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Lloyd Webber Andrew
The Premiere Collection Encore
Polydor 1993. CD Music. Fine copy. CD music. Polydor/Really Useful Records. 1993. 16 tracks. 59 minutes. Original liner notes missing; else fine copy. <br /><br />The singers include José Carreras Sarah Brightman Michael Ball Barbra Streisand Plácido Domingo and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Polydor
Bookseller reference : CD127
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Locke Elizabeth N.
ART INFLUENCES MUSIC.
New York: Vantage Press 1970. Stated first edition. Clay cloth. 8vo. pp. 76. Bibliography. Near Fine/Very Good/Unclipped price in mylar. Jacket has light soil and rubbing. New York: Vantage Press, (1970). hardcover
Bookseller reference : OWBART112962
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Loder E. J.
The British Anchor. National Song.
Cramer Addison & Beale. Very Good-. N.D. Paperback. 5pp. Dust stained repair to spine slight edge wear. ; Sheet Music . Cramer, Addison & Beale paperback
Bookseller reference : 10999
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Loesberg John
Traditional Folksongs & Ballads of Scotland; Vol. Three
Cork: Ossian 1994. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Ossian Paperback
Bookseller reference : ABE3532 ISBN : 094600580x 9780946005802
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Loesser Frank
On a Slow Boat to China
New York: Melrose Music Corp. 1948. Unbound sheet music. Good/No Jacket. 3 pp. Cover shows light rubbing. Small tear in fold. Music is clean and unmarked but lightly tanned Melrose Music Corp. unknown
Bookseller reference : 860227
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Loesser Frank
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
London: Bradbury Wood Ltd 1942. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket as published. 8.5" x 11. SHEET MUSIC. 4pp. Piano Voice. Previous owners name on front top right. Please note that this is an original version and not a modern reproduction. All orders processed and shipped promptly from the UK usually within 24 hours. <br/> <br/> Bradbury Wood Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 003161
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Loft Abram
Violin And Keyboard: The Duo Repertoire Volume I From The Seventeenth Century to Mozart & Volume II From Beethoven to the Present
Portland Oregon: Amadeus Press 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. cloth. 361pgs. and 418pgs. Indexes. Neat & clean two volume set. Vol. I is Near Fine/Near Fine; Vol. II Very Good/Very Good with a slight lean to the spine and light bit of edge wear. <br/><br/> Amadeus Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : MUS006 ISBN : 0931340381 9780931340383
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Logan Styles
Alexa: 3 Manuscripts: How to Program Alexa Amazon Echo Dot User Guide and Amazon Echo Dot: Programming your Alexa App
2017-02-21. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1543272355 ISBN : 1543272355 9781543272352
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Logan Styles
Amazon Echo Dot: The complete user guide and manual for quickly mastering your Amazon Echo Dot
2016-08-08. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1535002735n ISBN : 1535002735 9781535002738
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Logan Styles
Amazon Echo Dot: Programming Your Alexa App: 2017 User Guide for Operating Your Alexa App and Amazon Echo Dot
2016-03-02. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1537109715n ISBN : 1537109715 9781537109718
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Logan Styles
Bayes Theorem Examples: The Beginner's Guide to Understanding Bayes Theorem and
2016-03-03. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1535194596n ISBN : 1535194596 9781535194594
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Logan Styles
Black Hat Python: 2 Manuscripts—Hacking With Python and Wireless Hacking
2017-05-22. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1546873473n ISBN : 1546873473 9781546873471
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Logan Styles
Black Hat Python: 2 Manuscripts—Hacking With Python and Wireless Hacking
2017-05-22. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1546873473 ISBN : 1546873473 9781546873471
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Logan Styles
How to Program Alexa: Step-by-Step Guide to Programming Your Amazon Echo Dot and Alexa App for Exciting New Skills
2017-01-30. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1542861330n ISBN : 1542861330 9781542861335
