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1) Paul Hindemith Werkverzeichnis

Mainz. Very Good. Paperback. N.D. 56pp . more information

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2) Catalogue De L'Oeuvre D' Albert Roussel

Paris. Very Good. 1947. Paperback. 138pp, frontis. Previous owners neat signature on cover. . more information

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3) The Elgar-Atkins Friendship
Atkins, E. Wulstan

The Elgar-Atkins Friendship
David & Charles. 1984. 0715385836 . 510pp, plates. Ex library, usual stamps, remains of tape on boards, else very good in very good dust jacket . more information

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4) Gerald Finzi : An English Composer
Banfield, Stephen

Gerald Finzi :  An English Composer
Faber & Faber. 1998. 0571195989 . 571pp, 8 plates, music examples. Ex library, minimal stamps else very good in very good dust jacket. A heavy book . more information

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5) Gerald Finzi : An English Composer
Banfield, Stephen

Gerald Finzi :  An English Composer
Faber & Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. 0571195989 . 571pp, 8 plates, music examples. A heavy book . more information

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6) The Music of Anthony Hedges : A Catalogue of the Works of the Composer, with an Autobiographical Essay
Bayliss, Colin

The Music of Anthony Hedges :  A Catalogue of the Works of the Composer,  with an Autobiographical Essay
Hull: Humberside Leisure Services. Very Good. 1990. Softcover. 0904451488 . xxxvii, 136pp, illustrations. . more information

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7) Sonatina for Violin and Piano
Berkeley, Lennox

Chester Music. Very Good. Paperback. JWC391 score and part . more information

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8) The Carl Nielsen Collection : A Catalogue of the Composer's Musical Manuscripts in the Royal Library
Bjornum, Birgit, & Mollerhoj, Klaus

The Carl Nielsen Collection :  A Catalogue of the Composer's Musical  Manuscripts in the Royal Library
Copenhagen: The Royal Library. Very Good. 1992. Hardcover; Pictorial Boards. 8772891793 . 301pp, frontis, plates, facsimiles. . more information

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9) Stars in a Dark Night : The Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family
Boden, Anthony

Stars in a Dark Night :  The Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family
Alan Sutton. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0862992257 . 126pp, b/w illustrations. . more information

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10) Canto d'Amore: Classicism in Modern Art and Music 1914-1935
Boehm, Gottfried; Mosch, Ulrich; Schmidt, Katherina

Canto d'Amore: Classicism in Modern Art and Music 1914-1935
Merrell Holberton. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 1858940354 . 490pp, colour & b/w illustrations Catalogue of an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel, 1996. The book comprises five general essays introducing discussions of around 60 individual works by artists and composers including Debussy, Satie, Stravinsky and de Falla, Brancusi, Picasso, Leger and Dali. New copy A heavy book. . more information

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11) Michael Tippett
Bowen, Meirion

Robson Books. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0860511375 . 196pp, 8 plates, music examples, chronological list of works. Ex library, endpaper and title page removed in slightly chipped dust jacket; The Contemporary Composers Series. . more information

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12) Michael Tippett
Bowen, Meirion

Robson Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0860511375 . 196pp, 8 plates, music examples, chronological list of works. Bottom corner very slightly bumped. . more information

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13) Michael Tippett
Bowen, Meirion

Robson Books. Fine. 1997. 2nd Edition, Updated. Glazed Pictorial Paper Covers. 1861050992 . The Contemporary Composers series. 318pp, 8 plates, music examples, chronological list of works. A new book. . more information

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14) Twentieth-Century Music 1900-1945
Bray, Trevor

Open University Press. Very Good. 1974. Paperback. The Development of Instruments and their Music: units 23-25 previous owners initials . more information

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15) Grieg and Delius. A Chronicle of their Friendship in Letters
Carley, Lionel

Marion Boyars. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0714529613 . 226pp, illustrations. New copy . more information

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16) Edward Elgar. Centenary Sketches
Chambers, H.A

Edward Elgar. Centenary Sketches
Novello & Co. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. ©1957. Hardcover. Essays by eleven authors closely associated with the composer. 64pp. . more information

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17) Britten: War Requiem
Cook, Mervyn

Britten: War Requiem
Cambridge University Press. Fine. 1996. Hardcover. 0521440890 . 115pp, music examples. New copy; Cambridge Music Handbooks . more information

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18) Harrison Birtwistle: Man, Mind, Music
Cross, Jonathan

