Music from Diatrope Books

Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 9x2x6. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. Dust jacket (unclipped) under mylar cover, with a piece of tape over closed tear on the back. 678p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Offers music lovers a monumental guide to this most celebrated of musical forms, with perceptive commentaries on some 118… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1990. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Some foxing on edge. Includes a commentary on "John Cage as a H?rspielmacher" by Richard Kostelanetz. Also "The Travel Diary of Joseph Martin Kraus" by Bertil van Boer, "Pitch-class Set analysis: An Evaluation" by George Perle, and more. pp151-299. Measures 6x9 inches.

University of California Davis, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Articles include "Frederick Gye and "The Dreadful Business of Opera Management" by Gabriella Dideriksen and Matthew Ringel; "Orpheus Revisited: A Ten-Year Retrospect on the Andante con moto of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto" by Owen Jander; "A Kingdom Not of This World: The Political Context of E. T. A.… Read more about this item

Music Sales Corp, 1985. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. 11x4x0. Unmarked text. Bumped spine. Images and musical notation. 48p. Measures 4.5x12 inches. Comprehensive yet concise study course shows beginners how to hold an autoharp, use chord bars, even play well-known melodies. Includes historical notes, bibliography, and a discography.

McKnight Foundation, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked booklet. CD in pocket inside back cover. Features essays about Skrowaczewski?s influence as a conductor and composer, a chronology of his work and life, and original photographs. 26p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches.

American Musicological Society, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Faint sun line on cover. Includes Allegorical Architecture in Scivias:Hildegard's Setting for the Ordo Virtutum by Margot E. Fassler, Tartini and the Tongue of Saint Anthony by Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Winning and Losing in Russian New Music Today by William Quillen, a Colloquy: Studying the Lied:Hermeneutic Traditions and the Challenge of… Read more about this item

Signet, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Some age tanning. Writings and Drawings by John Lennon. Measures 4x7 inches. 175p.

Zagat Survey, 2003. Paperback. Very Good. 8x3x0. Unmarked. Guide covers 1,000 of the top albums of all time, from blues to rock, classical to hip-hop-and everything in between. 332p. Measures 3.75x8.5 inches.

Longman, 1980. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. Nick on cover at spine head. Some tanning on page edges. Covers music and dancing. Index. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Musical notation. Essay topics. 123p. Measures 6.5x8.25 inches.

Oxford University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 102x18x152. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white illustrations. 291p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Explores the underground history of jazz in Hitler's Germany. In tracing the growth of what would become a bold and eloquent form of social protest, Kater mines a trove of previously untapped archival records… Read more about this item

Mel Bay Publications, 1976. Paperback. Acceptable. Unmarked text. Previous owner's name on front end page. Rubbed cover. Photographs, text, and musical notation. 136p. Measures 8.75x11.75 inches. Mel Bay (1913-1997) was an American musician and publisher best known for his series of music education books.

University of California Press, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Includes "Postmodern Signs in Musical Studies" by Leo Treitler, "Miserere upplicanti Dufay: The Creation and Transmission of Guillaume Dufay's Missa Ave regina celorum" by Rob C. Wegman, "Notes on Guillaume Du Fay's Law Works" by Alejandro E. Planchart, "Musical Sources and Stemmatic Filiation: A Tool for Editing Music" by… Read more about this item

American Musicological Society, 1984. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Some foxing on edge. Articles include "The Milan Partbooks: Evidence of Cipriano De Rore's Compositional Process" by Jessie Ann Owens, "Venezia Favorita da Maria: Music for the Madonna Nicopeia and Santa Maria della Salute" by James H. Moore, Alan Tyson on Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, and more. pp233-447. Index. Measures 6.25x9.5… Read more about this item

American Musicological Society, 1984. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Some edge wear. Articles include "The Origin and Early History of Proportion Signs" by Anna Maria Busse Berger, "Illibata Dei Virgo Nutrix and Josquin's Roman Style" by Richard Sherr, "The Repertory of the Cappella Giulia in the 1560s" by Jeffrey J. Dean, "The Authorship of the Motet" Ich Lasse… Read more about this item

American Musicological Society, 1984. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Some edge wear. Articles include "Introducing the Gloria in Excelsis" by Thomas Forrest Kelly; "Musical Patronage at the Royal Court of France under Charles VII and Louis XI (1422-83) by Leeman L. Perkins, "Opera Finances in London (1674-1738) by Judith Milhous; and more. pp479-622. Index. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches.

Slavyanka Chorus, 2015. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text in English. Program for the 100th anniversarry of the All-Night Vigil (Vespers) in slavonic with mixed chorus of 100 voices. Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rachmaninoff's composition. Presented in Palo Alto (St. Mark's Episcopal Church), San Francisco (Grace Cathedral), and Berkeley (First Congregational Church). 20p. Measures 7x8.5… Read more about this item

MIEV Publications, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. 33p. Measures 8.25x11.75 inches. Text in English with a translation by Michael Corner. Musical notation. Te Deum laudamus, (Latin: “God, We Praise You” ) is traditionally sung on occasions of public rejoicing. According to legend, it was improvised antiphonally by St. Ambrose and St. Augustine at the latter's baptism.

American Musicological Society, 2019. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Special issue on Music, Race, and Ethnicity. Contributors include Arne Spohr, Siv B. Lie, David Gutkin, Matthew D. Morrison, Kira Thurman, and others. pp607-981. Index. Measures 6x9.25 inches.

Berkeley Symphony, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Program highlights of Berkeley Symphony's 2010-11 season, its second under Music Director Joana Carneiro. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches. Illustrated in black-and-white. 82p. Includes commissioned world premieres by Enrico Chapela and Du Yun and Manuel de Falla's "El amor brujo"; the program also includes Chapela's new work. Lain in handouts.

Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 1992. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Organized into very short lessons. Illustrated. 96p. Measures 6x9 inches.