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Logan Styles
Powershell: The Beginner's Guide to Mastering the Powershell Command Line and Learning to script tasks effortlessly
2016-12-18. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1541233212n ISBN : 1541233212 9781541233218
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Logan Styles
Powershell: The Beginner's Guide to Mastering the Powershell Command Line and Learning to script tasks effortlessly
2016-12-18. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1541233212 ISBN : 1541233212 9781541233218
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Logan Styles
Wireless Hacking: The Beginner's Guide to Hacking Wireless Networks
2017-01-02. New. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May be re-issue. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1542363152n ISBN : 1542363152 9781542363150
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Logan Styles
Wireless Hacking: The Beginner's Guide to Hacking Wireless Networks
2017-01-02. Good. Ships with Tracking Number! INTERNATIONAL WORLDWIDE Shipping available. May not contain Access Codes or Supplements. May be re-issue. May be ex-library. Shipping & Handling by region. Buy with confidence excellent customer service! unknown
Bookseller reference : 1542363152 ISBN : 1542363152 9781542363150
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Lomax Alan
Mister Jelly Roll Jazz Book Club. No. 1
Jazz Book Club 1956. Hb red boards 296pp b/w drawings.Fair light foxing on inside covers and endpapers. There is a decrepit dj which has split apart. Sub-headed: : The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz". The first volume in the Jazz Book Club series which was produced for members only. Hard Cover. Jazz Book Club Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 051821
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Lomax Alan
Mister Jelly Roll The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton New Orleans Creole and ''inventor of Jazz"
Duell Sloan and Pearce. Very Good- with no Dust Jacket. 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A wonderful book about a great muscian valuable for its content more than the condition. An uncancelled 32-cent postage stamp commemorative of Jelly Roll Morton pasted to title page. Page 247/248 is b/w profile of Jelly Roll. His arrangement complete with his ad libs of the song titled "Mamie's Blues" written by Mamie Desdume 3 pages ; "Winin' Boy Blues" followed by one lyric poem; "The Naked Dance" no words ; "King Porter Stomp" and many more including the ever famous "Jelly Roll Blues". Map endpapers showing the Guide to Jelly Roll's New Orleans around 1900. Book is solid and straight. Some biopredation on spine less so on top front board and rear board. Front panel and flap of DJ laid in. Also laid in are two newspaper clippings one is about copyrighting musical notes with pic of Louie 'Satchmo' Armstrong ; xerox copy of article in Texas Observer 2003; a subscription card to the Texas Observer with notes about jazz and the blues laid in at page 22. Another 'article' from where it doesn't say pasted to page 318 continuing on rear free endpaper. Underlinings and marginalia abound in this book. It isn't a far reach to say that the previous owner of this book was a devout fan of Jelly Roll Ferdinand J. Morton. Part of a large estate of an avid reader and collector of books who obviously read every one of them the clue being that they all have some amount of marginalia and underlining and the date read on the flypage. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages; 30231 . Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover
Bookseller reference : 30231
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LOMAX John A
COWBOY SONGS AND OTHER FRONTIER BALLADS
New York: Macmillan 1919. Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Duodecimo 414 pages pictorial orange cloth - lacks ffep; short tears in dj <br/><br/>The first serious collection of cowboy songs. Facsimile holographic letter of commendation by Theodore Roosevelt. "It is a work of real importance to preserve permanently this unwritten ballad literature of the back-country and the frontier -T.R." Lyrics of course but also the musical score for 15 or 20 of the best. Macmillan hardcover
Bookseller reference : DEMO015001I
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Lomax John A. and Alan
Folk Song U.S.A.: The 111 Best American Ballads
