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AMES / KING D W / A V
Book #1078
Glossary of Hausa Music and its Social Context 1971. 184pp. 18 b/w photos. £20.00
AMMANN R
Book #1804
Kanak Dance and Music
Ceremonial and intimate performance of the Melanesians of New Caledonia, historical and actual
1997. 285p, b/w illustrations, line drawings and musical examples in text.
£12.00 (Paper)
ATLAS A W
Book #1090
The Wheatstone English Concertina in Victorian England 1996. 155pp. b/w illustrations and music examples £42.50
AUSTIN HENSLEY B
Book #2111
Thurlow Lieurance Indian Flutes 1990. 55pp, b/w illustrations. £10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
BASEL SWITZERLAND
Book #2140
Klangzauber
Funktionen aussereuropäischer Musikinstrumente
Katalog, sonderausstellung vom 23.Mai bis 17.August 1969 by Urs Ramseyer. 15pp German text, 18pp b/w plates. Very good copy
£10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
BEVAN C
Book #1121
Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles 1990. 127pp, 47 b/w photos, details of almost one hundred collections open to the public. £8.50 (Paper)
BHATTACHARYA D
Book #1805
Musical Instruments of Tribal India 1999. 240p, colour and b/w plates & line drawings. £60.00
BOSSCHE J Van den (Editor)
Book #1017
Op Harpen en Snaren: Volksmuziek, Volksdansen, Volksinstrumenten in Vlaanderen 1983. 206pp. colour and b/w illustrations. 19 chapters written by J.Robijns, A.Boone & H.Heughebaert among others. Dutch text. £25.00
BOSTON USA
Book #1959
Sounds of the Silk Road Musical Instruments of Asia Mitchell Clark. This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, MFA Boston, July 9, 2005 - January 5, 2006. 168pp, colour and b/w photos. £18.00 (Paper)
BRINCARD M T
Book #1153
Sounding Forms: African Musical Instruments 1989. Exhibition catalogue. 205pp., fully illustrated with colour & b/w plates £20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
BRUSSELS BELGIUM
Book #1821
Images de l'Univers Unesco 28 octobre-7 novembre 1974, conceived and realized by the Brussels Museum of Musical Instruments. 95pp + 3pp bibliography, b/w illustrations, French and English text. Bottom right had corner creased, contents clean. Small format. £10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
BUCHNER A
Book #1162
Musikinstrumente der Völker 1968. 295pp. colour & b/w plates, line drawings in text. No dust jacket, boards a little soiled. German text. £30.00
(Secondhand)
BUONAVENTURA W
Book #1163
Serpent of the Nile: Women and Dance in the Arab World 1989. 207pp. colour & b/w illustrations £40.00
BÜCKEN DR ERNST EDITOR
Book #2141
Handbuch der Musikwissenschaft.
W Heinitz - Instrumentenkunde: R Lachmann - Musik der Aussereuropäischen Völker: C Sachs - Musik der Antike: P Panoff - Altslavische Volks- und Kirchenmusik
1928, 1929, 1930. 159, 33, 32 and 31pp, colour plates tipped in, b/w illustrations and music examples in text . German text. Back board a little soiled, good copy.
£50.00
(Secondhand)
CHANDOLA A
Book #2012
Folk Drumming in the Himalayas
A Linguistic Approach to Music
First AMS Press edition 1977. 155pp, including 4pp b/w illustrations. Small tear in dust jacket, very good copy.
£25.00
(Secondhand)
CHAUVET S
Book #1175
Musique Nègre considérations: technique, instruments de musique (92 fig.) recueil de 118 airs notés 1929. 242pp. 92 b/w illustrations. French text.
Old half leather rebinding, boards and original title page a little soiled, some pages creased.
£125.00
(Secondhand)
CHRISTENSEN D / KOCH G
Book #1994
Die Musik der Ellice-Inseln 1964 Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin, Neue Folge 5, Abteilung Südsee II. 246pp, 4 b/w plates. German text. Very good copy, like new £20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
CRAWFORD A L
Book #1195
Aida: Life and ceremony of the Gogodala 1981 408pp. The National Cultural Council of Papa New Guinea, richly illustrated with colour & b/w photos. £110.00
(Secondhand)
DAMPIERRE E DE
Book #1202
Harpes Zandé 1991. 165pp. b/w photos & line drawings. French text £23.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
DAY C R
Book #1206
The Music and Musical Instruments of Southern India and the Deccan 1891. 173pp. With an introduction by A.J.Hipkins, the plates drawn by W.Gibb. Special edition of 50 copies printed on Japan paper. 17 chromolithographes. Parchment binding, gilt on top edge. A very nice copy. £1200.00
(Secondhand)
DEN HAAG Holland
Book #1211
Gids buiten-europese muziekinstrumenten, Gemeentemuseum 1972. 32pp. 10pp. b/w plates, line drawings. Dutch Text. £7.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
DEN HAAG HOLLAND
Book #1751
Muziek voor het oog / Music for the eye 2003. This book shows in photographes more than 50 of the best pieces of the music collection of the Gemeentemuseum. The choice includes all sort of musical instruments as well as prints from the 16th to the 19th century. 191pp, colour- and b/w plates. Dutch and English text. £23.00 (Paper)
DEN HAAG HOLLAND
Book #1989
A checklist of Traditional Japanese Musical Instruments 1988 Musical Instrument Collection, Music Department Haags Gemeentemuseum vol. 2 by P Wolff. R van Acht editor. 135pp, fully illustrated b/w plates. Good copy. £20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
DENSMORE F
Book #1216
Mandan and Hidatsa Music Smithonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 80. 1923. 192pp. b/w plates, music examples in text. Ex-library copy, slight damage on corners and spine, spine cracked. £25.00
(Secondhand)
DICKSON J EDITOR
Book #2130
The Highland Bagpipe
Music, History, Tradition
2009. 377pp, b/w illustrations, music examples in text. free cd.
