Music / Dance

Paul Marquis, edit. Richard Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes: the Elizabethan Version.

by Paul Marquis, edit.

$ 37.00

 

“On 5 June 1557, Richard Tottel published a collection of 271 poems composed by noblemen, courtiers, and gentlemen of the early sixteenth century. Eight weeks later, 31 July, he published a revised and expanded version of 280 poems, the arrangement of which became the standard for at least ten further editions in the Elizabethan period. Q2 omitted thirty poems from Q1, added thirty-nine new poems, and in twenty-seven places altered the sequence of poems from the first edition. In eight weeks, as Hyder E. Rollins points out, Songes and Sonettes was ‘completely changed’ and ‘thoroughly revised.’ Q2 was the text most likely read by the many editors, authors, and printers who compiled poetic collections in the Elizabethan period, including Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare. Modern readers, however, have had access only to Q1 in Rollins’s Tottel’s Miscellany (1929). This edition, based on Q2, thus provides readers with a copy of a text that has not been readily available since the latter half of the sixteenth century.”
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Robertus de Handio and Johnannes Hanboys. Rules and the Summa. Greek and Latin Music Theory.

by Robertus de Handio and Johnannes Hanboys.

$ 37.00

Robertus de Handio and Johnannes Hanboys. Rules and the Summa. Greek and Latin Music Theory. University of Nebraska Press 1991  Hardcover.  Good, Remainder mark   Octavo 403 pp

“For this edition, Lefferts has thoroughly reexamined, edited, and appraised the single extant source of each treatise. Full descriptions of these sources are provided and the documents are illustrated with a plate from each. Each treatise is presented in its original Latin, with a fully annotated translation on facing pages. Leffert’s introduction discusses the authors, places the treatise in the context of the theoretical traditions of fourteenth-century France and England, and reviews their contents in detail. Indexes of terms, names, and subjects are included. Appendixes provide a concordance to the music examples from the Regule that recur in the Summa and transcriptions of two English motet fragments that exhibit insular notational practices discussed in the treatises. Leffert’s work will be seen as a major contribution to our understanding of medieval English music.”
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Severin. Two Spanish Songbooks: ‘Cancionero Capitular de la Colombina’ (SV2) and the ‘Cancionero de Egerton’

by Severin, Dorothy Sherman.

$ 20.00

Severin, Dorothy Sherman.  Two Spanish Songbooks: ‘Cancionero Capitular de la Colombina’ (SV2) and the ‘Cancionero de Egerton’ (LB3). Liverpool University Press 2001 Softcover Very Good Octavo 438 pp.

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Mackenzie. Piping Traditions of the Inner Isles of the West Coast of Scotland.

by Bridget Mackenzie.

$ 20.00

Bridget Mackenzie. Piping Traditions of the Inner Isles of the West Coast of Scotland. Birlinn Ltd. 2012. Soft cover/like new. Octavo. 372pp.

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Brandolini. On Music and Poetry : De Musica et Poetica 1513.

by Raffaele Brandolini

$ 15.00

Raffaele Brandolini. On Music and Poetry : De Musica et Poetica 1513. Medieval & Renaissance Text & Studies #232. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 2001 Hardcover in DJ. Very Good/Very Good. unused Octavo 124 pp

 

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Farmer. (pseudonym for E.O. Wolcott). Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year AD 1800.

by Farmer, John S. edit.(pseudonym for E.O. Wolcott)

$ 250.00

Farmer, John S. edit.(pseudonym for E.O. Wolcott).  Merry Songs and Ballads prior to the year AD 1800. Privately printed for Subscribers only. National Ballad and Song 1897 5 vols.  Leather covers, ribbed spines Some have cracked hinges. Volume three has a 1.5 ” tear to the leather at the hinge. Vol 5 has damage to spine. Vol 5 cover detached but present. Needs a bookbinder’s tender mercies. Quarto 280, 267, 286, 287, 269 pp

 

” It has often been observed that the only connection between scholars and dollars is the rhyme. Farmer’s was an outstanding case of utter devotion to a valuable and quixotic work, struggling and staggering for decades under the encumbrance of crippling penury.  No connection with the university world in which scholarly publication has always been a patronized activity so long as it stays safe and polite. A sort of allowed self-advertising by means of which instructors slowly become professors, on the unwritten law of ‘Publish or perish!’ – Framer would under ordinary circumstances, have had recourse to commercial publishers. He however, made up his mind to produce linguistic and folkloristic works absolutely unexpurgated during the notably prudish late Victorian age, which is not yet over by any means so far as scholarly publication is concerned…”

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