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CARL NIELSEN AND THE IDEA OF MODERNISM.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010. 8vo.,pp. xix, 314, pictorial hardcover, b/w illustrations, musical examples and tables; ownership autograph to front paste down endpaper, a very good copy. No 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 HISTORY OF BYZANTINE MUSIC AND HYMNOGRAPHY
Oxford University Press. Second edition, revised and enlarged, 8vo., pp.xiv,vii461, red cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 7 b/w plates; author’s obituary neatly pasted in to front paste-down endpaper, with neat ink ownership autograph above, review of the volume pasted to rear endpapers, causing undulation to final few plate leaves, a very good, clean copy in a very good price-clipped dust-jacket.
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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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PIPES AND ACTIONS: Some Organ Builders in the Midlands and beyond.
Lincoln: Laurence Elvin, 1995. Signed copy, 8vo., burgundy cloth, gilt, b/w illustrations, b/w frontispiece; author’s signature to front-free endpaper, a fine copy, in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, with sunning to spine, otherwise near-fine.
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MUSICA BRITANNICA A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF MUSIC XCVIII.
Richard Dering Motets and Anthems.
London: Stainer and Bell, 2015. 4to.,pp. xxxi,135, burgundy hardcover, gilt lettering, musical score; neat pencil annotation to front paste down endpaper, a near-fine copy. No dust-jacket.
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CEOL MOR NOTATION.
A New and Abbreviated System of Musical Notation for the Piobaireachd, As Played on the Highland Bagpipe, With Examples.
Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1975. Republished, xi,399, red cloth, gilt, musical score; light toning to margins of endpapers and to edges of text block, a very good copy, in a good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which has a closed but creased tear to rear, in a v shape extending half way down to centre of rear jacket, lightly sunned to spine, with rubbing and light wear to corners and a small tear to rear lower margin.
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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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BISHOP AND SON ORGAN BUILDERS.
The Story of J.C. Bishop and his Successors.
Lincoln: Laurence Elvin, 1984. Signed by the author, small 4to., pp.356, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 101 b/w plates to the rear of volume, further in-text illustrations; small typed reference note to front paste-down endpaper, very good indeed, in a very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is sunned to spine and margins.
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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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THE ORGAN MUSIC OF J.S. BACH. Three Volumes.
Volume I: Preludes, Toccatas, Fantasias, Fugues, Sonatas, Concertos and Miscellaneous Pieces (BWV 525-598, 802-805, etc). Volume II: Works based on Chorales (BWV 599-771, etc). Volume III: A Background.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Three volumes, the set, 8vo.,pp. 365; 357; 309, navy cloth, gilt, musical score figures; ownership print out stuck down to front free endpapers of each volume, otherwise clean and very good, in very good dust-jacket, volume I is price-clipped, volume III is lightly sunned to spine and extremities, lightly rubbing to extremities, overall a very good set.
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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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J.S. BACH'S GREAT EIGHTEEN ORGAN CHORALES
Oxford: University Press, 2001. 8vo., pp.xiii,171, silver hardcover, lettered in green, multiple b/w facsimiles and musical scores; slight vertical crease to spine, very slightly rubbed but otherwise a near fine copy, in a very good plus unclipped dust- jacket.
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