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London & New York: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. St. Martin's Press, 1957. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Malcolm Pride. The interior of the book is clean and tight, with just a few signs of previous use. There is a presentation label to a former owner (Young Canada's Book Week, 1958), but no other marks or damage The green cloth covers are fresh, with light rubs at edges and corners. The dust jacket is in Fair condition, with moderate wear, including several short tears, a nick of paper missing from the bottom of the front panel, and fraying at the top and bottom of the spine. These faults should be visible in the attached scan. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: Set in Scotland in the early middle ages. "Niall, a Scottish fisher boy, wanted to help his young friend , Brian, who had lost his power of speech as a result of a terrible experience and had been adopted by the villagers. Niall knew that if anyone could make Brian speak again it was surely Columba, head of the Celtic monastery on… 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 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. 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.

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 15th century lute: new and neglected sources, by Christopher Page. -- 2. The mandore in the 16th and 17th centuries, by James Tyler. -- 3. Number symbolism in the renaissance lute rose, by Robin Headlam Wells. -- 4. Guesswork and the gemshorn, by Andrew Parkinson. -- 5. The harpsichord in 18th century Sweden, by Eva Nordenfelt-Aberg. -- 6. An unknown French ornament table from 1699, by David Fuller. -- 7. Baroque ornamentation surveyed: Frederick Neumann's major new study, By Neal Zaslaw

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. Lully's first opera. By Jerome de la Gorce. -- 2. For and against the order of nature: who sang the soprano [castrati]. By Lionel Sawkins. -- 3. Performing choral dialogue by lully. By Lois Rosow. -- 4. More faces than Proteus: Lully's 'Ballet des muses'. By James R. Anthony. -- 5. A sweet servitude: a musician's life at the court of Mlle de Guise. By Patricia Ranum. -- 6. Grimarest's 'Traité de récitatif': glimpses of performance practice in Lully's operas. By David Tunley. -- 7. Reinterpreting the Capital of the fourth tone at St Lazare, Autun. By Hélène Setlak-Garrison. -- 9. Folding harpsichords. By Laurence Libin.

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. Possente spirto: on taming the power of music, by Tim Carter. -- 2. The Gonzagas visit Venice, John Whenham. -- 3. St Mark's before Willaert, Iain Fenlon. -- 4. Monteverdiana 1993, by Denis Stevens. -- 5. 'Col nobilissimo esercitio della vivuola': Monteverdi's string writing, by Peter Holman. -- 6. Dots and strokes in the late 18th- and 19th-century music, by Clive Brown. -- 7. Two case studies in performance practice and the details of notation 1: J. S. Bach and 2/4 time, by Peter Williams. -- 8. Reflections on Christopher Page's Relections, Margaret Bent.

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. When is an Orchestra not an Orchestra? By Neal Zaslaw. -- 2. The instrumentation of Handel's early Italian works. By Hans Joachim Marx. -- 3. Italian oratorio and the Baroque Orchestra. By Eleanor Selfridge-Field. -- 4. Improvized ornamentation in a Handel aria with obbligato wind accompaniment. By John Spitzer. -- 5. Newly found works of C. P. E. Bach. By Rachel W. Wade. -- 6. C. P. E. Bach and the tradition of Passion music in Hamburg. By Stephen L Clark. -- 7. Performing C. P. E. Bach: some open questions. By Alec Hyatt King. -- 8. Morality and music: a study of a Flemish transformation scene of the later 16th century.

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 role of the keyboard continuo in French opera 1673-1776, by Graham Sadler. -- 2. The Viennese fortepiano of the late 18th century, by Malcolm Bilson. -- 3. Les Folies françoises, by Jane Clark. -- 4. The manner of interpretation, by Zuzana Ruzickova. -- 5. A modern approach to the historic organ, by Cleveland T. Johnson. -- 6. The golden age regained: 2, by Peter Phillips. -- 7. The Violin bow in the 18th century, by David D. Boyden. -- 8. Does restoration destroy evidence?, by John Barnes.

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 has somewhat heavier wear and folds. Partial contents: -- 1. On playing the harpsichord, by Ralph Kirkpatrick. -- 2. A new flute sonata by Handel, by David Lasocki & Terence Best. -- 3. Telemann and the chalumeau, by Colin Lawson. -- 4. A renaissance correspondence concerning trumpet music, by Peter Downey. -- 5. BWV565: a toccata in D minor for organ by J. S. Bach? by Peter Williams. -- 6. A lost Morley song rediscovered, by Cedric Thorpe Davie.

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 and rubs. Partial contents: -- 1. The orchestra in Beethoven's Vienna, by Clive Brown. -- 2. Good execution and other necessary skills, by Robin Stowell. -- 3. The 'Kreutzer' Sonata as dialogue, by Owen Jander. -- 4. Fingering in Haydn's string quartets, by William Drabkin. -- 5. Two sets of unexplored metronome marks for Beethoven's piano sonatas, by Sandra P. Rosenblum. -- 6. Carl Czerny's metronome marks for Haydn and Mozart symphonies, by William Malloch. -- 7. A tie is a tie is a tie: reflections on Beethoven's pairs of tied notes, by Paul Badura-Skoda. -- 8. An early metronome, by David Martin.