NY: Signet 1966. 4th printing. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. Tight tanned pages light age soil to exterior square. Appears unread. A few spots on back cover reading crease on spine light chipping on cover edges. . Back cover - "Compliments of Citizens Savings and Loan Association". "A rich sampling of the best of American folk music. 111 favorite ballads with words and musical arrangements for piano and guitar." Collected adapted and arranged by John A. and Alan Lomax. Music arrangements by Charles and Ruth Seeger. 510 Annotated indexed pages including Bibliography. Signet paperback
Bookseller reference : 13P003
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Long "Shorty" Emidio Vagnoni
SHORTY LONG SONG FOLIO
NY: Tannen Music Inc 1951. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 28pp; centerspread from 15 snapshots of Shorty the Santa Fe Rangers Santa Fe Ranch etc.; full-page photo portraits of Dolly Dimples inside back cover and Dolly with Shorty back cover as "Sweethearts of Santa Fe Ranch." Contains words and music to 12 songs including: Good Night Cincinnati and Good Morning Tennessee; Signed Sealed and Delivered; Cry Baby Blues; No Wars in Heaven; Tennessee Yodel Polka; &c. Green and white pictorial wrappers; prior owner's name on cover. 11.75" x 9" Shorty Long was born Emidio Vagnoni in Reading Pennsylvania in 1923. "He spent years in Santa Fe as the leader of the Santa Fe Rangers which appeared in the 1948 movie Powder River Gunfire. As a vocalist in the 1940s Long recorded many singles and in the 1950s he can be heard playing the piano behind Elvis Presley on such songs as 'One-Sided Love Affair.' He also played on Janis Martin's 1956 rockabilly hit 'My Boy Elvis'." courtesy of Masterworks Broadway. <br/><br/> Tannen Music, Inc paperback
Bookseller reference : 037986
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Longy Miquelle Renee b1897. b. 18
PRINCIPLES OF MUSICAL THEORY. Concord Series No. 12
Boston: E.C. Schirmer Stanhope Press 1947. Illustrated by music notation two fold out plates line drawings facsimile signature on dedication page. Stated 8th printing edition. c.1925. Green cloth black print and decoration. 8vo. pp. 101 1 1 Series Ad. Near Fine/No jacket. Traces of cap and corner wear no ownership. Daughter and successor to Georges Longy BSO principal oboist and founder of Longy School of Music Cambridge MA in 1915. Boston: E.C. Schirmer (Stanhope Press), (1947). hardcover
Bookseller reference : OWBPRI112248
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Looseley David
Popular Music in Contemporary France: Authenticity Politics Debate
: Berg Pub Ltd 2003. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Berg Pub Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 318090 ISBN : 185973636X 9781859736364
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Lopez Steve
The Soloist
New York: G.P Putnam's Sons 2008. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 273 pages. Lightly bumped at the upper fore-edge corner of the rear panel; jacket has a tiny tear at lower corner of the front panel at spine; slight touch of yellowing to pages. <br/><br/> G.P Putnam's Sons hardcover
Bookseller reference : 900483 ISBN : 0399155066 9780399155062
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Lopez Steve
The Soloist
U.S.A.: Berkley Books 2008. pages dull yellowed and edges soiled. binding loose and hinges cracked. edge wear with denting chips and tears. corners dented creased and split. covers worn with some random dents dings pox marks scratches creases ink chips scuff marks ect. covers creased from use. spine edges worn creased and chipped. general shelf wear. a good reading copy. remainder mark. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Fair . Berkley Books Paperback
Bookseller reference : 75491 ISBN : 0399155066 9780399155062
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Lorenzo Barcelata
Maria Elena
New York: Southern Music Pub. Co/Peer 1941. Good. Sheet Music. Spanish and English Text. WALTZ ENGLISH LYRIC BY S.K. RUSSELL POPULAR MUSIC ANTHOLOGIES AND SHEET MUSIC. Catalogs: Popular Music Anthologies and Sheet Musi. New York: Southern Music Pub. Co/Peer, 1941 unknown
Bookseller reference : 4670
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Lorin Hollander
Lorin Hollander at the Fillmore East: The Historic New York Concert of February 23 1969 Vinyl LP
USA: Angel Records 1969. USA SFO-36025. One stereo vinyl LP record in original gatefold sleeve No visible faults to record surfaces in Very Good sleeve with tiny split to head of spine and a bit of rubbing to edges. Hollander gives a spoken introduction. This is a live performance of the music of Bach Debussy Prokofiev played on the Baldwin Electronic Concert Grand. 1.6 JM Fo 25/6. Vinyl Lp. Very Good. Vinyl LP records. Angel Records Paperback
Bookseller reference : 91719
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LOSTALOT Alfred de
