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London: King's Head Theatre, 1996 Programme from a performance at the King's Head Theatre, London 2 April - 26 May 1996.. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Gerald Duckworth & Co., 1949 Rebound in stong library binding.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Mills & Boon, 1911. Dame Emma Albani (November 1, 1847 - April 3, 1930), was a leading soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, the first Canadian singer to become an international star. She was born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse in Chambly, Quebec, to professional musician Joseph Lajeunesse and Mélina Mignault . She began her musical studies with her father at the age of four, then was in a convent between 1858 and 1865 (her mother having died in 1856). She and her family moved to Albany, New York, where she became a popular singer, and saved enough money to study in Europe starting in 1868. She studied with Gilbert-Louis Duprez and changed her last name to "Albani". Her operatic debut was on March 30, 1870 in Messina, playing Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula. She was immediately invited to Malta to appear in various operas, and in the following year she signed up to a 5-year contract with Frederick Gye the manager of Covent Garden in London, making her London debut in 1872. Tours to Russia and America soon followed. On August 6, 1878, she married Ernest Gye and they had a son Frederick-Ernest Gye the next year. She joined the Abbey-Graw touring company in 1889, and made her official debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto in 1891. Her last operatic performance was in 1896, but she continued to tour, visiting Canada in 1901, 1903, and 1906. Her last public performance was in London in 1911. She made a few recordings in the 1900s. In 1925, Emma Albani was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire , but in the same year Ernest died and her money was lost in bad investments. Benefit concerts raised enough for her to live comfortably until she died, in 1930. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Barking: House of Dolls, 1987 Seminal music fanzine with features and interviews with Psychic TV, Shamen, Danielle Dax, The Leather Nun etc.. First Edition. Magazine. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1939 Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Paris: En Sorbonne Pour L'esbaudissement des Escholiers, 1930. Rare and important two volume set of a unique collection of bawdy student and army songs. Edited by Edmond Dardenne Bernard. French text. Covers showing wear. Rare.. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New Delhi: Sangeet Natak Akademi, 1984 Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: George Allen & Unwin, 1974 Account of the Santals and their world, their poetry and songs, dances, festivals and cerermonies, their attitude to love, sex and marriage.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Cassell, 1965 Italian composer. He wrote 75 comic and serious operas. Initially influenced by Gioacchino Rossini, he formed his own melodic style with rich harmonies and orchestration. Operas include L'Elisir d'Amore (1832), Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), Roberto Devereux (1837), La Fille du Régiment (1840), and Don Pasquale (1843).. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Benjamin Blom, 1968 First published in 1888.. First Thus. Cloth. New/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Robson Books, 1983 First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Dublin: Maurice Fridberg, 1948 Rebound in stong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Hollywood: Nosferatu Productions, 1993 Important publication of the gothic underground. Music, films, books etc.. First Edition. Magazine. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Spring Books, 1966 English composers, famous for a series of operettas written with the librettist W.S. Gilbert. They included HMS Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), and The Mikado (1885). Sullivan also composed one opera, Ivanhoe (1881), and oratorios, cantatas and church music, including many hymns, such as Onward, Christian Soldiers.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Frederick Muller, 1980 Features profiles of fifteen of the most famous brass bands, a complete record of British Open Champions, a diary of annual events, and a comprehensive discography.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1962 Second Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Julia Macrae, 1982 English mezzo-soprano. She was renowned as a singer of Lieder, oratorio and opera. Well known at the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), Sadler's Wells and Glyndebourne, she is particularly admired for her interpretations of Mahler's song cycles.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Ernest Benn, 1966 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Ernest Benn, 1956 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Paris: Chez Les Freres Garnier, 1849 Collection of bawdy songs. French text.. Nouvelle Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. more information

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Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963 (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). Translated by C.R. Fortescue. Rebound.. First English Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Gerald Duckworth, 1967 Musical settings by Mervyn Horder to six of the author's poems.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Record Books, 1966 Sound picture series. Twenty pages of text, the rest is photographic illustrations by the author. Glossy illustrated boards with record envelopes containing vinyl recordings attached inside covers. Some where to spine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co., 1971 Biographies of eight jazz musicians including Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Lester Young. Includes bibliography and discography.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1958 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1962 Covers all musical periods: medieval; Renaissance; baroque; classical; romantic; and modern. It includes extended articles on major figures, movements, technical concepts, and explanations of standard symbols, abbreviations and notations.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1938 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: Geoffrey Bles, 1968 John Christie who was best known as the founder of the Glyndebourne Festival Opera House.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Epworth Press, 1966 Organisation, conducting, voice production, enunciation, interpretation, repertoire; everything the choirmaster needs to know.