Mozart's Operas, A Critical Study by Edward J Dent, A study of Idomeneo, Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, La Clemenza di Tito, and Die Zauberflote; frontispiece of W A Mozart protected by ricepaper and 8 other b/w plates (Geoffrey Cumberlege, OUP, London, 2nd Edition, 1947) No ISBN. Used hardcover book in poor torn price-clipped d/j, 276 pages, music shop stamp on fep, boards worn on edges, corners bumped, foxing on eps and edges of pages and also on some pages, else good.
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Mr Gay's London, With Extracts from the Proceedings at the Sessions of the Peace, and Oyer and Terminer for the City of London and County of Middlesex in the Years 1732 and 1733 by A P Herbert, The Proceedings take us behind the scenes of 18th Century London, and throw fresh light on Gay's "The Beggar's Opera", as all the ingredients of the opera are there - the highwaymen, the informers, the pickpockets, the hussies; Mr Gay's story becomes terribly real and true (Ernest Benn, London, 2nd imp, 1949) Used hardcover book in price-clipped d/j,136 pages, d/j is fairly tattered on edges and corners, marked red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, corners bumped, light foxing throughout, else good.
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Music By Computers edited by Heinz von Foerster & James W Beauchamp, A pioneering work in its field; papers by various specialists in music & computers presented at the 1966 Fall Joint Computer Conference; 4 vinyl records in back pocket (First Ed.1969 John Wiley & Sons) ISBN 047910309. Used hardcover book in poor torn d/j, 139pp, book in good condition, foxing on eps and page edges.
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Music In the Classic Period (Prentice Hall History of Music Series) by Reinhard G Pauly (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1965) Used softcover book, 214 pages, page edges soiled, corners curled, else very good.
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Music In the United States: A Historical Introduction (Prentice Hall History of Music Series) by H Wiley Hitchcock, An expanded revision of Hitchcock's comprehensive introductory survey of music in the United States from Colonial times to the present; the book is organized into 3 main chronological divisions: to 1820, 1820 - 1920, and 1920 to the present; deals with both "serious" and popular music, including developments in jazz and rock (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 2nd edition, 1969) ISBN 0136083986. Used hardcover book in poor torn d/j, 286 pages, ex-library with the usual marks and stamps, front free endpaper has been neatly torn out, tape marks on eps, soiling on page edges, else pages are very good.
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Music On Record by F W Gaisberg foreword by Compton MacKenzie, The story of the early years of music recording for the gramophone; illustrated with many b/w photographs of the people and methods of the time (Robert Hale, London, 2nd imp., 1947) Used hardcover book, no d/j, 269 pages, foxing on eps and 1st and last few pages, blue cloth covers worn especially on edges, corners bumped, soiling and foxing to page edges, else pages are very good.
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Music, Movement And The Young Child by Heather Gell illustrated by Edith Lanser and 8 half-tone plates (Australasian Publ Co., Sydney, First Edition, 1949)  Used hardcover book in fair d/j, 196 pages, ex-library with the usual marks and stamps, d/j is soiled with heavy edge wear and chips, small pieces missing from d/j at both ends of spine, foxing on some pages and edges of pages, bookshop bookplate inside cover, boards worn on edges, corners bumped, pages tanned, else good.
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Musical Composition For Pleasure by Percy M Young (Hutchinson of London, First Edition, 1961) Used hardcover book in fair price-clipped d/j, 166 pages, d/j is soiled and has wear and chips on edges, darkened on spine,  corners knocked, bookshop bookplate inside cover, foxing on eps and edges of pages, else good.
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Opera In The Twentieth Century, Sacred, Profane, Godot by Ethan Mordden, Tracing the rise of modern music drama from its 19th century Wagnerian peak, Mordden shows how modern opera has evolved along two revolutionary lines of development; first, the increasing importance of the poetry in relation to the music, and second, the blending of the traditional themes of classical opera with the contemporary emergence of surrealism and vernacular comedy; within this analytical framework Mordden examines the significant works of Puccini, Strauss, Debussy, Poulenc, Britten and Henze as well as the twelve tone experiments of Schoenberg, Berg and their disciples (OUP, New York, 1978) ISBN 0195022882. Used hardcover book in poor insect-damaged and price-clipped d/j, 357 pages, book itself is very good with just light foxing on edges of pages.