Dessins et modèles
Les arts du bois(sculpture sur bois-meubles)grand in 8 demi-chagrin rouge à nerfs, titre, caissons dorés, plats percaline rouge chagrinée, filets à froid en encadrement. Armées dorées, de la ville de Paris sur le premier plat, Faux-titre, titre, 144 pages, tranches dorées, 164 gravures à pleine page. Bibliothèque de la gazette des Beaux Arts J. ROUAM éditeur sans date, première page de garde incomplète, coiffe supérieure fatiguée
Bookseller reference : 10532
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Lou Leaman
Memories of Vienna
Edward B. Marks 1959. for hammond preset and spinet organs. AN ALBUM OF ITS GAYEST MOST NOSTALGIC SONGS POPULAR MUSIC ANTHOLOGIES AND SHEET MUSI POPULAR MUSIC ANTHOLOGIES AND SHEET MUSIC. Catalogs: Popular Music Anthologies and Sheet Musi. Edward B. Marks 1959 unknown
Bookseller reference : 1531
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Louis-Charles DEZOBRY
Dictionnaire pratique et critique de l'art épistolaire français
Avec des préceptes et des conseils sur chaque genre, plus de mille modèles choisis dans les monuments et les documents de la langue française et des remarques sur chaque lettre, première et seconde partie, Charles Delagrave et Cie éditeurs 1866.
Bookseller reference : ZNF-582
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Louise Cuyler
Emperor Maximilian I and Music
Oxford University Press London 1973 Very Good Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket. 257 pages 7.5" x 9" former library with all the usual faults otherwise a clean and tight copy with vinyl disc in sleeve. <br /><br /> Oxford University Press, London hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4062 ISBN : 0193152231 9780193152236
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Louvin Charlie
SIGNED PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPH OF CHARLIE LOUVIN OF THE GRAND OLE OPRY
Goodlettsville TN: Atlas Artist Bureau 1960. Original edition. Fine. Black-and-white photo of Charlie Louvin with his guitar inscribed and signed: "Best to Clara / Charlie Louvin. 10" x 8" Born July 7 1927 in Henager Alabama Charlie Louvin recorded from 1947 to 1962 with his brother Ira as the Louvin Brothers. In 1955 they became members of the Grand Ole Opry and churned out thirteen hits on the Billboard country chart followed by Charlie's 29 singles on the Billboard chart and four Grammy nominations. Charlie Louvin passed on January 26 2011. <br/><br/> Atlas Artist Bureau unknown
Bookseller reference : 035773
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Love Presley
Rock Lyric Quiz Book
Citadel 1994. Trade Paperback. Very Good . A compendium of the most memorable lyrics of rock 'n' roll here is a fun and challenging way for rock trivia fans to test their knowledge of the great songs of the '50s through the '90s. Whether it's the Motown Sound British Invasion Psychedelic Rock Punk or just plain Elvis here are lyrics in many different categories. Book is in very good condition only light edge wear but previous owner did bend it or roll it so the book doesn't lie flat. There are no creases just a slight curve which may work itself out after a while. Interior is clean and bright and binding tight. Citadel paperback
Bookseller reference : 110327 ISBN : 0806515279 9780806515274
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Lovell John Jr
Black Song: The Forge and the Flame
Macmillan & Co 1972. First printing. Black cloth binding gilt titles. 'The Story of how the Afro-American Spiritual Was Hammered Out.' This major scholarly work approaches the subject from the development of the lyrics not the melodies. Contents arranged chronologically and from the international perspective including African roots and influences of the spiritual on world culture. Includes detailed Source Notes Index to Spirituals. Book very good with spotting to foreedge and top edge soil minor stain to bottom of back board. DJ also very good with some edgewear one small tear at top edge. Scarce title. 686 pp. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book. Macmillan & Co Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 3703
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Low Back'd
Song sheet: LOW BACK'D CAR
Philadelphia: Thomas M. Scroggy 1850. Original edition. Very Good. Contains four verses in part: "When first I saw sweet Peggy / 'Twas on a Market Day / A low Back'd Car she drove and sat / Upon a tuft of hay." Typographic ornamental border. 9.75" x 5.75" Wolf American Song Sheets 1332b. <br/><br/> Thomas M. Scroggy unknown
Bookseller reference : 039439
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Lowe David A.