£35.00
DIETRICH / FOSSHAG W / B
Book #1220
Ausser Europäische Lauten 1992. 228pp. 50 beautiful b/w photos, line drawings. Instruments from the collection of B. Fosshag. German text £75.00 (Paper)
EDINBURGH
Book #1246
Historic Musical Instruments in the University Collection: Wind Instruments of Regional Cultures Worlwide 1993 Checklist edited by A.Myers Volume 2 part A fascicle i. 43pp. £5.00 (Paper)
EDINBURGH
Book #1247
Historic Musical Instruments in the University Collection: Stringed Instruments of Regional Cultures Worlwide 1995 Checklist edited by A.Myers Volume 2 part A fascicle ii. 28pp. £5.00 (Paper)
EDINBURGH
Book #1802
Historic Musical Instruments in the University Collection volume 2 part A fascicle iii: Percussion Instruments of Regional Cultures Worldwide. 1998. Checklist edited by A. Myers. 32p. £5.00 (Paper)
FLINTOFF B
Book #1985
Taonga Puoro Singing Treasures
The musical instruments of the Maori
Reprint 2005. 132pp, colour plates. This book is the first that comprehensively covers the world of Maori musical instruments. It includes a background to the tunes played on these instruments and the family of sounds with which they are associated. There are a.o. sections covering various types of instruments. Taonga Puoro is illustrated with colour photographes of exquisite contemporary instruments as well as ancient taonga held in museums around the world. CD sampler enclosed
£20.00 (Paper)
FLORENCIO F A
Book #1270
Crotalogia o Ciencia de las Castañuelas: Contiene una nocion del instrumento llamadas Castañuelas, su origen, modo de usarlas etc. Facs. of 1792 edition 111pp. no illustrations Spanish text. Small format £8.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
FRANKFURT / M Germany
Book #1272
Historisches Museum: Kunsthandwerk im Dienste der Musik: Querflöten aus aller Welt im Wandel der Zeit: Traverse Flutes down the centuries from all over the world: Au fil de temps, Flûtes Traversières du monde entier 1991. Exhibition catalogue by Peter Spohr. 90pp, 30p. of b/w photos including illustrations and descriptions of 101 European and 25 primitive flutes. German, English and French text. £11.00 (Paper)
GANSEMANS J
Book #1276
Volksmuziekinstrumenten, getuigen en resultaat van een interetnische samenleving: een organologische studiemet betrekking tot Aruba, Bonaie en Curaçao 1989. 185pp. including 84 photos, line drawings in text. Flemish text £25.00 (Paper)
GIFFORD P M
Book #1283
The Hammered Dulcimer: a history 2001 439pp. b/w illustrations, line drawings, music examples in text, with an appendix containing selected tuning arrangements for dulcimers of different traditions. £57.00
GIJON Spain
Book #1284
Museo de la Gaita 1992. Catalogue by Garcia-Oliva. 170pp, colour plates. Spanish text £32.00
GIORGETTI P F
Book #2115
Note di Musica Zande
(con trascrizioni musicali di uccelli, tamburi xilofoni e canti zande)
1951 Missioni Africane-Verona. Museum Combonianum N.5 35pp, b/w illustrations & music examples in text. Uncut. Italian text. Good condition.
£10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
GUIS / LEFRANÇOIS / VENTURE
Book #1295
Le galoubet, tambourin: instrument traditionnel de Provence 1993. 269pp. colour & b/w plates. French text. £53.00
GÜNTHER R
Book #2040
Musik in Rwanda
Ein Beitrag zur Musikethnologie Zentralafrikas
KoninklijkMuseum voor Midden-Afrika - Tervuren, België. Annalen - reeks in 8° - Wetenschappen van de mens - nr 50, 1964. Avec un resume en Français.
128pp, 68 plates with musik ex. + 10 photos of people playing instruments. German text with resume in French
£20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
GÜNTHER R
Book #2041
Musik in Rwanda
Ein Beitrag zur Musikethnologie Zentralafrikas
1964. Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale-Tervuren, Belgique. Annales-Serie IN 8°-Sciences Humaines-
n° 50. 128pp, 10 b/w plates depicting musical instruments being played, 68 plates of musik examples. German text with a resume in French.