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Opera Tunes To Remember by Florence M Clark illustrated by Helen Monro, stories of nearly a score of famous operas accompanied, at the points where they occur, by extracts from the music of the more celebrated airs, motifs & themes (reprint, 1951, Thomas Nelson & Sons, London) slim hardcover in price-clipped d/j, 104pp, light soiling & foxing, else in very good condition.
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Rolling Thunder Logbook by Sam Shepard, This is Shepard's rollicking account of Bob Dylan's tour Rolling Thunder Revue made through the Northeast USA in 1975; a rare, behind-the-scenes book at Bob Dylan and the people around him; lots of b/w photographs (Penguin Books, 1977) ISBN 0140047506. Used softcover book, 184 pages, cover is soiled, worn on edges and creased, corners knocked, foxing on edges of pages, else good.
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Schoenberg And His School, The Contemporary Stage Of The Language Of Music by Rene Leibowitz translated from the French by Dika Newlin (Philosophical Library, New York, 1949) Used hardcover book in poor torn d/j, 305 pages, page edges have tanned, red cloth covers worn on extremities, else book is very good.
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Sound And Symbol, Music and the External World by Victor Zuckerkandl translated from the German by Willard R Trask (1956 Bollingen Series XLIV, Pantheon Books) hardcover, no d/j, blue cloth with gilt emblem in bottom right corner, black cloth spine with gilt lettering, 399pp, very good.
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Ten Composers by Neville Cardus, Covers Schubert, Wager, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss, Cesar Franck, Debussy, Elgar, Delius and Sibelius (William Collins (Overseas) Ltd, Sydney, 1947) Used hardcover book, no d/j, 190 pages, good grey cloth covers, bookplate inside cover, name written on fep, foxing on edges of pages, else very good.
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That The Medals And The Baton Be Put on View, The Story of a Village Band 1875-1975 by Henry Livings, Recruitment, rehearsal and the full excitement of brass band performances; also an anecdotal account of Dobcross Band, from near Oldham, Lancashire, the centenary of which is 1975; b/w photographs (1975 David & Charles, Newton Abbot, UK) ISBN 0715370715, hardcover book in d/j, 96pp, foxing.
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The Book Of Music edited by Gill Rowley, Illustrated throughout with photographs and original drawings by Sally Launder, Laura Rogers and David Worth; covers all aspects of music and its history (New Burlington Books, London, 1977) ISBN 0906286344. Used hardcover book in d/j, 192 pages, d/j has a little wear on edges, especially at top and bottom of spine, foxing on eps and 1st and last few pages, else very good. This book weighs over one kilogram.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Music by Percy A Scholes (OUP, London, reprint 1977) ISBN 0193113074. Used softcover book, 636 pages, a few very small chips & creases in spine, else in fine condition.
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Opera by Harold Rosenthal & John Warrack (OUP, London, reprint 1977) ISBN 0193113120. Used softcover book, 446 pages, a few very small chips at top of spine, else in fine condition.
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The Dream Of Self-Destruction, Wagner's Ring And The Modern World by R L Rather, The author explores the mythic, conceptual significance of the themes in Wagner's music-drama 'The Ring of the Nibelung'; includes an account of Wagner's psychosocial analysis of the Oedipus myth in relation to the structure and meaning of the 'Ring', and his call for a better balance between male and female principles; Rather also provides a demonstration of the unity of Wagner's social theory, as well as an account of some generally overlooked relationships between Jewish ethnocentrism and the rising tide of theories of Nordic supremacy in 19th-Century Europe and America (Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, First Edition, 1979) ISBN 0807104957. Used hardcover book in d/j, 215 pages, d/j is soiled, worn & chipped on edges and in corners, book itself is very good, with only light foxing on edges of pages.
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The Evolution Of Harmony, A Treatise on the Material of Musical Composition, it's Gradual Growth and Elementary Use by C H Kitson (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, OUP, London, reprint of 2nd ed, 1953) Used hardcover book in price-clipped d/j, 456 pages, d/j is chipped at corners and both ends of spine, name & address of previous owner on fep, light soiling on edges of pages, else very good.
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The Listener's Book On Harmony by Lawrence Abbott, Meant not only for the serious students of music, but also for those vast numbers of people who get an immense amount of pleasure out of music without having a technical knowledge of its intricacies; to sharpen their enjoyment by seasoning it with understanding (George G Harrap in association with B.U.E. Ltd, London, reprint, October 1943) Used hardcover book, no d/j, 237 pages, blue cloth covers with white lettering on spine, foxing on some pages and on edges of pages, corners bumped, else good.