Callas As They Saw Her
Robson Books. 1987. Hardcover. 0860514110 . 264pp 40 plates. Ex library Endpaper removed stamps on verso of title page else very good in very good dust jacket. Recollections by fellow artists including Placido Domingo Joan Sutherland and Luchino Visconti. Discography and analysis of her greatest recordings. . Robson Books hardcover
Bookseller reference : 9270 ISBN : 0860514110 9780860514114
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Lowe Rachel
Frederick Delius: 1862-1934 a Catalogue of the Music Archive of the Delius Trust London
Delius Trust. Fine. 1974. Hardcover. 085162023X . a limited edition of 500. 182pp frontis illustrations facsimiles. . Delius Trust hardcover
Bookseller reference : 7095 ISBN : 085162023X 9780851620237
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Lowe Ruth
More Than Anything in the World
New York: Remick Music Corp. 1943. Very good plus with little wear. Striking illustration by Jorj Harris in orange and white. 4 pp. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Jorj Harris. Book. Remick Music Corp. Paperback
Bookseller reference : 5996
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Lowen Moyer Oyer
Exploring the Mennonite Hymnal: Handbook
Newton KS: Faith & Life Press 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Faith & Life Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : 180213-09
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Lowen Moyer Oyer
Exploring the Mennonite Hymnal: Handbook
Newton KS: Faith & Life Press 1983. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Faith & Life Press Paperback
Bookseller reference : A170404-20
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Lozano Ed
Easy Blues Rhythms for Guitar
Amsco 2002. CD present and unopened. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Amsco Paperback
Bookseller reference : 10031338 ISBN : 0825619017 9780825619014
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Lozano Ed
Easy Blues Solos for Guitar
Amsco 2002. CD present and unopened. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Amsco Paperback
Bookseller reference : 10031339 ISBN : 0825619025 9780825619021
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Lucas John
The Genius of Valhalla. The Life of Reginald Goodall
Boydell Press. New. 2009. Paperback. 9781843835172 . 245pp Illustrations. Reginald Goodall conducted the triumphant 1945 premiere of Britten's Peter Grimes but it was not until the Wagner performances of his last two decades that he became well known. In this update of his 1993 book Reggie John Lucas uses letters diaries and interviews with Goodall himself to unravel the mysteries of his early life and wartime Mosleyite sympathies; he also catalogues the frustrations of Goodall's years at Covent Garden and the positive critical responses to his Ring cycle. . Boydell Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 12742 ISBN : 1843835177 9781843835172
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Lucian; Turner Paul
True History and Lucius or the Ass
Indiana University Press. Near Fine. 1974. Soft Cover. 0253201764 . About new book unmarked but for stamp to inside rear cover and still stiff to open; in illustrated card covers with just a touch of shelfwear. 108 pp . Indiana University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 18195 ISBN : 0253201764 9780253201768
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Lucy C Lillie
The Story of Music and Musicians
Harper & Brothers Undated informal and personalised history of classical music told through the lives of some of the great composers anecdotal in style. Small faded patch on pictorial covers otherwise a good solid copy. Decorative Cloth. Good. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Harper & Brothers hardcover
Bookseller reference : 010624
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Ludwig van Beethoven ; Xaver Scharwenka arranger
Fantasia for Piano Chrous and Orchestra Op. 80