Faber & Faber. Fine. 2000. Paperback. 0571193455 . 256pp, music examples. Among the most original and challenging music to have been produced by a British composer, this book offers a critical account of Birtwistle's work. new copy . more information

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19) Paths to Modern Music Aspects of Music from Wagner to the Present Day
Davies, Laurence

Paths to Modern Music Aspects of Music from Wagner to the Present Day
Barrie & Jenkins. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 0214652491 . xvii, 330pp. . more information

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20) Reviving the Muse: Essays on Music after Modernism
Davison, Peter

Reviving the Muse: Essays on Music after Modernism
Brinkworth, Wilts.: Claridge Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 1870626540 . 274pp. Essays by composers, musicologists and performers assessing the state of serious music today by presenting a challenge to modernists and minimalists and addressing the subjects of tonality, atonality, the experimental avant-garde, and electronic and computerised additions to orchestras. New copy . more information

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21) Conducting Elgar
Del Mar, Norman

Conducting Elgar
Oxford University Press. Fine. 1998. Paperback. 0198165579 . Completed and edited by Jonathan Del Mar 278pp, frontispiece. New copy. . more information

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22) The World of Twentieth Century Music
Ewen, David

The World of Twentieth Century Music
Hale Publishing. Fine. 1991. Second Revised Edition. Paperback. 0709043988 . 990pp. New edition of this standard work fully revised by Stephen J. Pettitt. Entries on each composer give a brief biography and list works in order of composition with programmatic and analytical notes. A very heavy book, extra postage will be requested. . more information

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23) Nielsen Symphony No 5
Fanning, David

Nielsen  Symphony No 5
Cambridge University Press. Fine. 1997. Paperback. 0521446325 . 127pp, music examples. A new book. ; Cambridge Music Handbooks . more information

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24) Italian Opera Since 1945
Fearn, Raymond

Harwood Academic Publishers. Near Fine. 1997. Glazed Pictorial Boards. 9057550016 . Contemporary Music Studies volume 15 258pp, illustrations, music examples. New copy (bottom corners have been very slightly bumped) . more information

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25) The Life of Charles Ives
Feder, Stuart

The Life of Charles Ives
Cambridge University Press. Fine. 1999. Glazed Pictorial Paper Covers. 0521599318 . 199pp, illustrations. A new book. . more information

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26) Robert Russell Bennett A Bio-Bibliography
Ferencz, George J

New York: Greenwood Press. Fine. 1990. Hardcover; Cloth, Gilt Titles. 0313264724 . 215pp, frontis. New copy; Bio-Bibliographies in Music Series No 29 . more information

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27) From Parry to Britten British Music in Letters 1900-1945
Foreman, Lewis

From Parry to Britten British Music in Letters 1900-1945
Batsford. Very Good. 1987. Paperback. 0713455217 . xviii, 332pp, 60 illustrations. A chronological anthology of correspondence by and about British composers active between 1900 and 1945. . more information

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28) The Percy Grainger Companion
Foreman, Lewis

Thames Publishing. 1981. 0905210123 . 268pp, plates, text figures, catalogue of works, discography. Ex library, book plate, usual stamps else very good in very good dust jacket. . more information

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29) Grainger on Music
Gillies, Malcolm & Ross, Bruce Clunies

Grainger on Music
Oxford University Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover; Black Cloth, Gilt Titles. 0198166656 . 416pp, numerous music examples. This selection of forty-six essays about the production, promotion, and propagation of music is drawn from his over 150 public writings. Written between the turn of the century and the early 1950s, these essays reveal Grainger's youthful compositional plans, his ideas about piano technique, and his enduring high regard for the music of Grieg, Delius, and `Frankfurt Group' colleagues Cyril Scott, Roger Quilter, and Henry Balfour Gardiner. New copy . more information

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30) Finding the Key. Selected Writings of Alexander Goehr
Goehr, Alexander

Finding the Key. Selected Writings of Alexander Goehr
Faber & Faber. Fine. 1998. Paperback. 0571193102 . 321pp, New copy . more information

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31) The Operas of Gian Carlo Menotti, 1937-1972 : A Selective Bibliography
Grieb

Green Cloth/Silver Titles. 193pp. Ex library, front endpaper & title page removed else very good. . more information

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32) The Private World of Leonard Bernstein
Gruen, John

Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 1968. Pictorial Boards. Photographs by Ken Heyman 191pp. slight shelf wear else v good . more information

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33) Arthur Honegger
Halbreich, Harry