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The Musical Detectives by Irene Gass & R J McGregor, illustrated with line drawings by Valerie Sweet (Geoffrey Cumberlege, OUP, London, first edition, 1950) Used small hardcover book, no d/j, 147 pages, in fair condition: blue cloth covers are soiled, faded and discoloured, spine darkened although the silver lettering is good, covers knocked on edges, spine damaged at top, front and back endpapers have been torn out, heavy foxing on intro pages and last page, occasional spot of foxing on pages, foxing on edges of pages, name on half title page and also on index page, else pages are good.
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The Natalia Sats Children's Musical Theatre by Victor Victorov (Raduga Publ, Moscow, 1986) ISBN 505000683X. Used hardcover book in d/j, 141 pages, covered in clear plastic sleeve, tape marks on eps, d/j worn on edges, else very good.
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The Oxford Dictionary Of Music by Michael Kennedy (OUP, Oxford, revised edition, 1997) ISBN 0198691629. Used hardcover book in d/j, 985 pages, ex-library with the usual marks and stamps, covered in clear plastic sleeve, Fep has been neatly torn out, else in very good condition. This book weighs almost 2 kilograms.
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Twentieth-Century Music: An Introduction by Eric Salzman general editor H Wiley Hitchcock (Printice Hall History of Music Series, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1967) No ISBN. Used softcover book, 196 pages, covers and page edges are lightly soiled, corners curled, light foxing on edges of pages, else good.
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The Literature Of Rock III, 1984-1990 With Additional Material For The Period 1954-1983 by Frank Hoffmann & B Lee Cooper, A Bibliography (The Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, NJ, 1995) ISBN 081082762X. Used hardcover book, 1004pp. Soiling on lower corner of pages, else very good.
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The Richard Wagner Centenary In Australia: Miscellanea Musicologica Adelaide Studies in Musicology, Volume 14 edited by Peter Dennison, Papers read at the Richard Wagner Centenary Conference held at the Faculty of Music at the University of Melbourne 25-27 August 1983.  Contents are: Lietmotive: Wagner's Points of Departure and their Antecedents (Andrew D McCredie);  Musical Structuring and its Evolution in Wagner's 'Ring' (Peter Dennison);  The Norns' Scene in 'Gotterdammerung': A Cycle within a Cycle (Warren Drake);  The Ending of 'The Ring': A Synopsis (John Deathridge);  Music and Stagecraft in Wagner's 'Ring' (Michael Ewans);  The Archetypical Motives of Cosmogony and Apocalypse in 'The Ring' (Sally Kester);  Liebestod: The Literary Background of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' (Gerhard Schulz);  The Ideological Implications of Wagner's Changes to Wilfram's 'Parzival' (Silke Beinssen-Hesse;  Richard Wagner's Letter to Australia (Jennifer Marshall);  Two Centenary Productions of 'The Ring' at Bayreuth (Michael Ewans & Roger Covell);  Cataloguing Wagner (John Deathridge)  (University of Adelaide, 1985) Used softcover book, 202 pages, light soiling & edge wear to cover, else very good.
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The St. James Opera Encyclopedia, A Guide To People And Works edited by John Guinn & Les Stone (Visible Ink Press, Detroit, 1997) ISBN 0787610356. Used hardcover book in d/j, 958 pages, ex-library with the usual marks and stamps, small section cut from lower edge of fep, covered in clear contact, light soiling on edges of pages, else very good. This book weighs 2.2 kilograms.
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The World Of Rock by John Gabree, An explosive statement on the biggest cultural phenomenon to ever hit the world; they're all here - the youth who reshaped the ballads of country & western music, traditional folk lyrics, pulsating tempos of rhythm and blues, sweet soul, and rock and roll, to tell it like it is about sex, war, civil rights and black protest; covers the Beatles, the Supremes, Little Richard, the Monkees, Elvis Presley, the Rolling Stones, the Byrds, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beach Boys, the Doors, the Lovin' Spoonful, Ray Charles, the Who, the Mamas and Papas,  and many others (Fawcett Publications, 1968) No ISBN. Used small mass market paperback book, 176 pages, covers soiled, pages are very good.
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