e. Hill and his two sons) 19th Century Norwich musicians. Reeve, Wymondham, Norfolk pp224 (laminated wraps) (2001) ISBN: 0 900616 61 X (contains photograph of a young Arthur Sullivan in 1858) Books//Books £6.00
1404 SWANWICK, Keith POPULAR MUSIC AND THE TEACHER. The Prgamon English Library (1968) pp140, p/b Books//Books £5.00
1343 SWEDISH MUSIC TRADITION AND PROGRESS IN SWEDISH MUSIC. Musikrevy `Special Edition', Stockholm (1973) pp116, college stamps Books//Books £6.00
1670 TCHAIKOVSKY TCHAIKOVSKY AND HIS WORLD. Edited by Leslie Kearney. Princetown University Press, New Jersey (1998) pp369 p/b NEW Books//Books £15.00
166 TCHAIKOVSKY by Edwin Evans. The Master Musicians. Dent (1948 revised reprint) pp234 d/w, VG Books//Books £6.00
169 TEAR, Robert SINGER BEWARE A Cautionary Story of the Singing Class. Hodder & Stoughton (1995) d/w pp180 Books//Books £15.00
118 THE BOOK OF MUSIC THE BOOK OF MUSIC. A visual guide to musical appreciation. Macdonald (1977) d/w pp192 Books//Books £10.00
2591 THE BRITISH STUDENTS' SONG BOOK THE BRITISH STUDENTS' SONG BOOK. Published for The Scottish Students' Song Book Committee Limited. Bayley & Ferguson (1913) pp359 Songbooks £25.00
2321 THE CHESTER BOOKS OF CELEBRATED SONGS THE CHESTER BOOKS OF CELEBRATED SONGS. Book One. Selected and graded for the developing voice. Selected and Edited by Shirley Leah (12). Chester 1981) pp36 (neat college stamps) x 2 copies (sl. worn) @ £4.00 each Songbooks £4.00
378 THE CLARENDON SONG BOOKS - II Edited by W.Gillies Whittaker, Herbert Wiseman, & J. Wishart. OUP (1929) Songbooks £1.00
387 THE JUST SO SONG BOOK. Words by Rudyard Kipling. Music by Edward German. Macmillan/ Novello (1919 reprint) pp62 decorative boards worn Songbooks £25.00
1396 THE MUSICAL TMES (founded 1844) ed. Stanley Sadie THE MUSICAL TMES @ £4.00 each unless otherwise stated:
Vol. 74 No. 1084 June, 1933 pp482-576 @ £10.00

Vol. 100 No. 1401 Nov. 1959 pp570-640 @ £7.00

Vol. 112 No. 1535 January 1971

Vol. 113 No. 1549 March 1972

Vol. CXX; No. 1632 (cover stained)

Vol. CXX, No. 1643 ...
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88 THE POCKET KOBBE'S OPERA THE POCKET KOBBE'S OPERA. Ed. Earl of Harewood. Ebury Press (1994) d/w pp470 Books//Books £10.00
1761 THE RECORD OF SINGING THE RECORD OF SINGING by Mich'l Scott with illustrations from the Stuart-Liff Coillection. Duckworth. Volume 1 (1977) pp243 s/b ; Volume Two (1914-1925) (1979) pp262 h/b Books//Books £40.00
142 THE ROYAL CARL ROSA OPERA COMPANY STORIES OF THE OPERAS (16). 11 Texts by Harold R. White. Printed for Carl Rosa under the direction of H.B.Phillips pp32. Portrait of Carl Rosa (1842-1889) on cover by E.H.White n/d (in original but badly cracked clear paper wraps) Books//Books £10.00
2305 THE SONG FOLIO No.2 THE SONG FOLIO No.2. STANDARD VOCAL MUSIC with accompaniment for Piano or Organ by Favorite Foreign and American Composers. Shaw, USA (1886) (with artistes' portraits) pp208 (with Sullivan's 'The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring' and 'Tit Willow' from THE MIKADO) (mentions 'his forthcoming and lates ...
Songbooks £20.00
1395 THE STRAD (founded 1890) THE STRAD: A monthly journal for professional and amateurs of all stringed instruments played with the bow @ £4.00 each unless otherwise stated :
Vol. LXXX August 1969