<p>Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy Op. 80" composed late in 1808 is sometimes described as a prototype of the "Symphony No. 9 Op. 125." The first two thirds of the work could be described as a concert piece for piano solo and orchestra. Only after 400 measures does the chorus enter with a tune that does bear some similarity to the renowned "Ode to Joy" - which was still 15 years in the future when ths work was composed. This new vocal score is a digitally enhanced reprint of the reduction prepared by the renowned pianist Xaver Scharwenka that was first issued by Breitkopf und Hartel Leipzig in 1915.</p><p>8.5 x 11 inches 36 pages.</p><p>Original issue - Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel 1915. Plate 27544</p> Serenissima Music, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : SER-036 ISBN : 1932419268 9781932419269
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Ludwig van Beethoven ; Carl Reinecke arranger ; Karel Torvik editor
Mass in C Op.86
<p>Commissioned by Price Esterhazy the patron of his teacher Joseph Haydn Beethoven's first major choral mass with orchestral accompaniment was generally dismissed as an inferior work by both patron and audience at the first performance in Eisenstadt on 13 September 1807. Later audiences nevertheless came to appreciate Beethoven's masterful contrapuntal writing which are a precursor to his towering Missa Solemnis composed 15 years later. This newly engraved vocal score features a superb piano reduction by Carl Reinecke and has been thoroughly edited and reviewed by Karel Torvik. The A4 size is ideal for vocalists choruses and rehearsal pianists alike.</p><p>Edwardsville: Serenissima Music 2007. Plate Z255891</p> Serenissima Music, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : SER-086 ISBN : 1932419764 9781932419764
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Ludwig van Beethoven ; Salomon Jadassohn arranger
Missa Solemnis Op. 123
<p>In April 1819 Beethoven's patron and pupil Archduke Rudolph was elected a cardinal and in June he was further elevated to Archbishop. The date of his formal installation was set for March 9 1820. As Beethoven’s interest in church music had developed and deepened he felt that this event presented the perfect occasion to express his appreciation for the Archduke’s benevolence by writing a composition. In a letter to the Archduke Beethoven wrote "The day on which a High Mass composed by me will be performed during the ceremonies solemnized for Your Imperial Highness will be the most glorious day of my life; and God will enlighten me so that my poor talents may contribute to the glorification of that solemn day." Beethoven immersed himself in the work completely devoting his mind and heart to the writing of this Mass. According his biographer Schindler Beethoven's personality changed at the beginning of the composition of the Missa Solemnis. Schindler described his state as "Erdenentrucktheit" an oblivion of everything earthly. He seemed to transport into another world during the compositional process as illustrated by Schindler's description of a visit to Beethoven. "In the living room behind a locked door we heard the master singing parts of the fugue in the Credo – singing howling stamping…. the door opened and Beethoven stood before us with distorted features calculated to excite fear. He looked as if he had been in mortal combat with the whole host of contrapuntists his everlasting enemies." After the date of the installation came and went without the completion of the Mass it became apparent to everyone including the Archbishop Rudolph that the impetus driving Beethoven to write the "Missa Solemnis" was of a greater purpose. The work ultimately received its premiere in St. Petersburg Russia on April 7 1824 at a benefit concert organized by another Beethoven patron Prince Nikolas Galitizin. Unabridged digitally enhanced reissue of the vocal score prepared by Salomon Jadassohn in ca.1876 to coincide with the full score from Beethoven's complete works issued by Breitkopf and Hartel starting in 1868.</p><p><ol><li>Kyrie</li><li>Gloria </li><li>Credo </li><li>Sanctus Benedictus </li><li>Agnus Dei </li></ol></p><p>8.27 x 11.69 inches 124 pages.</p><p>Original issue - Leipzig: Breitkopf & Hartel n.d.ca.1876. Plate V.A. 29</p> Serenissima Music, Inc. paperback
Bookseller reference : SER-055 ISBN : 1932419454 9781932419450
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