Books - "music"
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Classic and Romantic Music: A Comprehensive Survey
8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1972
KEYWORDS: classic classical romantic music criticism history
Early Keyboard Instruments
8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1989
KEYWORDS: keyboard music instrument early history
Percussion Instruments and Their History
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 509pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm adhesive residue to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1970
KEYWORDS: first editions music history percussion instruments culture
Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art
FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, light creasing & moderate chipping to edges, light to moderate rubbing & surface loss, light foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1967
KEYWORDS: first editions music musical instruments history historic symbolism western art criticism intepretation appreciation
The Harpsichord and Clavichord: An Introductory Study (Second Edition)
REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, unpaginated prelims + 208pp + 103 plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light rubbing & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to apge edges & eps, occasional sl foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate tanning, chafing & foxing, moderate foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973
KEYWORDS: revised edtion music history harpsichords clavichords early keyboards instruments classical
History, Imagination and the Performance of Music
Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 184pp, Near Fine (sl staining/soiling to top edges of page block) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges)
PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2003
KEYWORDS: music history performance entertainment
Ignacy Jan Paderewski: A Pianist Amongst the Geysers
Octavo, grey heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiv + 186pp, illus/photos, Near FINE, in d/w, Near FINE (sl creasing to edges)
PUBLISHER: Quo Vadis 2018
KEYWORDS: New Zealand music musical history Ignacy Jan Paderewski musicians piano pianists
The Future of Jazz
Octavo, illus lgossy light card covers, white lettering to spine & covers, ix + 241pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & covers/edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: A Cappella Books 2002
KEYWORDS: music jazz theory philosophy history criticism
Traditional Songs of the Maori
Oblong quarto, grey heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 324pp, VG (light rubbing & scuffing to board edges/extrems, moderate foxing to boards, light to moderate tanning & soiling to page edges & eps, new publishing info tipped in to title & copyright pages, single vertical crease to pgs 9-10), in d/w, light creasing & chipping to edges, light soiling & scuffing to spine, moderate tanning, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: A H & A W Reed 1975
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Maori songs music heritage culture te reo
Rock Dreams
Sm folio, white light card covers, red lettering to front cover, 222pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & tanning/staining to cover edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & chipping to edges, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Taschen 2003
KEYWORDS: art rock music musicians portraits Guy Peellaert
The Faber Book of French Folk Songs
Imperial octavo, white illus heavy boards, red, blue & black lettering to spine, unpaginated prelims + 152pp, illus, VG (light bruising & tanning to spine & board edges/extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, light tanning & moderate foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, tidy gutter reinforcement to prelims) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & soiling/foxing, light fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber 1972
KEYWORDS: French France music culture folk songs
Central Asian Music: Essays in the History of the Music of the Peoples of the USSR
Imperial octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 340pp, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, light foxing & soiling to page edges & eps, light to moderate foxing to prelims & terminals)
PUBLISHER: Wesleyan University Press 1975
KEYWORDS: music history criticism soviet Russia Russian Asia
From Pop to Punk to Postmodernism: Popular Music and Australian Culture from the 1960s to the 1990s
Octavo, illus light card covers, blue lettering to spine, xi + 188pp, VG+ (light creasing to spine & cover edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling to covers, light soiling & foxing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin 1992
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian popular culture music history late 20th twentieth century
The Oxford Companion to Australian Music
Imperial octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, xvi + 608pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & wrinkling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: music history Australia Australian musical heritage companion performers entertainment dictionary
Jazz: The Australian Accent
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: UNSW Press 2009
KEYWORDS: Australia Australian music jazz history criticism musicians
Cheremis Musical Styles
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Indiana University Press 1960
KEYWORDS: music musical cheremis essay literature Bruno Nettl
Rocking Around the Clock
Octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Routledge 1988
KEYWORDS: music television postmodernism culture mtv
Musical Instruments of South-east Asia
Octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1989
KEYWORDS: music culture cultural artefacts instruments south-east Asia
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Composers (1911-1971)
Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973
KEYWORDS: music musical composers dictionaries 20th twentieth century
Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock 'n' Roll
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Pantheon Books 1981
KEYWORDS: sound recording industry rock music history criticism