Vol. LXXX1 No.969 Jan. 1971 - Vol. LXXXII No. 980 (12 issues) @ £48.00

Vol. LXXXII No. 983 March 1972
Vol. LXX ...
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1431 THE STRAND MUSICAL PORTFOLIO THE STRAND MUSICAL PORTFOLIO OF COPYRIGHT SONGS & MUSIC No.1. CONTENTS:
1. The Famous Intermezzo from CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA by Pietro Mascagni
2. Song. WHISPER AND I SHALL HEAR by M. Piccolomini
3. Waltz. DREAMING by Archibald Joyce
4. Song. TO MY SWEETHEART by Dorothy Beckwith
5. The ...
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2262 THE THIRD STAR FOLIO OF POPULAR SONGS THE THIRD STAR FOLIO OF POPULAR SONGS (44). Paxton pp240 VG Songbooks £12.00
399 THE UNICORN TWO-PART SONG BOOK A Selection of Two-Part Songs (Vocal Edition) Curwen no date Songbooks £2.00
1523 THE VIOLIN BOOK THE VIOLIN BOOK. Over 350 full-colour photographs and artworks. Consultant : Robin Stowell. Contributors: Benjamin Dawson, John Dilworth, Duncan Druce, Max Harrison, Brian Harvey, Peter Holman, Anne Inglis, Peter Oxley, David Ratray, Stephen Res, Bernard Richardson, Helen Wallace, Trevor Williams. ...
Books//Books £50.00
163 THE WALTZ EMPERORS by Joseph Wechsberg. The Life and Times and Music of the Strauss Family. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1973 1st) d/w VG Books//Books £12.00
170 THEATRE LONDON London Transport (1980) pp200 Books//Books £6.00
1966 THREE TRADITIONAL YORKSHIRE SONGS THREE TRADITIONAL YORKSHIRE SONGS arranged with Piano Accompaniment by Frank Wade : 1. Madam, I 'ave comed in coortin (collected, 1949, by Brian Branston); 2. Mrs Bond (collected by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould); 3. Bee-Bye, Butterfly (collected, 1949, by Brian Branston). Lengwick (1950) pp3 (sellotape repair across music) Songbooks £3.00
2539 TOVEY, Donald Francis MUSICAL ARTICLES FROM THE ENCYCLOP'DIA BRITANNICA. OUP (1944 1st) pp251 Books//Books £20.00
3071 TURNER, Dame Eva DAME EVA TURNER A Celebration of her Ninetieth Birthday. Covent Garden Sunday 14th March 1982 pp16 booklet + outer wraps (in association with The Daily Telegraph) Books//Books £8.00
1335 VAN VECHTEN, Carl THE MUSIC OF SPAIN. With Preface and Notes by Pedro G. Morales. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. (1920) pp192 h/b, discreet college stamps Books//Books £10.00
177 VERDI BY Peter Southwell-Sander (1986) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
1319 VERDI VERDI BUSINESSMAN by Paolo Panico. Gruppo Editoriale Atman (2002) pp317
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182 VERDI By Joseph Wechberg. Arts Book Society Readers Union Group (1974) 255pp d/w VG Books//Books £12.00
181 VERDI VERDI and His Operas. Ed. Stanley Sadie. The New Grove Composers Series (2000) pp242 h/b NEW Books//Books £8.00
1743 VERDI THE COMPLETE OPERAS OF VERDI. A critical guide by Charles Osborne. Gollancz (1969) pp485 d/w Books//Books £15.00
2298 VERDI, G FALSTAFF. Cambridge Opera Handbooks. By James A. Hepokoski. Cambridge University Press (1983) pp180 Books//Books £5.00
178 VILLA-LOBOS By Lisa Peppercorn. Edited by Audrey Sampson (1989) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
