Search Results: Music from Granny Goose Books

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. The spine shows light reading folds. Partial contents: -- 1. Prologue: Daphne transformed. By Roger Savage. -- 2. Il Corago and the staging of early opera: four chapters from an anonymous treatise circa 1630. By Roger Savage and Matteo Sansone. -- 3. Vanbrugh's Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket, 1703-9. By Graham F. Barlow. -- 4. The Haymarket Opera in 1711. By Judith Milhous & Robert D. Hume. - 5. Righini in Florence: an artistic conflict. By William C. Holmes. -- 6. Signs of the times: a look at late 18th-century gesturing. By Nicholas Soloman.

New York: Four Winds Press, 1972. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The interior of the book is crisp and clean, showing no marks or previous use. The brown cloth covers are fresh, with just a toiuch of wear at tips and corners. The bottom corner of the dust jacket flap is clipped, but the top corner, with the original price of $4.95, is present. The jacket is in very good condition, with one short (approx. 1 inch) tear near the top of the spine -- the attached scan will give you a better idea of how it looks. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: "Everyone in Beany's family is musical. His brother Sam plays the harpsichord, his father plays the viola da gamba (a kind of cello), his mother has a beautiful singing voice, and Beany plays the recorder.... One day Beany's father brings home a special present -- a very old, very beautiful, very fine recorder made in Venice. With the instrument comes a legend" that if the recorder's player has joy in… Read More

Girl Guides Association, 1944. Reprinted 1961 . Soft cover. Very Good. This is a small-format, 40 page, book of songs (words and music) for use by Girl Guide groups. The interior is clean and fresh, with just a few signs of use. There are two small stickers on the inside of the front cover -- a former owner's address label and a small blue sticker from the Girl Guides of Canada, but no other marks or wear. The illustrated paper covers are bright, showing just a touch of wear at tips and corners. A very nice copy. The attached scan gives a better idea of condition.

Toronto: Girl Guides Association, Canadian Council. Reprinted 1961 . Soft cover. Very Good. This is a rather rare small-format, 40 page, book of songs (words and music) for use by Canadian Girl Guide groups. The interior is clean and fresh, with just a few signs of use. There is a former owner's address label on the inside of the front cover, but no other marks or wear. The illustrated paper covers are bright, showing just a touch of wear at tips and corners. A very nice copy. The attached scan gives a better idea of condition. Please note that the front cover and title page give variant forms of the title. The title page says it is " The Canadian Girl Guides Song Book", whereas the front cover says it is "Songs for Canadian Girl Guides".

Hemma, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. The interior of the book is crisp and clean, showing no marks or signs of previous use. The pictorial laminated covers are bright, showing just a bit of wear to tips and corners. A very nice copy. Contents: This is a picture book containing the words and music to 11 French nursery songs, including Frere Jacques and Sur Le Pont d'Avignon, each page with a colour illustration.

Guelph, ON: O.A.G. Students' Council, 1932. Soft cover. Very Good. This is a small (3.75 " x 6.25 ") pamphlet containing 63 "popular ditties" which was issued to incoming freshmen at the Ontario Agricutltural College to prepare them to join group singing and the yells used to cheer on sports teams. The interior is clean and fresh, showing just a bit of light wear. The brown paper covers show light wear and several folds, but no tears or marks. A nice little survival.

New York: Walton Music Corp., 1970. Soft cover. Very Good. Sheet music -- 44 pages. The interior of the book is crisp and clean. There is a shallow clip to the top right hand corner of the title page (presumably to remove the name of a former owner), but no other marks or wear. The paper covers are fresh, with just a touch of wear at tips and corners. A very nice copy.

London: John E. Dallas & Sons. Revised Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. This is a 37 page instruction booklet, with stapled binding. The interior of the book is clean and tight, with just a few signs of previous use. The staples are firm, with light rusting visible. The covers are also in very good condition, with light wear overall, but the tip of the bottom right corner is missing. The attached scan gives a better idea of condition.

Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1, A 'maitre d'orchestre conducts': new and olf evidence on French practice, by David Charlton. -- 2. From score into sound: questions of scoring in Lully's ballets, by Rebecca Haris-Warrick.. -- 3. Doucment et legerement: tempo in French Baroque music, by Lionel Hawkins. -- 4. Jacques Hotteterre le Romain and his father, Martin: a re-examination based on recently found documents, by Tula Giannini. -- 5. A link between opera and cantata in France: tonal design in the music of André Campra, by Greer Garden. -- 6. Vincent d'Indy and the Rameau 'Oeuvres completes': a case of forgery? by Graham Sadler. -- 7. A new French harpsichord source of the mid-18th century with an Eckard connection. -- 8. Dots and storkes on Mozart, by… Read More

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean. There is a bump at the bottom right hand corner, but no other marks or wear. The paper covers are in very good condition, with minor wear at tips and corners. The spine shows several reading folds and rubs. Partial contents: -- 1. The performance of Ars Antiqua motets, by Christopher Page. -- 2. What's in a name? Reflections on some works of Guillaume Du Fay, by Alejandro Enrique Planchart. -- 3. Subtilitas in the tonal language of 'Fumeux fume', by Peter M. Lefferts. -- 4. Chants in the rhymed Office of St Thomas of Canterbury, by Andrew Hughes. -- 5. Recent research on the origins of Western chant, by David Hiley. -- 6. Performing Beethoven's early piano concertos, by Robert Winter. -- 7. 'Great learning, fine scholarship, impeccable taste' A fiftieth anniversary tribute to Sir Richard Terry (1865-1938), by Elizabeth Roche. -- 8. The restored Chapter House wall paintings… Read More

Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in very good condition, with minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. Lully and the rise of the oboe, as seen in works of art, by Bruce Haynes. -- 2. The French hauteboy in England, 1673-1730, by David Lasocki. -- 3. The hautboy in London's musical life, 1730-1770, by Janet K. Page. -- 4. The oboe in the Venetian Republic, 1692-1797, by Alfredo Bernardini. -- 5. The baroque clarinet in public concerts, 1726-1762, by Albert Rice. -- 6. Classical clarinet technique: documentary approaches, by David Charlton. -- 7. A newly discovered 17th-century bassoon by Haka, by William Waterhouse.

Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. Monsieur Doublet and his confreres: the harpsichord decorators of Paris, by Sheridan Germann. -- 2. The songs of Dufay: some questions of form and authenticity, by Margaret Bent. -- 3. Mary Magdalene, musician and dancer, by H. Colin Slim. -- 4. Performing Franco-Netherlandish secular music of the late 15th century: texted and untexted parts in the sources, by Louise Litterick. -- 5. French lute tablature in the 14th century, by Christopher Page. -- 6. Naples, 1460-90: three recent editions.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. Performance practice in the Papal Chapel in the 16th century, by Richard Sherr. -- 2. Prince Arthur (1486-1502), a carol and a cantus firmus. By HughBenham. -- 3. Eighteenth-century French chamber music for vielle. Robert A. Green. -- 4. Another keyboard canzona by Giovanni Gabrieli. By Richard Charteris. -- 5. The basset clarinet revived. By Colin Lawson. -- 6. Francisco Perez Mirabal's harpsichords and the early Spanish piano. By Beryl Kenyon de Pascual. -- 7. The enigmatic canons of Juan del Vado (c1625-1691). By Luis Robledo. -- 8. Another musical Medici coat of arms. By Jean Lionnet.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. The spine shows folding and light damage. Partial contents: -- 1. Cries of Durham. By John Milsom. -- 2. Musical performance in 16th-century Italian literature: Straparola's Le piacevoli notti. By Cathy Ann Elias. -- 3. A liturgical role for Monteverdi's Sonata sopra Sancta Maria. By David Blazey. -- 4. French harpsichord music in the first decade of the 18th century. By Carol Henry Bates. -- 5. Repeat problems in keyboard settings of canzoni alla francese. By Robert Judd. -- 6. A harpsichord from Sorrento. By Laurence Libin & Kathryn L. Shanks.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. The developing violin, by Jaap Schroder & Christopher Hogwood. -- 2. The Unverdorben lute at Fenton House, by Christopher Challen. -- 3. The Performance of Parisian organum, by Edward Roesner. -- 4. The French style and the overtures of Bach, by John O'Donnell. -- 5. Gregorian chant: the restoration of the chant and seventy-five years of recording, by Mary Berry. -- 6. A commentary on Avery Burton's Mass on the Hexachord, by Peter Phillips. -- 7. Approaches to performance: the lutenists' view, by Robert Spencer & Anthony Rooley. -- 8. Bach's keyboard temperament: internal evidence from the Well-Tempered Clavier, by John Barnes. -- 9. Baroque flute discography, by Dale Higbee.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. The spine shows several reading folds. Partial contents: -- 1. Early violins: problems and issues, by Laurence Libin. - 2. The birth of the orchestra in Rome: an iconographic study, by John Spitzer. -- 3 Ad Libitum procedures in instrumental duos and trios, by Sandra Mangsen. -- 4. The string tremolo in the 17th century, Stewart Carter. -- 5. Instrumentation and genre in Italian music, 1600-1670, bt Eleanor Selfridge-Field. -- 6. Violin intonation: a historical survey, by Barbara Sachs. -- 7. Scarlatti's tremulo , by Patrizio Barbieri. -- 8. Words and music by Goscelin of Canterbury, by Richard Sharpe. -- 9. A Zenti harpsichord rediscovered, by Denzil Wraight.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. Johann Sebastian Bach's orchestra: some unanswered questions, by Hans-Joachim Schulze. -- 2. The Dresden Hofkapelle during the lifetime of Johann Sebastian Bach, by Ortrun Landmann. -- 3. The editorial transmission of C.P.E. Bach's music, by E. Eugene Helm. -- 4. A chaconne by Georg Böhm: a note on German composers and French styles, by Peter Williams. -- 5. Türk, touch and slurring: finding a rationale, by Daniel M. Raessler. -- 6. Early fingering: some editing problems and some new readings for J.S. Bach and John Bull, by Mark Lindley. -- 7. The rules for 'Through Bass' and for tuning attributed to Handel, by Jane Troy Johnson. -- 8. The Bach Compendium, by Joshua Rifkin.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. The Italian violin school in the 17th century. By Neal Zaslaw. -- 2. The use of instruments in sacred music in Italy 1560-1700. By Stephen Bonta. -- 3. The role of the violin in the resurgence of the Mass in the 17th century. By Anne Schnoebelen. -- 4. Antonio Veracini in context: new perspectives from documents, analysis and style. By John Walter Hill. -- 6. The Roman repertory for violin before the time of Corelli. By Eleanor McCrickard. -- 7. The influence of the Italian violin school in 17th-century England. By Peter Walls. -- 8. The violin piccolo and other small violins. By Margaret Downie Banks. -- 9. On the absence of keyboard continuo in Haydn's symphonies. By James Webster. 10. The sackbut in England in the 17th and 18th centuries. By Trevor Herbert.

Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in very good condition, with minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. The 'pardessus de viole' and its literature, by Robert A. Green. -- 2. The sacred music of Thomas Ravenscroft, by Ian payne. -- 3. The performance of plainchant, by Lance W. Brunner. -- 4. The gentleman's diversion: John Lenton and the first violin tutor, by Malcolm Boyd & John Rayson. -- 5. An introduction to Alessandro Scarlatti's Toccata prima, by Mark Lindley. -- 6. Viol construction in 17th-century England: an alternative way of making fronts, by DIetrich M. Kessler.

London: Oxford University Press. Soft cover. Very Good. The interior of the journal is crisp and clean, showing no marks or wear. The paper covers are also in excellent condition, with very minor wear at tips and corners. Partial contents: -- 1. The geography of Florentine monody: Caccini at home and abroad, by Howard Mayer Brown. -- 2. Homage to Taverner in Byrd's masses, by Philip Brett. -- 3. The vocal works of Jan Dismas Zelenka, by Jaroslav Buzga. -- 4. Another mass by Hugh Aston? by Nick Sandon. -- 5. Monsieur Doublet and his confrères: the harpsichord decorators of Paris, 2, by Sheridan Germann. -- 6. Le Chansonnier Cordiforme: a review of the complete recording, by Daniel Leech-Wilkinson.