Arthur Honegger
Portland, OR: Amadeus Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 1574670417 . 677pp, 16 plates, music examples, chronological list of works. Translated by Roger Nichols. A new copy. Heavy book, extra postage may be requested. . more information

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34) Harrison Birtwistle
Hall, Michael

Robson Books. Fine. 1998. Glazed Pictorial Paper Covers. 1861052359 . The Contemporary Composers series. 186pp, plates, music examples, catalogue of works. A new book. . more information

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35) Harrison Birtwistle
Hall, Michael

Robson Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Red Cloth/Gilt Titles. 0850512703 . The Contemporary Composers series. 186pp, plates, music examples, catalogue of works. . more information

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36) Leaving Home : A Conducted Tour of Twentieth Century Music with Simon Rattle
Hall, Michael

Leaving Home :  A Conducted Tour of Twentieth Century Music with  Simon Rattle
Faber & Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. 0571178774 . 288pp, illustrations, colour & b/w. Small graze to back of dust jacket. A heavy book. . more information

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37) Harrison Birtwistle
Hall, Michael

Robson Books. 1984. Hardcover. 0850512703 . 186pp, plates, music examples, catalogue of works. Ex library, usual stamps else very good in very good dust jacket. ; Contemporary Composers Series . more information

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38) European Music in the Twentieth Century
Hartog, Howard

Penguin Books. Very Good. 1961. Paperback. 360pp. A little browning to pages. . more information

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39) John Tavener : Glimpses of Paradise
Haydon, Geoffrey

John Tavener :  Glimpses of Paradise
Victor Gollancz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1995. 0575057033 . 306pp, 8 plates, list of works, discography . more information

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40) Britten
Headington Christopher

Britten
Omnibus Press. 1996. Glazed Pictorial Card Covers. 0711948127 . The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers series. 145pp + index, illustrations. Ex library, usual stamps else very good. . more information

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41) Britten
Headington Christopher

New York: Holmes & Meier. Fine with no dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0841908028 . x, 166pp, 8 plates. New copy; The Composer As Contemporary Series . more information

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42) Die Visionen des Arnold Schonberg : Jahre Der Malerei / the Visions of Arnold Schonberg: the Painting Years
Hollein, Max

Germany: Hatje Cantz. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover; Grey Cloth. 3775711333 . 230pp, illustrations, colour plates. several well-known authors give a comprehensive overview of his work. Contains much of Schonberg's visual art, produced between 1908 and 1912. This was an important form of expression for him outside of music. These works include portraits of family and friends, landscapes, and several set designs for his stage productions. Text in German & English. Heavy book. New copy. . more information

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43) Holst
Holmes, Paul

Omnibus Press. 1997. Glazed Pictorial Card Covers. 0711965250 . The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers series. 141pp, illustrations. Ex library, usual stamps else very good. . more information

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44) Capriccio for Orchestra
Holst, Gustav

Capriccio for Orchestra
Faber Music. Very Good. ©1972. Paperback. edited by Imogen Holst. Study score. 22pp. . more information

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45) Holst
Holst, Imogen

Faber & Faber. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1974. Second Edition. 057109967X . The Great Composers series. 93pp, illustrations, music examples. . more information

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46) The Music of William Walton
Howes, Frank

Oxford University Press. Very Good. 1965. Hardcover. 234pp, frontis, music examples. Slightly chipped dust jacket in protective film. . more information

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47) Essays before a Sonata The Majority and Other Writings
Ives, Charles (Selected & edited by Howard Boatwright)

Essays before a Sonata The Majority and Other Writings
New York: Norton. Fine. 1999. Softcover. 0393318303 . Xxv, 258pp, music examples. The Essays Before a Sonata was conceived by Ives as a preface to his second piano sonata, Concord, Mass. 1845. . more information

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48) Janacek's Uncollected Essays on Music
Janacek, Leos

Janacek's Uncollected Essays on Music
Marion Boyars. Fine. 1987. Paperback. 0714529516 . Selected, edited and translated by Mirka Zemanova 253pp, illustrations, music examples. These essays were originally published between 1884 and 1928. New copy. . more information

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49) Modern American Music from Charles Ives to the Minimalists
Karolyi, Otto

Modern American Music from Charles Ives to the Minimalists
Cygnus Arts. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 1900541009 . 143pp, A new copy. . more information

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50) John Tavener, The Music of Silence A Composer's Testament
Keeble, Brian

Faber & Faber. Fine. 1999. Glazed Pictorial Paper Covers. 0571200885 . 210pp, 8 plates. New copy. . more information

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