Music

London: Bayley & Ferguson, 1914 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1950 Beautifully written detailed history of the evolution of Italian Opera; Oratoria, Cantata, Chamber & Church Music, Concert Grosso, Concert with Solo instrument.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1953. Contents: Rattles and Clappers; Drums; Xylophones and 'Sansas'; Bull-Roarers and Spinning-Disks; Horns and Trumpets; Whistles, Flutes, and Vibrating Reeds; Reed-Flute Ensembles; The 'Gora', a Stringed-Wind Instrument; Stringed Instruments; Bushman and Hottentot Violins and the 'Ramkie'; Some European Instruments Played by 'Raw' Natives.. First South African Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1936 Rebound in a strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1939 Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: B.T. Batsford, 1968 First English Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Cassell, 1959 Kings of Jazz Series No. 1.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Ernest Benn, 1965 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: G.P. Putnam's Sons Rebound in strong library binding. nd. c1900.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: New English Library, 1993 First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Trübner & Co., 1875 Charles Godfrey Leland was born in Philadelphia in 1825. He was admitted to the bar in 1851, but turned to journalism. From 1869 to his death in 1903 he resided chiefly in England and Italy and investigated the Gypsies, a subject on which he wrote four valuable books between 1873 and 1891. Spine top repaired, but original. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Calder & Boyars, 1966 (1895-1982) German composer. He deliberately used ‘primitive’ rhythms in his best-known works, Carmina Burana (1937) and Catulli Carmina (1943), and the opera Trionfo di Afrodite (1953).. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: English Universities Press, 1955. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1913. Two volumes. German pianist and composer, wife of Robert Schumann. She was an outstanding interpreter of the works of her husband and of their friend Brahms. She composed chamber works, piano pieces and songs, mainly for her own concerts. Translated and abridged from the fourth German edition by Grace E Hadow with a preface by W.H. Hadow. Published in conjunctions with Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig. Rebound in strong library binding. Rare.. First English Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1940 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1968 1: Beginner's Harmony; Book 2: Basic Harmony and Modulation; Book 3: Style.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Fist, 1991 Seminal music fanzine with features and interviews with Z'ev Tom Vague, Sol Invictus, Al Jourgensen, Christina Berry etc. Folded once.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1997. Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions of promiscuous sexual behaviour among the low life of the New York punk scene of the 1970s. Lydia Lunch relays in explicit sexual detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of her sexual misadventures. Bound with red silk marker ribbon. Introduction by Hubert Selby Jr. "About the Author" by Chris Bohn. 'Spewing vitriol, violence, humour, insanity and sex, sex, sex on every single page - and naming names - Paradoxia is a bizarre medical textbook of the soul.' - Neon. 'This confessional is both gripping in its honesty, and an erotic source for voyeurs everywhere.' - Juxtapoz. Sickening, saddening, erotic (in a very twisted way) and maddening, this is a book you will never forget.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1997. Paradoxia contains frank and often shocking confessions of promiscuous sexual behaviour among the low life of the New York punk scene of the 1970s. Lydia Lunch relays in explicit sexual detail a predator's diary, revealing the true psychic repercussions of her sexual misadventures. Bound with red silk marker ribbon. Introduction by Hubert Selby Jr. "About the Author" by Chris Bohn. 'Spewing vitriol, violence, humour, insanity and sex, sex, sex on every single page - and naming names - Paradoxia is a bizarre medical textbook of the soul.' - Neon. 'This confessional is both gripping in its honesty, and an erotic source for voyeurs everywhere.' - Juxtapoz. Sickening, saddening, erotic (in a very twisted way) and maddening, this is a book you will never forget.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1996. Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka, respected punk divas, jam with words in this book, their first collection of poems before they became spoken word stars. A spoken word/poetry collaboration, first published in 1982, when both were at the height of their creative powers. Solitary, and intertwining, teh voices of Lydia Lunch and Exene Cervenka call and respond, console and retreat sa they evoke all the moods and scents of love and its lonely twin. Exene Cervenka (born Christine Cervenka February 1, 1956) is an American musician, writer, and artist. Raised in Illinois and Florida, Cervenka moved to Los Angeles in 1976. In 1977 she met musician John Doe at a poetry workshop at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA, and founded the punk band X; they released their debut album, Los Angeles, in 1980, and, over the next six years, five more critically acclaimed albums. Today she continues her musical career with X as well as in solo performances and participation in bands such as The Knitters, Auntie Christ and The Original Sinners. One of her solo songs, Leave Heaven Alone (on the album Old Wives' Tales), condemned militarism and environmental destruction. In 1982 Cervenka published her first in a series of four books, Adulterer's Anonymous, in collaboration with artist Lydia Lunch. She has also performed and recorded solo work doing spoken word.. Second Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1982. (1803-69) French composer, a leading figure in the French Romantic movement. He is noted for innovative orchestral writing, the use of large forces and the emphasis he laid on orchestral colour. His Symphonie Fantastique (1830) is a primary example of programme music. Other works include Harold in Italy for viola and orchestra (1834), the operas Benvenuto Cellini (1838) and The Trojans (1855-58), and the Requiem (1837). He also wrote an extremely influential treatise on orchestration (1844).. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hutchinson, 1955 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hutchinson & Co., 1929 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Macdonald and Evans, 1947 Overture By John Barbirolli Coda By Scott Goddard. Minor stain to top edge. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Joseph Williams, 1911 Rebound in a strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: W.H. Allen, 1977 Following their series of theatrical com panions to the playwrights, Shaw, Maugham and Coward, Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson have turned their attention at the famous opera composers. It is fitting that the first book to be compiled should be devoted to Richard Wagner, whose works are essentially Music Dramas, and from their unique Theatre Collection they have brought together a wealth of material to delight both the Wagner enthusiast and the music lover generally. Among the many beautiful illustrations are a number of rare cont emporary engravings, which enable the reader to trace the development of Wagner stage design since the first production of Rienzi at the Court Theatre in Dresden in 1842. All Wagner's operas, including the early fragment Die Hochzeit and the three y outhful works Die Feen, Das Lievesverbot and Rienzi, are analyzed individually, with extensive synopses, historical notes and the complete cast lists of the first productions in Germany, Britain and America. Barry Millington's illuminating biographi cal and musical introduction sets Wagner's work in its special historical context and there are also press reviews of the first performances in Britain. George Bernard Shaw's famous essay Wagner at Bayreuth is also reproduced, having been out of pri nt for many years. Finally, Barry Millington discusses the highly controversial production of Der Ring des Nibelungen mounted for the 1976 Centenary Festival at Bayreuth and compares it with other major interpretations.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Creation Books, 2002. October 2001: Ten years after their last US tour with Guns & Roses, Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction once again take to the lost highways of an America still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11th, to wreak their own brand of sonic destruction and mayhem across the continent. From New York to Philadelphia to San Francisco to Reno and finally Hollywood, the tour unfurls with rapidly escalating levels of debauchery. Mark Manning’s journal details the adventures of his alter-ego Zodiac and cohorts on this explosive road trip of alcohol abuse, sexual deviancy and noise pollution with his customary acid humour and candid insight. 'A man cursed with a libido which might have provided Freud with material for several books and a Broadway musical.' - The Independent on Sunday. Since fronting the legendary Zodiac Mindwarp & the Love Reaction, singer-songwriter Mark Manning has mutated into a highly respected and popular full-time author. Previous titles include: Bad Wisdom (Penguin, with Bill Drummond), Crucify Me Again (Codex), Get Your Cock Out (Attack Books), the introduction to John Wesley Hardin's Gunfighter and Fucked by Rock (a Creation Books best-seller in 2001). He regularly writes for The Idler literary magazine alongside Louis Theroux and Bill Drummond, performs annually at the Clerkenwell Literary Festival and appeared at Stockholm's Spoken Word Festival (2000). Born in Leeds, Manning has long since made Clerkenwell, London his permanent base. "The Marquis de Sade of Rock'n' Roll" New York Press.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Attack Books, 2000. Mark Manning, known as the loveable Zodiac Mindwarp, treats us to a tender love story about a sex starved teenage groupie and the trials and tribulations she has with her 45 year old rock god boyfriend, and the jealous rival bandleader who tries to take her away. Great cameos by Bill Drummond, Zodiac Mindwarp and even Steven Wells. Part of the Attack Books series. An unread, as new copy.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988. Biographical study of the pivotal 1890s poet, editor, literary, theatre and music critic Arthur Symons. (1865-1945). He became a friend of Yeats, G. A. Moore, and H. Ellis, and attended the Rhymers' Club; his early volumes of poetry (Days and Nights, 1889; London Nights, 1895) were very much of their time in their celebration of decadence and the demi-monde of stage, street, and Café Royal. He was editor of the Savoy, 1896, and published Beardsley, Conrad, Dowson, L. P. Johnson, etc. His The Symbolist Movement in Literature (1899) was an attempt to introduce French Symbolism to England, and he wrote critical studies of Blake, Baudelaire, Pater, Wilde, and others. He is largely remembered as a leading spirit in the Decadent movement, a defender of "art for art's sake". Includes a full bibliography. (Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism, No 25). First Edition. Hardcover. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Robert Cocks & Co., 1853 An important book in the codification of written music by Adolph Bernhard Marx (1795-1866). Based on the 5th German edition of Marx's "Allgemeine Musiklehre" Translated by A.H. Wehrhan. All extremities worn. Rebound in strong library binding. Rare in any condition.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Kahn & Averill, 1976 First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: The Strad Library, 1902 Covers the violin sonatas, the piano trios, string trios, quartets, piano quartets and string quintets, the concerto, romances etc. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1970 First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Cassell, 1960 Kings of Jazz Series No. 5. