MUSIC AND OPERA BOOKS
(NOTE THAT BOOKS LISTED AS "very fine" ARE IN AS-NEW CONDITION)



BLUNT, Wilfred. John Christie of Gyndebourne - New York, Theatre Arts Books, 1968. First edition. Very good book in very good dust jacket. --- US$ 17.00

BROCKWAY, Wallace & Herbert WEINSTOCK. The World of Opera - The Story of its Development and the Lore of its Performance - New York, Pantheon, 1962. Ex-library copy. Good; No dust jacket (excellent working copy). --- US$ 4.50

BUDDEN, Jullian. Verdi - Vintage Master Musician Series, 1987. 1st Vintage edition (PB). Very fine copy. --- US$ 6.50

BUSCH, Hans. Verdi's Opera. The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents - Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1978, 1st printing. Very fine in a very good dust jacket (no tears, some rubbing). 743 letters and 14 documents detailing the creation, performance and aftermath of the opera Aida extending over the period from 1868 to 1891. (Aida premiered in Cairo in 1871.) --- US $20.00

CONRAD, Peter. Romantic Opera and Literary Form Univ. of Calif. Press. Very fine with very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 18.50

DAVIAU, Donald & George BULOW. The Adriadne auf Naxos of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss - Univ. of No.Carolina Press, 1975. 1st printing, HB, Fine (not provided with a dust jacket). A very sound, like new copy but lettering on front and spine is poor). --- US$ 10.00

DERI, Otto. Exploring Twentieth-Century Music - NY, Holt/Rhinehart/Winston, 1968, HB. VG+/no DJ (a good tight copy) --- US$ 19.50

DRONE, Jeanette. Index to Opera, Operetta and Musical Comedy Synopses - Very fine (not issued with dust jacket). A brand new copy - unusual in this condition. --- US$ 30.00

EWANS, Michael. Wagner and Aeschylus: The Ring and the Oresteia - London, Farber&Farber, 1982, HB, first printing. Very fine in a very fine dust jacket - a beautiful book in absolutely mint condition. --- US$ 45.00

FALLOWS-HAMMOND, Patricia. Three Hundred Years at the Keyboard - a Piano Sourcebook from Bach to the Moderns - CA, Ross Books, 1984, HB. Fine plus (as new) no dust jacket (as issued). --- US$ 27.00

FISCHER-DIESKAU, Dietrich. Wagner & Nietzsche - NY, Seabury Press, 1976. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 36.00

GAL, Hans. Richard Wagner - NY, Stein & Day, 1976, 1st printing. Very good in good dust jacket (no tears in dust jacket but somewhat rubbed and soiled). --- US$ 6.50

HOWARD, Patricia. The Operas of Benjamin Britton: An Introduction - NY, Praeger, 1970, 2nd printing. Good plus, no dust jacket. A tight book with a small amount of rubbing on spine. Several glued-in clippings (apparently parts of dust jacket) on front and rear end papers. --- US$ 8.00

HUGHES, Spike. Glyndebourne: A History of the Festival Opera - UK, David &Charles, 1981, 3rd printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 15.00

JACKSON, Jim. Tuning and Repairing Your Own Piano - PA, TAB Books, 1984, PB, 1st printing. NEW. --- US$ 12.50

KUPFERBERG, Herbert. Basically Bach - UK, Robson Books, 1986, 1st UK edition. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. As new. --- US$ 18.50

LISZT, Franz (Charles Suttoni, translator). An Artist's Journey - Univ. of Chicago Press, 1st printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 32.50

MANDER, Raymond and Joe MITCHENSON. The Wagner Companion - UK, Comet, 1987 (1st paperback reprint of the 1977 publication. Very good plus (Slight bend at lower front corner of wrap, otherwise as new.) --- US$ 12.50

MOORE, Robert Etheridge. Henry Purcell & the Restoration Theatre - Harvard Univ. Press, 1961, 1st printing. Near fine in good plus dust jacket. (Jacket a bit soiled with a 3/8 inch tear lower front.) --- US$ 13.50

OFFENBACH, Jacques (Land MacClintock, trans.) Orpheus in America - Offenbach's diary of his journey to the New World - NY, Greenwood Reprint, 1969. 1st printing thus. Fine, no dust jacket (as issued). --- US$ 10.00

OSBORNE, Charles. How to Enjoy Opera - UK, Piatkus, 1984, 2nd printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. (Crease on rear mylar wrap does not extend through to the dust jacket. --- US$ 15.00

OSBORNE, Charles (ed.) The Dictionary of Composers - NY, Taplinger, 1978. 1st American edition. Fine in a very good plus dust jacket. A very nice copy. --- US$ 21.00

OSBORNE, Richard. Conversations with Von Karajon - NY, Harper & Row, 1989. 1st US edition. As new, an apparently never-read copy. --- US$ 13.50

PITOU, Spire. The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers and Performers - Genesis and Glory: 1617-1715 - Greenwood Press, 1983 - 1st reprint printing, not issued with dust jacket. Very fine - absolutely pristine. --- US$ 25.00

PROD'HOMME, J.-G. Les Syphonies de Beethoven - NY, DaCapo, 1977. Unabridged republication of the 1906 Troisieme E'dition published in Paris. fine - no dust jacket (as believed issued). --- US$ 37.00

ROSENSTIEL, Leonie. Nadia Boulanger - a life in music - NY, Norton, 1982- 2nd printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. A nice tight copy. --- US$ 20.00

SCHOENBERG, Arnold. Analisi e Practica Musicale - Torino, Einaudi Editore, 1974, 1st printing. Good minus. Signs of wear on edges of wraps. --- US$ 4.50

SINGER, Irving. Mozart & Beethoven - the Concept of Love in Their Operas - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1977, 1st printing. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The author contrasts the artistic and spiritual developments of Mozart during his last ten years and of Beethoven during his middle period, focusing on the various concepts of love as expressed in the operas of the two composers. --- US$ 20.00

SOKOLOFF, Alice Hunt. Cosima Wagner- Extraordinary Daughter of Franz Liszt - NY, Dodd-Mead, 1969. Very good, no dust jacket. --- US$ 8.00

STARER, Robert. Continuo - A Life in Music - NY, Random House, 1987. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. --- US$ 7.00

THOMPSON, Virgil. A Virgil Thompson Reader - NY, Houghton-Mifflin, 1981, 1st edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. --- US$ 25.00

[VERDI] Hans Busch. Verdi's Opera. The History of an Opera in Letters and Documents - Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1978, 1st printing. Very fine in a very good dust jacket (no tears, some rubbing). 743 letters and 14 documents detailing the creation, performance and aftermath of the opera Aida extending over the period from 1868 to 1891. (Aida premiered in Cairo in 1871) --- US$ 20.00

WATSON, Derek. Richard Wagner: A Biography - NY, McGraw-Hill, 1983, 1st PB printing (originally published by Macmillan in 1979. Fine in pictorial wraps. --- US$ 10.00

WELLESZ, Egon. Arnold Schoenberg - NY, Greenwood, 1970. (1st Greenwood reprint of the 1925 publication.) Fine, no dust jacket - as issued. --- US$ 20.00



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