Search Results: Opera history from The Owl at the Bridge

London, Oxford UP, 1973.. Hard Cover. New Oxford History of Music, Volume VII. xx, 724 p., index, music, plates; 25 cm. Eleven chapters on opera, chamber music, the early symphony, keyboard music. Stock #28,666. Vg/dj vg.

N.Y., G. Schirmer, c.1925. Hard Cover. ix, 310 p. 28 cm. Libretto by A. Ghislanzoni; the English version by Mrs. G.G. Laurence. With an Essay on the History of the Opera by W.J. Henderson. Stock# 30,678. Vg/ no dj.

Title continues: Opera indispensabile ai cultori delle patrie cose non che ai librai ed agli amatori di libri... First published Palermo, 1875 & 1881. Three volumes: (I) A-L, 540 pages; (II) M-Z, 484 pages; (III) Giunte e Correzioni alla lettera A della Bibliografia Siciliana di G. M. Mira; 216 pages. Three volumes; as new; VG+. Stock#ofc0147.

Seven bookseller catalogues listing materials on music, musicians, liturgies, and musical literature. Bel Canto Books, 1230 items; Leamington, 200 items, illus.; Lubrano, 173 items, illus.; Salloch 237, 444 items, a few illus.; Salloch 301, Early American Music, 106 items, index, illus.; Salloch 302, Musical Miscellany, 314 items, a few illus.; Salloch 387, 410 items including opera, autographs, reference, bibliography, history, musicology. All in paper covers; all Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0326.

Mansfield Centre, CT., Martino, 2006.. Hard Cover. ix, 201 p. illus. (music) 20 cm. Reprint of New York [etc.] Longmans, Green and Co., 1921 edition. Contenrs: The dawn of the art; Vocal technic of the early chanters; The Schola Cantorum; The troubadours, descant, and mensural music; Vocal teachers and secular song' Approach of the monodic style; What the early masters taught; The ornaments and passages; Male soprani and other virtuosi ; The seventeenth century Italian opera; Distribution of voices in opera; Early ideals of singing. Stock# 42,386x. Fine new from publisher / no dj.

80 pages, B&W illustrations. Amusing accounts of opera mishaps. Pencil notes in Index; small tears on upper edge of dj back; otherwise, very good condition. Includes card from publisher indicating this was a copy sent to a reviewer. Stock#ofc0033.

Munchen, Verlag Georg D. W. Callwey, 1963. The Opera in Munich from the ceremonial musical written by Giovanni Baptista Maccioni for the entrada of Ferdinand III to performances of Carl Maria von Weber, Rossini, and Mozart in the 1820s. Hard Cover. 272 pages, illus., 23 cm. Ex-library but VG. Stock#33389.

N.Y., Simon and Schuster, 1983. Hard Cover. 368 p. illus., 28 cm. A history of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York. Mayer, who publishes on financial matters, as well as being a music critic, is good at the business aspects of such a large and complex organization. Stock# 30,187. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Grove Weidenfeld [1990].. Hard Cover. 481 p., index, illus., plates; 24 cm. The ten years that Mozart lived in Vienna was the period of his mature procuctivity including his six operas. Stock #29,979x. Fine, remainder mark on bottom edge of one copy, / dj fine. Music, Austria, history, biography.

NY, Morrow, 1943. Hard Cover. xiii, 817 p.; 21.5 cm. An anthology of 150 separate contributions by 53 musical figures. On opera, classical, popular ballads, jazz--the whole range of music. Stock# 32,664. Good+/ dj chipped.

Moskva, Sovetskii Khudozhnik, 1982. Hard Cover. 173, [6] pages, illus. incl. color; 33 cm. Monograph of the works of Nikolai Ignatov, in 1989 professor at the Georgia Academy of Art, who has exhibited throughout the Soviet Union and abroad, and also designs sets for ballet, opera, film, and the stage. Russian text with English synopsis at end. Color illustrated boards; small neat ink presentation inscription on title-page; fine. Stock#L-333.

N.Y., Art Foundation Press/ Simon & Schuster, 1959. Periodical. 168 p., advertisements, illus. (incl. color) throughout; color pictorial covers, 33 cm. Includes Denys Sutton, World's Auctions: Price Records; Sir Kenneth Clark, Looking at Pictures [Watteau, Shop Sign of Gersaint; Courbet, Painter's Studio; Velasquez, Las Meninas; Rembrandt, Self- portraits]; Edward Downes, Wozzeck [Alban Berg's Expressionist opera; with music]; Slawomir Mrozek, Written in the Darkness [9 stories, translated for the first time into English by Louise Varese & Norbert Guterman; from his third book 'The Elephant'; illus. by Daniel Mroz]; Charles Lapicque, Color into Space [physiological optics]; Wallace Fowlie, Poets on Haiti's Map [Fowlie's translations of René Bélance, Jail; Carlos Saint-Louis, Mysticism; Emile Roumer, To Wallace Fowlie; Jean F. Brierre, I Am Here Before You]; Thomas B. Hess, U.S. Sculpture: Some Recent Directions… Read More

Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa, 2000. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation CP32. Soft Cover. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David Edney. 510 pages, plates; 21.5 cm. 'Social structures, the family, and the moral responsibility of the individual are major themes in the trilogy. Three moments of history are evoked: the carefree search for pleasure in the ancien régime, tension and unrest as this order approaches its end, and the struggle to create a new world after the revolution. Beaumarchais used all the theatrical resources of his age and experimented with new ones in order to express the complexity of a rapidly changing world. In addition to the plays, this volume includes commentary by the author on his art.' 'With all the complementary documentation... together with an illustrated theater history.' Comedies which later inspired operas by Rossini and Mozart. Paper; new from publisher. stock#102009.

Simon & Schuster [c1946]. Soft Cover. Edited, with the Stories, History, and Music Described in Detail by Henry W. Simon. Piano Arrangements by Albert Sirmay. Translations by George Mead. Illustrations by Rafaello Busoni. Music Supervisor: William Steinberg. 404 p., illus., music; 30.5 cm.; paper; minor wear; good+. Another copy, minor wear to edges, ink owner name, VG in worn cardboard slipcase mended with tape. Two other copies, minor wear to edges, VG in worn, torn cardboard slipcase. Two other copies, VG in VG slipcase. 35502x oversize.

[Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, 1921]. Hard Cover. Sixth Edition, Rewritten and Revised. [18], 433 p., illus. (photos), index; 23.5 cm. Synopsis of each opera with a brief history and a description of the corresponding Victor records. Brown cloth stamped in gold; VG+ / gift quality. stock#40850.