1955. Published as Foreword to The Long Playing Record Guide, 1955. The LP “has intensely stimulated the musical... Read More about Typescript foreword to “De Motte’s Long-Playing Phonographic Record Guide,”...
Price: $1,000
Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press for Private Distribution, [October], 1897. First edition, number 41 of 100 copies. RARE — One of 100 Copies. Read More about Myopia Songs & Waltzes With Winchester and Hamilton Chat
Price: $500
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1830. "Neue, unveränderte Ausgabe". Third (revised) edition (first published 1802 and 1817). The Father of Acoustics. Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) was a German physicist, amateur musician and instrument maker. Fascinated by the phenomenon of sound, Chladni estimated the speed of sound and is now famous..... Read More about Die Akustik
Price: $1,750
Carls[---indecipherable]: 1846. Read More about Choix d'airs pour une Flûte avec accompagnement de Guitare
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Manchester: Printed and sold at R. Andrews, nd. Signed by Andrews at bottom of the title-page. Read More about The Congressional Psalmist, Containing Favorite Hymn Tunes, arranged for Treble & Bass...
Price: $150
Venice: Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1770. No Copy in OCLC. A truly magnificent and well-preserved example of this genre of liturgical printing in both red and black, which, in design and format, carried on with the manuscript tradition, but which, by the late 18th century, had already become impractical. For obvious..... Read More about Antiphonarium Romanum de tempore et sanctis ad normam Breviarii ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii...
Price: $5,000
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1864]. Sometimes known by the wrapper title: Arkansas Traveller's Song Book. Includes Mose Carr's “The Arkansas Traveller”. Read More about The Arkansas Traveler's Songster
Price: $450
New York: May 17, 1960. Read More about Portrait photograph of Harold Arlen
Price: $2,600
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874. First Edition. Interesting inscription, "Purchased at a concert given by some of the students from Hampton .....Brooklyn" These concerts were a fund raising campaign for Virginia Hall. Read More about Hampton and Its Student by Two of Its Teachers With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, arranged by...
Price: $150
Chicago and New York: McKinley Music Company, 1897. Turn-of-the-Century Sheet Music. “How many times I've wandered with a home-made rod and line / To the softly running brook and shady glen...”. An attractive turn-of-the-century angling item. Read More about When I Was a Boy: sheet music
Price: $150
New York: Alfred Scott Publisher, [1946]. First Edition. Read More about Carnegie Hall Program, SIGNED BY CLAUDIO ARRAU
Price: $200
New York: Alfred Scott Publisher, [1945]. First Edition. Read More about Carnegie Hall Program, SIGNED BY CLAUDIO ARRAU
Price: $200
London: Chatto & Windus, Piccadilly, 1888. First edition, Number 45 of only 100 copies on Large Paper. Read More about Modern Street Ballads
Price: $250
Los Angeles: 29 March 1993. "if it was easy everyone would be doing it" Responding to Hartley's enquiry into the importance of education to his career. The Cowboy-singer responded "I have always considered a good education extrememly important and one of the best tools to take along with you in..... Read More about Typed letter signed "Gene"
Price: $150
Glasgow: John S. Marr, 1866. First edition. Read More about One Hundred Songs
Price: $100
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New York/ Boston: G. Schirmer, 1918. First edition, sheet music. Read More about WULL YE COME IN EARLY SPRING. Song. Poem by William Barnes. [Music by] John Alden Carpenter....
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London: Princes Theatre, St. James's Square, n.d [received 20 Nov. 1849]. Notifying the editor of Fraser's that he and a friend will be places on the Dramatic Free List of the Theatre and that they would appreciate his friendly support. Morris (1800-1856) was an actor and also wrote several comedies..... Read More about Autograph letter in the third person “Mr. Morris Barnett and Mr. John Barnett”
Price: $60
London: Printed & Sold by J. Fentum No. 78 corner of Salisbury Street, Strand, n.d. [c. 1770-1781]. A Jovial Jig to TNUC. A very rare bawdy song issued by Fentum, music engraver, seller and publisher, who was at this address from ca. 1770-1781. The key is in F, the meter..... Read More about T N U C or the Roundelay
Price: $1,750
Newburyport: Daniel Bayley, 1771. The Seventh Edition, with Additions. Bayley published "editions and issues of Tans'ur's The Royal Melody Complete, Williams's Universal Psalmodist and Tansur-Williams-Bayley's The American Harmony that appeared in New England between 1767 and 1774, thereby creating a major bibliographic tangle. Because some of the same engraved plates..... Read More about The American Harmony: or, Royal melody complete ... The Seventh Edition, with Additions. By...
Price: $2,000
À Vienne: chez Hoffmeister & Comp; à Leipsic :; Chez Hoffmeister et Kühnel au Bureau de musique, [1802]. First edition thus. Publisher's Catalogue No 110 & 111. Price engraved titles: 1 Rthlr. Beethoven's septet for woodwinds, arranged for string quintet by Hoffmeister and published thus for the first time. Read More about Quintetto pour deux violons, deux altos et violoncelle ... Oeuvre 20 No. I [ ... No. II
Price: $500
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Bonn: bey N. Simrock, n.d. [ca. 1803]. Later issue (?0 of ca. 1803 ed., without the price and publisher's no. on title page. The exact date of the composition of Opus 48 (six songs for voice and piano) has not been definitely established, but the last was finished no later..... Read More about Sechs Lieder von [Christian Fürchtegott] Gellert, am Klavier zu singen ... [Opus No. 48
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New York: Feb. 18, 1954. Belafonte's film and singing career was taking off -- in 1954 he landed a role in the film Carmen Jones, and in the year Van Vechten photographed him in this series, Belafonte was starring in the Broadway musical "John Murray Anderson's Almanac", for which he..... Read More about Portrait Photograph of Harry Belafonte in "Almanac"
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London: 1881-1914. A massive and nearly complete run of this weekly bell-ringing resource, published in London from 1881 to 1915. OCLC records only copies in the British Library and the National Library of Scotland. Read More about The Bell News and Ringers’ Record. A Journal of the Ringing Exercise; and Compendium of...
Price: $4,500
Edinburgh: Printed for the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 1951. First edition, one of 320 copies, no. 58. Read More about A Bibliography of the Musical and Literary Works of Hector Berlioz 1803-1869. With Histories of...
Price: $175
[Thame, Oxfordshire: n.d., ca. 1830s]. A musical notebook beautifully bound in the Regency style, belonging to Sophia Elizabeth Wykehanm, 1st Baroness Wenman of Thame Park (1790-1870). She was an early love interest of the future King WIlliam IV — when he later ascended the throne he revived the title of..... Read More about Manuscript music album
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Marburg und Frankfurt: Brönner, 1771. Read More about Neu vermehrt und vollständiges Gesang-Buch, worinnen sowohl die Psalmen Davids nach Ambrosii...
Price: $450