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Concise History Of Western Music
by Barbara Russano Hanning
Includes bibliographical references (p. A1-A5) and index.
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Get In the Van
by Henry Rollins
Get in the Van is a memoir by singer, writer, and spoken word artist Henry Rollins first published in 1994 by, Rollins' own company, 2.13.61 Publications. The book is composed of journal entries that Rollins kept while he was lead singer of the band Black Flag from 1981 to its breakup in 1986. Other text includes reminiscences of times when he had yet to start, or had lapsed in, his journal-keeping.
Musica Practica the Social Practice Of Western Music From Gregorian Chant To Postmodernism
by Michael Chanan
The Third and Last Booke Of Songs or Aires 1603 English Lute Songs 1597 - 1632 a Collection Of Facsimile Reprints, General Editi
by John Dowland
Music History Books & Ephemera
The Making of Guys and Dolls
by Keith Garebian
Mosaic Press, 2010. Paperback. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2010 Mosaic Press softcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The latest installment in the widely successful 'Making of The Great Broadway Musicals' series. This book goes behind the scenes of the making of original Broadway Production in 1950.
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A$34.01
The String Instrument Owner's Handbook
by Michael J. Pagliaro
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2015. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2015 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In The String Instrument Owner's Guide, Michael Pagliaro surveys the complete "ownership life cycle" of bowed string instruments.
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A$66.55
Las jiras
by Federico Arana
All our books are in good to very good condition unless otherwise noted (no markings, not ex-library). We are happy to provide detailed pictures of book covers and contents upon request. We ship out of Mexico City by registered mail or FedEx/DHL. Please ask for a detailed shipping quote. Siranda Librería Anticuaria, CDMX. We specialize in hard to find books on the arts and rare editions of 20th Century literature, in many languages. Todos nuestros libros están en buen o muy buen estado, a...
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A$38.74
The Golden Robin, for the Use of Juvenile Classes, Public Schools, and Seminaries
by Perkins, W.O
New York: Oliver Ditsin & Company, 1868. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. Oliver Ditsin & Company,1868. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has heavy shelfwear, darkened, rubbed through on all edges and spine ends. Blue paper paste-down missing a 2-inch piece at top. Pages are clean and unmarked, toned with some foxing. Binding is tight. Hinges are cracked. Good reading copy.
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A$38.74
A History of Western Music
by Grout, Donald Jay
Condition: Very Good+. Dust jacket condition: Good. Clean, tight, unmarked copy. Some staining to outside edges. Previous owner's name inscribed. Dust jacket is chipped. Wrapped in dull mylar cover. Third edition (1980) with Claude V. Palisca of standard text in music history. Extensive B/W illustrations and music scores.
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A$11.62
Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met Bluegrass
by John Cohen
PowerHouse Books, 2019. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2019 PowerHouse Books hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Speed Bumps on a Dirt Roadis a living document of country music's founding fathers and mothers. John Cohen photographed musicians, at home, backstage at public events, from the wings at fiddlers' conventions, out in country music parks, and in the...
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A$26.26
African Music. Journal of the African Music Society. Volume I, Number 3, 1956
by Tracey, Hugh (ed.)
S.Africa: African Music Society, 1956. Soft Cover. Fair. African Music Society,1956. Soft Cover. Cover has substantial shelfwear, cover is off and held in place by three coarse tape hinges. Stain on right edge, piece missing near top of spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, toned. Good reading/research copy.
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A$46.48
A History of Western Music
by Donald Jay Grout
W. W. Norton & Co., 1960. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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A$10.24
Fichthorn's Letter System of Music Reading : A Pupil's Book for Class and Home Study
by Field, Eugene (edited By C. Merton Babcock)
Self-published By Author, 1931. Book. Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Probable First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page. Gray softcover, 39 pp. Complete title: "Fichthorn's Letter System of Music Reading With Essentials for Vocal Classes : Also Useful in private Voice and Instrumental Teaching as well as Class Instrumental Instruction. One Letter Position for all Keys Applicable to all Texts. A Pupil's Book for Class and Home...
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A$23.24
1000 Days that Shook the World
1000 Days that Shook the World: The Psychedelic Beatles - April 1, 1965 to December 26, 1967 Mojo, London, 2002, Special Limited Edition (22,240 of 90,000), large format, softback with stiff card wraps with cut outs, VG+, illustrated throughout from b/w and colour photographs, 146 pp. No inscription or annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean and bright. Wraps clean and crisp, pale mark to back cover (see scan), gentle rubs to edges and corners, price unclipped. MUSIC, COLLECTABLE, THE BEATLES,...
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A$80.44
Die Schönste Lengevitch
by Kurt M. Stein
Vorstellung auf English. Texte auf Deutch.All our books are in good to very good condition unless otherwise noted (no markings, not ex-library). We are happy to provide detailed pictures of book covers and contents upon request. We ship out of Mexico City by registered mail or FedEx/DHL. Please ask for a detailed shipping quote.Siranda Librería Anticuaria, CDMX. We specialize in hard to find books on the arts and rare editions of 20th Century literature, in many languages.Todos nuestros libros...
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A$54.23
Five Centuries of Music in Venice
by Robbins Landon, H. C. and Norwich, John Julius
London: Thames & Hudson, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy/fine. Small 4to. Boards. Pp. 200. Includes 231 illustrations, 49 in color. Venice has always been associated with music--for example Rossini and Verdi saw some of their greatest triumphs there. Here is a beautifully illustrated history of that association.
