Item 5347Philosophies of Music History
New York: Dover Publications, 1962. softcover. 8vo. 382pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05430.
music/dance
Item 4342Deep in My Heart
New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1949. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 511pp. from front flap: "Sigmund Romberg's music has brought joy to millions of people, and its beauty is as enduring as it is fresh. This book portrays the man who composed some of the great songs and airs that.....
Item 73Dinosaurs in the Morning
Lippincott, 1962. first. hardcover. stated first edition of The New Yorker's jazz critic Whitney Balliett's second collection of pieces on jazz, covering the years 1957-1962. #00012.
Item 4717Cher!
New York: Pocket Books, 1986. mass market paperback. 16mo. 219pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04800.
Item 1898A Life of Love and Music
London: Folio Society, 1987. hardcover. 8vo 466pp. colorful, biased memoir of the 19th century French composer, published the year after his death. #01960.
Item 2021Remembering Bix
New York: Harper and Row, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 428pp. from front flap: "Hoagy Carmichael said that once you heard Bix Beiderbecke blow four notes on his horn, your life would never be the same. Bix has always inspired that kind of rhetoric, and the cliche "a legend in.....
Item 3241The History of Popular Culture . . . Since 1815
New York: Macmillan Company, 1968. first thus. softcover. 8vo 390pp. stated first printing. see pictures for selection of contents. #03306.
Item 3153Harmony
Boston: B F Wood Music Co, 1897. forty-first edition. hardcover. 8vo 236pp. from Preface: "The object of this book is to give the student a working vocabulary of chords for the harmonizing of melodies in the order of their practical value and harmonic importance. The author has endeavored to encourage.....
Item 4235Rounds Re-Sounding: Circular Music for Voices and Instruments
Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1987. hardcover. 4to. 329pp. from Foreword: "...Included in this volume of over 600 rounds are all the old favorites, some lesser-known folk rounds, historically important works, rounds by such classical composers as Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and others, and compositions with contemporary beats and themes.".....
Item 3908The Hymnal
Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Christian Education, 1940. hardcover. 8vo. 608pp. eleventh printing, 1940. hymns arranged in four part harmony. #03974.
Item 1813Music With Children
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1959. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 294pp. #01875.
Item 2453From the Bowery to Broadway:
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. first edition. hardcover. 4to 552pp. with a foreword by Helen Hayes. from front flap: "From the Bowery to Broadway offers a panoramic view of the early history of the American popular theater through the career of a consummate showman. In the half-century between his stage.....
Item 3016First Book of Songs
New York: American Book Company, 1925. hardcover. 12mo 124pp. from Preface: THE SERIES. The Foresman Books of Songs will find a place wherever music teaching aspires to acquaint its disciples with the finer things of song in their original simplicity and grandeur. These collections have a definite function, for in.....
Item 1462Shakespeare's Songs
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1970. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 96pp. from front flap: "All the songs of the English-speaking world's greatest poet are collected in this little book edited by Alfred Bennett Harbage, Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University. The music printed with the text consists of arrangements of.....
Item 1463Shakespeare's Songs
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1970. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 96pp. from front flap: "All the songs of the English-speaking world's greatest poet are collected in this little book edited by Alfred Bennett Harbage, Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University. The music printed with the text consists of arrangements of.....
Item 2143Shakespeare's Songs
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1970. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 96pp. from front flap: "All the songs of the English-speaking world's greatest poet are collected in this little book edited by Alfred Bennett Harbage, Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University. The music printed with the text consists of arrangements of.....
Item 4577Shakespeare's Songs
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1970. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 96pp. from front flap: "All the songs of the English-speaking world's greatest poet are collected in this little book edited by Alfred Bennett Harbage, Cabot Professor of English Literature at Harvard University. The music printed with the text consists of arrangements of.....
Item 4234Song Stories for the Kindergarten
Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1896. New Edition. Revised, Illustrated and Enlarged. hardcover. 4to. 90pp. revised edition of first book to feature the original tune for "happy birthday" in print. #04315.
Item 4919Rock and Roll Songwriter's Handbook
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1972. softcover. 12mo. 128pp. see pictures for synopsis. #05002.
Item 2433Modern and Modernism
New York: Atheneum, 1985. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 456pp. from front flap: "In wide-ranging discussions of art, literature, music, science, dance, architecture, psychoanalysis and much else, Frederick R. Karl traces the provenance and myriad paths of Modernism, throwing light on what has often seemed a murky and confusing subject and.....
Item 4398How Music Grew
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1960. Reise Lonette. hardcover. 16mo. 312pp. #04480.
Item 4921Teach Yourself Singing
Menlo Park, CA: IWP Publishing, 1980. softcover. 12mo. 142pp. includes publisher's review copy letter. see pictures for synopsis. #05004.
Item 911How to Listen to Music
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. thirteenth edition. hardcover. 12mo. 361pp. popular music appreciation text by American musicologist and critic used for decades in the late 19th into the early 20th century. #00992.
Item 1115The Pianoforte and its Music
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. first thus. hardcover. 12mo. 314pp. + advertisements. History of the development of the piano, history of composers writing for the instrument, and a history of several of the notable virtuosi performers of the piano. Part of The Music Lover's Library. #01185.
Item 4678The Book of Musical Anecdotes
New York: Free Press, 1985. hardcover. 8vo. 382pp. see pictures for synopsis. #04761.