Music & Musicals - Music History and Theory

Britten and Auden in the Thirties - The Year 1936

Donald Mitchell - ed

Boydell & Brewer

1936 was a critical year in the Britten/Auden relationship which reshaped and redefined artistic direction in the immediate pre-war period - New Edition - 19 b/w illustrations - 194 pages

$25.99

The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia

John Whiteoak & Aline Scott-Maxwell - eds

Currency Press

The Currency Companion to Music and Dance in Australia is unique in its comprehensiveness and its recognition of cultural diversity and community In Dr Whiteoak's words - "Instead of taking a Who's Who appro...

$23.99

Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making

Frank Hubbard

Used Copy

Unique, seminal and comprehensive

$55

Journey Towards Music

Victor Gollancz - A Memoir - 37 illustrations

Used Copy

$19.99

Pleasures of Music

Jacques Barzun

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An Anthology of Writing about Music and Musicians from Cellini to Bernard Shaw

$29.99

The History of Opera - 4CDs

Richard Fawkes read by Robert Powell

Naxos AudioBooks

The history of Opera on 4 Audio CDs ... Opera began at the end of the 16C when a group of Italians tried to recreate how they felt the Ancient Greeks might have set words to music and it has since fascinate...

$29.99

Opera 66

Charles Osborne - ed

Used Copy

Articles & Essays

$29.99

Medieval Song

James J Wilhelm

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An Anthology of Hymns and Lyrics from the writings of the Late Roman Empire to the Hundred Years

$35

Three Classics in the Aesthetics of Music

Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater - Debussy

Monsieur Croche the Dilettante Hater (Debussy) & Sketch of a New Esthetic Music (Busoni) & Essays Before a Sonata (Ives)

$19.99

Responses

David Cairns

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Collection of essays - composers & performers & conductors & orchestras - published 1973

$27.99

The Callas Legacy - 1949-73

John Ardoin

Used Copy

$22.99

Music Survey New Series 1949-1952 - 1st 1981 Faber Music - d/j 1 inch closed tear

Donald Mitchell & Hans Keller - eds

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$65

Evenings in the Orchestra

Hector Berlioz - Penguin pb 1963

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$19.99

In Search of Chopin's Poland - Celebration of the life of Poland's first composer - HARDBACK

Iwo & Pamela Zaluski

DanceBooks

A Celebration of the life of Poland's first composer in his native land in words and pictures on the 150th anniversary of his death

$44.95

Festival of Opera - 130 synopses of opera plots

Henry Simon

Used Copy

Pub 1957

$29.99

The Music Teacher's Companion - A Practical Guide - The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

Paul Harris & Richard Crozier

MusicSales

The essential handbook for instrumental and singing teachers. All teachers will find it relevant whether they are working at home or in schools, full-time or part-time, teaching individuals or groups It c...

$22.99

From the World of Music - A selection of Weekly articles

Ernest Newman

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$27.99

British Music of Our Time

A.L. Bacharach - published 1951

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$19.99

Prepare To Shed Them Now - The Ballads of George R Sims

Arthur Calder-Marshall - ed

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The book includes an introduction by Calder-Marshall. Seventeen of the best ballads by George R. Sims illustrated with sepia prints including some of lantern slides that were used at public recitals of th...

$39.99

Let's Make an Opera - The Story of The Young Reader's Guide to Music

Adapted by Benjamin Britton's librettist Eric Crozier

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$18.99