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A$54.23
Debussy: Man and Artist
by Oscar Thompson
New York: Dover, 1968. Paperback. VERY GOOD. Faint scratches to laminate on front cover. Lower front corner is lightly creased. Binding is sound and tight. No writing/highlighthing. Includes bibliography, index. 393 pages. Originally written in 1937, this book was the first American biography of Debussy. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario.
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A$17.28
AL COMPAS DEL ROCK & ROLL
by RICARDO HOMS
td [border: 1px solid #cccccc;]br [mso-data-placement:same-cell;]All our books are in good to very good condition unless otherwise noted (no markings, not ex-library). We are happy to provide detailed pictures of book covers and contents upon request. We ship out of Mexico City by registered mail or FedEx/DHL. Please ask for a detailed shipping quote.Siranda Librería Anticuaria, CDMX. We specialize in hard to find books on the arts and rare editions of 20th Century literature, in many languages.Todos...
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A$38.74
The Music Architect: Blueprints for Engaging Worshipers in Song
by Constance M. Cherry
Baker Academic, 2016. Paperback. New. New trade softcover in printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 0.72 x 9) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes appendices [2], and and index. 288 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Guidance for Leaders Seeking a Richer Way to Employ Worship Music Worship expert Constance Cherry offers comprehensive guidance to Christian leaders seeking a deeper, richer way to employ worship music in engaging ways for twenty-first-century worshipers....
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A$23.16
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 10th printing (2010). 291pp. SIGNED by Patti Smith on publisher's bookplate mounted on title page. Near Fine/Near Fine copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2010.
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A$290.73
Feedback: The Who and Their Generation
by Casey Harison
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2014 Rowman & Littlefield Publishers hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, historian Casey Harison offers a cultural and social history of one of the most successful bands of the 1960s British Invasion. .
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A$23.16
Marcel Godet, Directeur de la Bibliothèque Nationale Suisse, 1954 First Edition, Signed
by Bourgeois, Pierre
No copies of this small but nicely bound book are found for sale. OCLC only shows five libraries worldwide having copies of this book. Signed by the Author, Pierre Bourgeois to Milton Lord, who became the Boston Public Library head. written in French and in near perfect as printed and bound condition. Some slight toning and sunnint along the cloth spine on the front board with some minor bumps. Otherwise, interior is clean, bright and in excellent condition. A very rare publication about the head of the...
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A$178.18
Pink Floyd: A Kaleidoscope of Conundrums
by Michael O'Neill
UK: Danann Publishing Limited, 2017. Hardcover. New. A clean crisp well preserved 2017 Danann Publishing hardcover in a fine tight binding. Little to no shelf wear. Text is bright and free of marks or underlining. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The story of Pink Floyd is embedded in the story of an era, of a generation tasting personal freedom from the first time and their musical heroes, the musicians who accompanied them and attempted to blaze the trail for them, often at...
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A$26.26
A list of all the songs & passages in Shakespeare wich have been set to music
by F.J. Furnival, W.G. Stone (eds.), New Shakespeare Society
Binding is fragile. The backcover is missing. All our books are in good to very good condition unless otherwise noted (no markings, not ex-library). We are happy to provide detailed pictures of book covers and contents upon request. We ship out of Mexico City by registered mail or FedEx/DHL. Please ask for a detailed shipping quote. Siranda Librería Anticuaria, CDMX. We specialize in hard to find books on the arts and rare editions of 20th Century literature, in many languages. Todos nuestros libros...
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A$193.68
The Larousse Encyclopedia of Music
by HINDLEY, Geoffrey [Editor]
London: Chancellor Press. 1996. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Very Good condition, laminated pictorial boards, in a Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. Black and white drawings. 576 pages. Introduction by Antony Hopkins. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st thus. Hardback.
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A$35.00
Producing Country: The Inside Story of the Great Recordings
by Michael Jarrett
Wesleyan University Press, 2014. Paperback. New. New softcover in matte printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes index and B&W photographs. 320 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Legendary producers describe the making of country music's great recordings Musicians make music. Producers make records. In the early days of recorded music, the producer was the "artists-and-repertoire man," or A&R man, for short. A powerful figure, the A&R man chose...
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A$23.16
Max/MSP, vol. 1
by Francisco Colasanto
Texto en español
Max/MSP es el entorno de programación más difundido y utilizado en el ámbito de las artes multimediales en la actualidad. Su poder de procesamiento, gran estabilidad e interfaz amigable lo han convertido en un referente obligado para artistas de diversas disciplinas.
Por tal motivo, este libro ha sido creado para brindar al lector una guía y un material de consulta actualizado e innovador sobre Max/MSP, que sea al mismo tiempo un efectivo complemento al proceso de... Read more about this item
Max/MSP es el entorno de programación más difundido y utilizado en el ámbito de las artes multimediales en la actualidad. Su poder de procesamiento, gran estabilidad e interfaz amigable lo han convertido en un referente obligado para artistas de diversas disciplinas.
Por tal motivo, este libro ha sido creado para brindar al lector una guía y un material de consulta actualizado e innovador sobre Max/MSP, que sea al mismo tiempo un efectivo complemento al proceso de... Read more about this item
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A$123.95