179 VIVALDI By John Booth (1989) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
183 WAGNER by Robert L. Jacobs. The Master Musicians ed. Blom. Dent (1947 reprint) pp268 d/w, VG Books//Books £6.00
1758 WAGNER THE OPERAS OF WAGNER by J. Cuthbert Hadden. Twenty-Four plates in colour from drawings by Byam Shaw. Jack (1908) p246. Red cloth, gilt lettering and design on front board and spine. Half-title page foxed + edges of pages, plates unaffected
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3053 WALLACE, Ian PROMISE ME YOU’LL SING MUD! The Autobiography of Ian Wallace. Calder (1975) d/w Books//Books £10.00
2512 WALTER, Bruno OF MUSIC AND MUSIC-MAKING Bruno Walter translated by Paul Hamburger. Faber and Faber (1957: translation 1961) no d/w pp222 top of spine rubbed, ow good copy Books//Books £20.00
2523 WALTER, Bruno THEME AND VARIATIONS An Autobiography of Bruno Walter. Hamish Hamilton (1947 1st) pp400 red cloth Books//Books £10.00
187 WARBURTON, Annie O SCORE READING, FORM and HARMONY. Longman (1975) p/b pp208 Books//Books £4.00
186 WARBURTON, Annie O HARMONY. Longman (1975) First published 1938. New Edition 1952 Books//Books £6.00
180 WEBER By Anthony Friese-Greene (1991) THE ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS Softback. Omnibus Press NEW Books//Books £6.00
1783 WEIGHTMAN, Gavin BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. London Entertained 1830-1950. A major LWT TV Series. Collins & Brown (1992) pp160 Books//Books £15.00
188 WESTRUP, Sir Jack and HARRISON, F.Ll. COLLINS ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MUSIC. Revised by Conrad Wilson. Collins/Chancellor Press (1986 reprint) pp608 d/w Books//Books £15.00
189 WHITTAKER, W.G. CLASS-SINGING. Marbled boards, grubby, 136pp. OUP (1930 2nd ed.) Books//Books £5.00
3049 WILLIAMS, Harcourt VIC - WELLS The Work of Lilian Baylis. Cobden-Sanderson (1938) pp106 (with obituary press-cuting), remnants of d/w in protective library sleeve Books//Books £10.00
1405 WINDEBANK, Florence MUSIC READING FOR YOUNG CHILDREN with a Foreword by Athur Hutchings. Novello (1966) pp164, p/b Books//Books £6.00
1463 WINTERS, Geoffrey MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE CLASSROOM. Longman (1972 3rd imp.) p/b pp107 (2 copies) Books//Books £4.00
190 WOOD, Henry J. MY LIFE OF MUSIC. With an Introduction by Sir Hugh Allen. Gollancz (1946 cheap edition) pp384 Books//Books £5.00
191 WOOD, Thomas. MUSIC & BOYHOOD. OUP pp66 (1925) Books//Books £6.00
192 WRAY, Elizabeth A. SKELETON HISTORY OF MUSIC From 1400 to the Present Day. Green cloth. The Musician's Bookshelf ed. Claude Landi. Bookplate 171pp. Kegan Paul (1925) Books//Books £6.00
1406 YOUNG, Percy GREAT IDEAS IN MUSIC. Great Ideas Series No. 2. Robert Maxwell (1967) pp211, d/w Books//Books £6.00
193 YOUNG, T. Campbell THE MAKING OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OUP (1939) Books//Books £10.00
194 YOUNGHUSBAND, Jan ORCHESTRA The Book of the Channel Four Television Series (1991) pp214 d/w Books//Books £15.00
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