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

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...

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

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...

New York: Alfred Scott Publisher, [1945]. First Edition. Read More about Carnegie Hall Program, SIGNED BY CLAUDIO ARRAU

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"

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....

n.p. [Paris?]: n.d [ca. 1920-1954]. Inscribed to his Sister. A lyrical piece in A minor, with a central section in A major, composed for the piano and inscribed by Lionel Barrymore to his sister: “Dédieé à Mlle. Ethel Barrymore.” Barrymore composed a variety of music, from solo pieces to large..... Read More about Autograph music manuscript, "Ossity Hongroise, op. trente"

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...

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

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...

[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

New York: Boosey and Hawkes, [1964]. First editon. Signed by Rorem. Signed by Ned Rorem on the first page of the score. Read More about Visits to St. Elizabeths (1950) Bedlam). For Medium Voice and Piano. Music by Ned Rorem. Text by...