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1925 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Pogo Publishing, 1985 Seminal music magazine with features and interviews with Killing Joke, Danielle Dax, Ramones, The Cure and Very Things. Some minor wear and a surface tear to back cover due to sticker removal.. First Edition. Magazine. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998 Biography of a transvestite jazz musician. A woman who lived as a man. Suits Me is the incredible story of a gifted deceiver who lived and loved in two skins, one of each sex. Jazz musician Billy Tipton grew up as Dorothy Tipton but lived as a man from the time she was nineteen until she died at the age of 74. Tipton's death made news all over the world, not because he was celebrated as a musician but because of the scale of his deception he had been "married" to five women and had reared several adopted children. A masterpiece of skillful detection and perceptive storytelling, Suits Me is a finely nuanced biography that not only recounts the career of a gifted jazz musician, but also makes one rethink theories of gender, and perhaps of reality itself. Includes a bibliography. "If Billy Tipton succeeded at becoming a man, [Diane Wood] Middlebrook prevails at a literary task as daunting: She makes Tipton a person."David Hajdu.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1950 Contents include The Percussion Band, Selection of Instruments, Ear Training in Symphonic Works, Instruments of the Orchestra and The Scores-Unfinished Symphony (First and Second Movements), Overture of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Fairy Queen (Purcell). Also a chapter on The Use of the Gramophone. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Leslie Frewin, 1969 The Intimate Biography of American, actress and singer Judy Garland. Includes film still of Garland with Dirk Bogarde.. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Dennis Dobson, 1969 Cassell Opera Guides series.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Dennis Dobson, 1948 French composer, and pianist, son of Fr. father and Scottish mother. Moved to Paris 1878. Worked as pianist in 1888 at Montmartre cabaret. In same year wrote his Gymnopédies for pf. Met Debussy in 1890. In 1891 joined Catholic Rosicrucian sect and comp. several works for it. Shortly afterwards seemed almost to have retired from comp., writing fewer than 10 works in 12 years. In 1905 entered Schola Cantorum as pupil of d'Indy and Roussel, leaving in 1908. From about 1910 became something of a cult among young composers attracted by the eccentric, humorous titles of some of his works, e.g. Trois Morceaux en forme de poire (Three Pear-shaped Pieces). Strongly influenced group of young composers known as Les Six. Meeting with Cocteau in 1915 led to Diaghilev ballet Parade (1917), in which jazz rhythms are used and the instrumentation incl. typewriter, steamship whistle, and siren. Later, was assoc. with Surrealists and Dadaists. Satie's importance lay in directing a new generation of Fr. composers away from Wagner-influenced impressionism towards a leaner, more epigrammatic style. His harmony is often characterized by unresolved chords, which may have influenced Debussy (or he may have learned the device from Debussy, nobody knows). Melody is simple, sometimes slightly archaic, and scoring economical, with few tutti passages. Socrate is the most ambitious of his works, most of which are comparatively short, the majority being for solo pf. He anticipated many later avant-garde trends; e.g. in Gnossiennes (1890) there are no bar-lines and the score contains verbal instructions bearing little relation to the mus. But beware, behind the clown's mask is a serious composer. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Vox Mundi, 1950 With an introduction by Benjamin Britten. An account of the Boyd Neel Orchestra. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960 Russian composer whose style is characterized by biting dissonances within rich harmony and brilliant orchestration. His most popular works include the ballets Romeo and Juliet (1935) and Cinderella (1944), the Classical (First) Symphony (1918), Peter and the Wolf (1936), and the comic opera The Love for Three Oranges (1921). He also composed film scores, notably Lieutenant Kije (1934), Alexander Nevsky (1938), and Ivan the Terrible (1942-45).. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Phoenix House, 1956. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Marion Boyars, 1979 First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1963 Following their series of theatrical companions to the playwrights, Shaw, Maugham and Coward, Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson have turned their attention at the famous opera composers. It is fitting that the first book to be compiled should be devoted to Richard Wagner, whose works are essentially Music Dramas, and from their unique Theatre Collection they have brought together a wealth of material to delight both the Wagner enthusiast and the music lover generally. Among the many beautiful illustrations are a number of rare contemporary engravings, which enable the reader to trace the development of Wagner stage design since the first production of Rienzi at the Court Theatre in Dresden in 1842. All Wagner's operas, including the early fragment Die Hochzeit and the three youthful works Die Feen, Das Lievesverbot and Rienzi, are analyzed individually, with extensive synopses, historical notes and the complete cast lists of the first productions in Germany, Britain and America. Barry Millington's illuminating biographi cal and musical introduction sets Wagner's work in its special historical context and there are also press reviews of the first performances in Britain. George Bernard Shaw's famous essay Wagner at Bayreuth is also reproduced, having been out of print for many years. Finally, Barry Millington discusses the highly controversial production of Der Ring des Nibelungen mounted for the 1976 Centenary Festival at Bayreuth and compares it with other major interpretations.. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Putnam, 1949 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1942 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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