Books on Music

Composers

(Paperbound)

ILLUSTRATED LIVES OF THE GREAT COMPOSERS each---

19.00

The most definitive composer reference.Clearly written and well illustrated representation of each composer’s life. A Great resource

 

Bach -----Dvorak----- Paganini -----Strauss family

 

Bartok ----Elgar -----Puccini -----Tchaikovsky

 

Beethoven----- Gilbert/Sullivan -----Purcell -----Verdi

 

Bliss -----Greig -----Rachmaninov -----Vivaldi

 

Britten -----Haydn -----Rossini -----Wagner

 

Brahms----- Mendelssohn -----Schubert -----Weber

 

Britten -----Mozart -----Schuman

 

Chopin -----Offenbach ----Sibelius

 

ALKAN:The Man the Music-Smith(Composer’s life & works. Incl’s new works, recent discoveries & manuscripts). 2 Vols in one.

24.50

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH -Spitta (3 Vol. Set. A great resource on life & works of J.S.Bach.. Chronological sequence of Musical and historical aspects on all that is known about the composer).

69.00

THE BACH READER-David/Mandel

13.95

J.S.BACH’S MUSICAL OFFERING-David

8.50

BACH’S ORNAMENTS-Emery (Full treatise of J.S Bach’s ornaments

24.00

JOHAN SBASTIAN BACH-Forkel

12.50

CARL PHILLIP EMANUEL BACH-Ottenberg (Study of life & works

29.50

BELA BARTOK: An Analysis of his Music-Landvai

19.50

BARTOK: Complete Catalogue of his Works

11.00

BEETHOVEN- Riezler (Eswsence & meaning of Beethoven’s music

9.50

BEETHOVEN AND HIS NINE SYMPHONIES -Grove

14.00

BEETHOVEN: Impressions by his Contemporaries-Sonnecck

8.50

BERLIOZ: Memoir of Hector Berlioz

16.00

LEANARD BERNSTEIN: A Complete Catalogue of his Works.

16.00

THE CONSORT & KEYBOARD MUSIC OF WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd’s instrumental music for viols & keyboard music for organ and harpsichord are discussed with emphasis on musical meaning.

29.00

FREDERIC CHOPIN: Letters - Trns. by E.L.Voynich

14.00

GEORGE CRUMB: Portrait of a Composer

16.00

THE LIFE OF CHOPIN -Franz Liszt (In this rare work, Liszt offers insights on the fantastic life of the composer/performer).
12.50

DELIUS AS I KNEW HIM - Fenby

7.50

EDWARD ELGAR: A Creative Life-Moore (Elgar comes to life in these pages as never before. His life & music. 841pp/500 mus. ex)

46.00

THE MUSIC OF HENRY FILMORE & WILL HUFF -Bierly
Catalogs the music, transcriptions, arrangements & pseudonyms.

9.95

DOO-DAH! Stephen Foster & the Rise of American Popular Culture- Emerson (Life and music of Stephen Foster our enduring songwriter)

16.50

JOHN FOULDS AND HIS MUSIC: An Introduction-MacDonald
The Life & music of the composer. Includes catalog of his works.

29.00

THE GEORGE GERSHWIN READER -Wyatt/Johnson (Marvelous celebration of music & life of one of the giants of American music.

29.00

GIORDANO: Life & Music of the Composer(Portrait of Greatness)

12.50

THE MUSIC OF PHILLIP GLASS-Glass

14.50

ALBERTO GINASTERA: A Complete Catalogue

9.50

HANDEL:Christopher Hogwood(Full study of life & works).

18.00

HANDEL & HIS AUTOGRAPHS -King(Collection of autogr. scores)

12.50

JEROME KERN: A Biography-Freedland

9.50

KING OF RAGTIME: Scott Joploin and his era - Berlin

20.50

THE MUSIC OF LISZT-Searle

9.50

LISZT-Sitwell

9.50

MAHLER’S SYMPHONIES: An Owner’s Manual-Hurwitz (Resource

 

MOZART-Kolb (A moving portrait of the great composer).

17.00

MOZART: The Man and the Artist in his Own Words-Kerst

6.50

THE LETTERS OF W.A.MOZART-Mersmann

10.00

MUSSORSKY-Riesman (Composer’s life & works).

9.50

JEAN PHILLIPE RAMEAU: His Life & Work-Girdlestone

11.50

A RAVEL READER:Correspondence, Articles, Interviews-Orenstein 350 letters by Ravel most of which published in English 1st. time.

33.00

RAVEL: Man and Musician-Orenstein

16.00

ROSSINI: Portrait of Greatness

12.50

ERIK SATIE-Gilmor ( Career & music of the French composer).

12.95

ERIC SATIE- Templier (The man, his life & works)

14.50

THE SCHUBERT THEMATIC CATALOGUE -Deutsch(1515 works

16.00

SHOSTAKOVICH COMPLETE CATALOGUE OF WORKS

16.50

SHOSTAKOVICH-Kay

16.25

STRAVINSKY: A Critical Survey-White

7.50

STRAVINSKY-Vlad (Study of composer’s life & works).

12.95

STRAVINSKY-Sohian

8.50

THE VERDI COMPANION -Weaver

10.50

ANTONIO VIVALDI: Documents of his Life & Works-Kolneder
Original archival documents portray Vivaldi’s life & works.

17.50

PETER WARLOCK: The Life of Phillip Hazeltine-Smith
Informative study of the 20th. century British composer.

24.50

WEBER IN LONDON:1826 (Letters to/ from wife & contemporaries reveal interesting facts about the composer. Nicely illusytrated).

11.00

WORKING WITH RALPH VON WILLIAMS -Douglas

8.50

BBC MUSIC GUIDES:Imformative monographs w/ music examples dealing with specific aspects of a composer’s works. each-----

6.75

Beethoven Concertos & Overt’s-----Mozart Piano Concertos

 

Beethoven Symphonies -----Mozart Chamber Music

 

Berlioz Orchestral Music -----Mozart Wind & String Concertos

 

Brahms Piano Music ----------Purcell

 

Brahms Songs ----------Rachmaninov Orchestral Music

 

Debussy Orchestral Music -----Schubert Chmber Music

 

Dvorak Sym’s & Concertos -----Monteverdi Madrigals

 

Elgar Orchestral Music -----Schuman Piano Music

 

Falla(Emanuel De Falla -----Schuman Orchestral Music

 

Handel Concertos -----Shostakovic Symphonies