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EDWARD ELGAR - THE WINDFLOWER LETTERS Correspondence with Alice Caroline Stuart Wortley and her Family.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. 8vo., pp.xv,352, hardcover, gilt, b/w plate; a fine copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket, with light creasing to extremities.
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PIPING TRADITIONS OF THE INNER ISLES OF THE WEST COAST OF SCOTLAND.
Edinburgh: John Donald, 2012. 8vo.,pp. x,372, paperback, b/w illustrations; a very good copy.
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TREE OF STRINGS: crann nan teud. A history of the harp in Scotland.
Temple: Kinmor Music, 1992. 8vo.,pp. vii,247, paperback, b/w illustrations; creasing to corners, a very good copy.
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ROGER NORTH ON MUSIC. Being a Selection from his Essays written during the years c.1695-1728.
London: Novello and Company, 1959. 8vo., pp.xxviii,372, pink cloth with stamped title label to spine, gilt, b/w frontispiece and eight further b/w plates; ink ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper, small note to reverse of frontispiece, some foxing to edges, light sunning and splash-marking to spine, else very good, in unclipped dust-jacket, which shows foxing and light surface soil to the pale paper, as well as chipping at the extremities, good(+).
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FRENCH OPERA: A Short History.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. 8vo.,pp. x,366, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a very good copy, in a lightly rubbed and soiled pictorial dust-jacket, otherwise very good.
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SINGING IN STYLE.
A Guide to Vocal Performance Practices.
USA: Yale University Press, 2006. 8vo., pp.,xii,356, red hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; a fine fresh copy in very good unclipped dust-jacket.
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R.V.W. A BIOGRAPHY OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS.
London: Oxford University Press, 1965. 8vo.,pp. xiv,448, green cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece, pictorial endpapers; lightly toned and foxed to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a good+ unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is rubbed to extremities with wear to head and foot of spine and corners, lightly sunned to spine.
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THE FURTWANGLER RECORD.
Portland: Amadeus Press, 1996. Reprint, 8vo., pp. 376, hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations, decorative endpapers; foxing to edges, a few very light spots to endpapers, otherwise internally clean, a very good copy in a vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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Richard Strauss: A Critical Commentary On His Life And Works [Set of Three Volumes]
London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1978. Corrected reprint, three volumes, 8vo., pp.xv,462;xi,452;xxi,552, blue hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispieces and plates; top edges a little dusty, else a very good, fresh set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spines of Volumes II and III, else very good.
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THE ORGAN AS A MIRROR OF ITS TIME.
North European Reflections, 1610-2000.
Oxford University Press, 2002. 8vo., pp.xvii,374, brown faux-leather, gilt, with accompanying CD Rom; a fresh and near-fine copy. No dust-jacket, as issued.
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A DIRECTORY OF COMPOSERS FOR ORGAN. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition.
Swindon: John Henderson (Publishing) Ltd. 8vo., pp.xii,789, red faux-leather hardcover, gilt; a fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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THE KEYBOARD MUSIC OF J.S. BACH.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1993. 8vo., pp.xv,475, red cloth lettered in silver; fine, in near-fine unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly sunned to spine.
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WILLIAM BYRD. Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.
Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997. 8vo., pp.xvi,480, green hardcover, gilt, b/w frontispiece; slight bowing to front board, with slight bruising to lower corner of front board, a very good, clean copy, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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REASSURING EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PROTESTANTS -
The Librettist’s Intended Message for Handel’s Messiah, Explored Within the Context of Eighteenth Century Belief.
York: Quacks Books, 2017. 8vo., pp.viii,522, paperback; signed by author to title, a fine copy.
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MAURICE DURUFLE, 1902-1986.
The Last Impressionist.
Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2002. 8vo.,pp. xv,215, pictorial hardcover, b/w plates and figures; lightly sunned to spine, a very good copy. No dust-jacket.
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JOHN TAVERNER, TUDOR COMPOSER.
Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979. 8vo., pp.xvi,283, pictorial cloth, b/w plates; a very good, fresh copy. (No dust-jacket).
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PURCELL STUDIES.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 8vo.,pp. xii,305, hardcover, yellow title block to spine with black and yellow lettering, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; a near-fine copy, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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PERFORMING THE MUSIC OF HENRY PURCELL.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. 8vo.,pp. xvi,302, hardcover, gilt, b/w plates, tables and figures; brief typed annotation on paper label to front paste down endpaper, otherwise near-fine, in a near-fine unclipped dust-jacket.
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ZECHARIAH BUCK, Mus. D., Cantaur.
Organist and Master of the Choristers at Norwich Cathedral, 1817-1877. A Centenary Memoir.
London: Jarrold and Sons, 1899. 8vo., pp.xiv,96,(ii), bound in quarter leather with bevelled green cloth boards, gilt, b/w plates with tissue-guards; foxing to prelims, occasional foxing within, ink ownership autograph to front paste-down endpaper, webbing visible between frontispiece and title, rudimentary adhesive green linen tape reinforcement to spine and inner margins of boards, rubbing to extremities and to margins of boards, a good copy.
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THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH ORGAN.
Cambridge University Press, 1996. Large 8vo., pp.xxii,407, black hardcover, gilt, 78 b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.
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