W. W. Norton & Company, October 1999. Trade Paperback. Through hundreds of letters, family papers, anecdotes, and records, the Bach Reader established a new approach to biography by offering original documents in impeccable translations. In The New Bach Reader, Christoph Wolff has incorporated numerous facsimiles and added many newly discovered..... More
H.W. Gray Co, January 1933. Soft Cover. Sunned spine; mild shelf wear. Good+ copy without markings. Sound binding. More
Viking Adult, July 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. In spine-sunned dust jacket. Marginal discoloration & foxing, but text is clean. More
Easton Press, January 1992. First American. Leather. Navy blue leather with gold lettering and gold decor. Moire end pages. Easton Press bookplate affixed to front pastedown, with previous owner's typed name. Otherwise like new overall. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. 8 photographic plates printed double-sided with b&w photos. 'This..... More
Viking / Compass, June 1966. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with rubbing, sun lightened spine & creases. Previous owner's name is in ballpoint upper right corner of first inside page. [624 pages]. More
Viking Books, July 1990. Hardcover. The first--the only--full and unauthorized biography of the king of American songwriters: the man of whom rival composer Jerome Kern once said 'Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music'. 36 pages of photographs. More
Paragon House, October 1988. First Edition. Cloth. Bound in heavy pale grey cloth with bright silver lettering along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Stein and Day, January 1974. Hardcover. More
Penguin Group, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A biography of the greatest musical mind in Western history Mozart's unshakable hold on the public's consciousness can only be strengthened by historian and biographer Peter Gay's concise and deft look at the genius's life. Mozart traces the development of the man whose life..... More
Abrams, January 1983. Cloth. Beautiful blood red cloth binding, embossed on the front board and lettered in gold along the spine. Very minor shelf wear on the jacket. More
Dover Publications, June 1972. Paper Back. To aid the performer, the listener, the and the student in all these important aspects, John Gillespie, practicing pianist and harpsichordist and Professor of Music at the University of California, has prepared this, the first work in English to comprehensively survey the development of..... More
Liveright, April 2015. Hardcover. A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here in Words Without Music, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler..... More
Puffin Books, August 1993. Trade Paperback. Focusing on seven of the beloved composer's greatest works and briefly analyzing another 50 of his compositions, Harris leads readers to an appreciation of Mozart's distinctive style, identifying the clues to his genius, and noting the dazzling innovations that give Mozart's works their universal..... More
Prentice Hall, July 2003. First Edition. Oversize Softcover. For freshman/sophomore-level courses in music appreciation. Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is a price-friendly alternative to traditional music appreciation texts. Consisting of a textbook and a free music compact disk included with every text, Masterworks, Portfolio Edition is designed to introduce students to the..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, May 1991. Trade Paperback. Here are most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives: a primary source book on this unique American composer. These Memos, as Ives called them, were on separate leaves and dealt with his music, composition, criticism, autobiography, biography..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, November 1969. Paper Back. Clean, sound with remainder mark bottom edge. More
Black Dog & Leventhal, May 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. This unique, photo-filled musical biography includes two CDs with nearly three hours of landmark performances by the great diva, accompanied by expert commentary. Here is a true artistic biography, focusing on Maria Callas's musical development, her influence, her critical reception--and the..... More
Workman Publishing, September 1999. Trade Paperback. Berlioz. Vaughan Williams. Schubert and Schumann. Mozart after the Jupiter Symphony, Bach beyond the Brandenburg Concertos, opera after The Magic Flute. In his informed and indispensible guide with over 157,000 copies in print, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes listeners by the hand through..... More
Edwin F. Kalmus (Publisher of Music). Pamphlet. Stapled Pamphlet; Sound; Clean interior. More
Edwin F. Kalmus (Publisher of Music). Pamphlet. Stapled Pamphlet; 32 pages. Clean, sound, one pencil notes on one page. No date listed. More
Harper Perennial, February 2010. Paper Back. "Brilliant....This book is a perfect marriage--or should one say, duet--of subject and author, every word as masterly as the notes of the artist it illuminates." -- Christopher Buckley, Forbes "This is not just criticism but poetry in itself, with the additional--and inestimable--merit of being..... More
Dover Publications Inc., June 1964. Trade Paperback. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Previous owner's name inked first inside page. Dust stains/foxing. [209 pages plus 12 page list of Dover titles.]. More
Frederick Warne & Co., Ltd., 1968. Reprint. Cloth. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'}. Dustjacket is missing. Cerulean blue cloth with gold lettering & stamped illustration: spine and front panel. Spine sun-tanned. {152 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, December 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. The Romantic pianist - the solo pianist who plays nineteenth-century piano music - has become an attractive figure in the popular imagination, considering the innumerable artworks, literary works, and films representing this performer's seductive allure. Dreams of Love pursues a wide-ranging interdisciplinary..... More
Ayer Co Pub, June 1971. Hardcover. More