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. Illus. by R.G. Phillips. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1973 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Paris: Black Mony, 1989 A guide to everything including superb discography with all known bootlegs also listed. French text. RARE. The Cramps are a punk rock band originally formed in 1976. Their line-up has rotated much over the years, with Lux Interior and Poison Ivy, the lead singer and lead guitarist respectively as the only permanent members. They were part of the early CBGBs punk rock movement that had emerged in New York. The band is sometimes credited as one of the founders of the psychobilly genre of music, though they deny this.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962 Rebound.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1980 An intimate biography of American, actress and singer Barbra Streisand.. Second Printing. Paperback. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Williams & Norgate, 1952 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: Novello, Ewer and Co., 1901 Rebound in a strong library binding. nd.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1923 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, 1972 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Sanctuary Publishing, 2003 The band that put Northern Irish music on the map, giving disaffected youth in Belfast a voice to the troubles that were tearing the province apart. Stiff Little Fingers (SLF) were a seminal band who tore up the rule book on how a band were "supposed" to get a record deal and achieve chart success. This is a song-by-song guide to the most successful punk band ever to leave Belfast. Told in his own words, singer and songwriter Jake Burns gives the whole story behind the group and how they became the first band to get an independent album into the national Top 40. DJ John Peel praises them as the band that opened the door for other Irish bands to follow such as U2 and the group are still filling major venues and recording new material. This overview covers all the songs written from 1976 to 2003 and recounts the history of the group from Highway Star to current solo tours, via (of course) Stiff Little Fingers. It looks at all personnel, past and present, how they met and how they parted and provides an account of the three different managers of their career and Jake's "solo" group Jake Burns & The Big Wheel.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1946 Russian composer, one of the ‘Russian Five’ who promoted nationalism in Russian music. Mussorgsky's finest work is the opera Boris Godunov (1868-9). Other important pieces include the piano work Pictures from an Exhibition (1874, later orchestrated by several composers) and A Night on the Bare Mountain (1867). After his death, much of Mussorgsky's work was edited and revised, notably by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. 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: Novello and Company, 1944 French composer, exponent of impressionism. Debussy wrote highly individual music that was delicate and suggestive. He explored new techniques of harmony and orchestral colour. Some critics cite his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894) as the beginning of 20th-century music. Other orchestral works are Nocturnes (1899), La Mer (1905), and Images (1912). His piano works, such as Suite Bergamasque (1890) and Etudes (1915), are among the most important in the repertoire. His one completed opera was Pelléas and Mélisande (1902).Short biography. nd c.1950s. One incidence of underlining!. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974 First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Victor Gollancz, 1988 Recreates the magic of the greatest cellists in history. In succinct and absorbing accounts of their lives, characters and careers, Margaret Campbell brings out the special achievement of each, whether in impact on composers and public taste, contribution to advances in playing technique, or in sheer power over an audience. The instrument we know today developed fron the 'bass violin' and came into general use by the time the great makers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (such as Stradivari, Amati and Montagnana) had brought their craft to perfection and made many of the instruments most sought-after by the modern virtuosi. Margaret Campbell has researched the great performers and teachers, from the earliest known professionals to composers and players such as Boccherini, Romberg, Piatti, Popper, and the founders of various national schools of music: the Duports (pere et fils), Cervetto, and Cossman, who was a friend of Lizst. In more recent times, European names such as Becker, Klengel, Salmond and Alexanian lead to Feuermann, Piatigorsky, Fournier, Rostropovich and above all to Casals - all of whom in turn have had much influence on younger players such as Jacqueline du Pre and the many brilliant players from the USA, Russia and Japan. In all, the reader is given a rich picture of traditions handed down nationally through the generations, becoming cross-fertilised internationally during the twentieth century.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1975 First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Blandford Press, 1953 Foreword by Marian Anderson. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1877 Illustrated libertine songs. Dessins de Jules Worms beautifully printed by D. Jouaust and bound in three-quarter leather with marbled boards and end papers. French text.. First Thus. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. Illus. by Paul Rajon. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Paris: Germer-Baillière, 1874 French text. Front wrap missing, spine worn, some minor worm damage. Rare in any condition. From the collection of Sir Cyril Burt.. First Edition. Paperback. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Fountain Press, 1952 Rebound in strong library binding.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: B.T. Batsford, 1963 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Faber and Faber, 1936 Includes Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Manuel De Palla, Debussy, Vaughn Williams, Bartok and Arnold Bax. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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New York: American Heritage Press, 1971 Foreword by Kristi Witker. Reprint of the original 1907 publication. Foreword by Kristi Witker. Contains words and music to such songs as "Under the Curse", "The Orphan Girl", "How My Boy Went Down", "The Temperance Train", and many more.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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