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
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 Here are most of the previously unpublished writings of Charles E. Ives: a primary source book on this unique American composer.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
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
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
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
Eerdmans Pub Co, November 2005. Soft Cover. 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
Stein and Day, January 1974. Hardcover. 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
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
Workman Publishing Company, April 2006. Trade Paperback. A complete education in classical music, written with verve and wit. No music lover can pick up this one-volume compendium without becoming a more knowledgeable, discerning listener. - The sonata form revealed, and why it's been deeply satisfying for three centuries. - What..... 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
University of Rochester Press, December 2015. Hardcover. Composer-performer Julius Eastman (1940-90) was an enigma, both comfortable and uncomfortable in the many worlds he inhabited: black, white, gay, straight, classical music, disco, academia, and downtown New York. His music, insistent and straightforward, resists labels and seethes with a tension that resonates..... 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
Easton Press, 1992. First Edition. Leather. Navy blue leather bound with gold lettering on spine. Likewise gold decorative panels front and back cover. Gold textblock edges. Silk ribbon marker. Easton Press unused Ex-Libris laid in. Moire end pages. Signed by SCHONBERG on special page after FFEP. (427 pp.). 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
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
A.A. Knopf, January 1944. First Edition. Cloth. Dustjacket is missing. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} Octavo. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Slightly cocked. Bruised corners. Non-authorial gift inscription inside front free end page and previous owner's name inked same page. 127 pages plus 7 page index..... 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
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
Oxford University Press / Humphrey Milford, 1935. First Edition. Cloth. First U.K. edition without dustjacket. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Volume Two is worn & a bit frayed along back edge of spine. Two volumes. Darkening/foxing to textblock top edges both volumes with dark grey tiny spots: two..... More
W.W. Norton, 1969. First Edition. Cloth. First American edition in price-clipped dustjacket. Dark grey cloth with gold lettering one spine. Title is framed in red rectangle. Sound binding. Clean, without internal markings. Very good+/fine overall. More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 1999. First Trade. Hardcover. There is no more beloved musician in the classical world than Isaac Stern, revered not only as a great violinist but also as a generous personality and a crucial figure in the world of the arts. One of the few people who..... More
C.F. Peters. Oversize Softcover. Cover is lightly marked. Binding tight, all pages clean and clear. More