£20.00 (Paper)
HICKMANN H
Book #2096
Miscellanea Musicologica
Extrait des Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, T. XLVIII
Le Caire, 1953. pp 639-663, b/w illustrations and line drawings. French text. With an inscription (in ink) to Dr E Winternitz from the author on the 1st page. Papercovers damaged and very fragile front cover detached, contents good
£20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
IZIKOWITZ K G
Book #1344
Musical Instruments of the South American Indians 1970. 433pp. b/w illustrations & line drawings in text. £45.00
(Secondhand)
JENKINS J
Book #1353
Ethnic Musical Instruments / Instruments de Musique Ethnique: Identification, Conservation 1970. 59pp. line drawings in text. English & French text. £10.00
(Secondhand)
KELKEL M
Book #1357
A La Découverte De La Musique Polynésienne Traditionnelle 1957. 143pp. plus 11pp. b/w illustrations, music examples. French text £16.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
KIRBY P R
Book #1362
The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa 1953. 285pp. plus map plus 73pp. b/w plates, music examples in text. Spine scuffed, 1 board faded, contents clean. £40.00
(Secondhand)
LA TALVERA (Editors)
Book #1013
Grailaires e Crabaires 1986. 252pp. b/w illustrations, line drawings & measurements. French text. £14.00 (Paper)
LAURENTY J S
Book #1378
Les Cordophones du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi Two Volumes. Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge, Tervuren (Belgique), Nouvelle Série in-4° Sciences de l'Homme Volume 2. 1960. Vol.1 230pp. line drawings, (uncut), vol.2: planches et cartes (damage on spine). French text £120.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
LEYDI / GUIZZI R / F (Editors)
Book #1392
Gli strumenti musicali e l'etnografia italiana (1881-1911) 1994. 347pp. b/w illustrations & music examples. Italian text £21.00 (Paper)
LIEGE Belgium
Book #1015
LES COLLOQUES DE WÉGIMONT IV 1958-1960, Ethnomusicologie III 1964. Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège - Fascicule CLXXII. 275pp. (+ 21pp. catalogue chronologique des différentes Séries). B/w illustrations, line drawings & music examples in text. With discographie. Mostly French text with one German & one English chapter. £45.00
(Secondhand)
LOS ANGELES USA
Book #1938
Hevehe. Art, Economics and Status in the Papuan Gulf Exhibition Catalogue Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Dec. 8,1982-Febr. 6,1983. Monograph series number 18 by C J Mamiya and E C Sumnik. 35pp, b/w illustrations. Very good copy. £10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
MAAS J VAN DER
Book #1419
Das Monochord, das Instrument, des Harmonikers 1985. 140pp. b/w illustrations, line drawings in text. German text £12.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
MANCHESTER
Book #2146
Royal Northern College of Music
Collection of Historic Musical Instruments
Catalogue of the Collection
2010. Compiled by William Waterhouse, edited by Anna Wright, photography by Michael Pollard. 307pp, fully illustrated with colour plates.
£50.00
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MASSONI A
Book #2151
Les Musique de Corse
Chants, instruments et danses
Tradition vivante
2006. 144pp, colour- and b/w illustrations. French text
£27.00
MICHALSKI G / OBNISKA E / SWOLKIEN H / WALDORFF J
Book #1440
An Outline History of Polish Music 1979. 194pp. Edited by T.Ochlewski. 24pp. of colour & 53pp. of b/w plates. Sunned covers, dustjacket repaired. £20.00
(Secondhand)
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MORTON D / RYAN V Editors
Book #2153
Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology
Volume II, No. 2
1975. This issue on the Music Cultures of Southeast Asia is dedicated to the memory of Luang Pradit Phairo. 229pp, b/w illustrations, music examples in text . Roll binding, clean copy.
£20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
MÜHLEMANN L
Book #1456
Die Zither in der Schweiz. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart 1999. 160pp. colour & b/w plates, music examples £35.00
NURNBERG GERMANY
Book #1713
Verzeichnis der Europäischen Musikinstrumente im Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg Band 1 Hörner und Trompeten Membranophone Idiophone,
by J. H. van der Meer
Katalog, 1979. 220pp, 195 b/w plates, slip case.
German text.
£70.00
OSAKA JAPAN
Book #1743
Museum of Musical Instruments, Osaka College of Music Catalogue. 1998. 157pp + 8pp index. Aerophones,
Chordophones, Membranophones, Idiorhones. Fully illustrated, small b/w photos, with description and simple measurements in Japanese and English
£25.00 (Paper)
PARIS France
Book #1481
Gloire des Princes, Louange des Dieux: Patrimoine musicale de l'Hindoustan du XIVe au XXe siècle Exhibition Catalogue by Philippe Brugière, Musée de la Musique 19 March - 29 June 2003, 239pp, lavishly illustrated with colour & b/w plates. French Text. £35.00 (Paper)
PARIS France
Book #1482
Souffler, c'est jouer: Chabretaires et cornemuses à miroirs en Limousin Exhibition Catalogue, Musée national des Arts et Traditions populaires, 14 april - 30th August 1999. 158pp, colour & b/w photos & line drawings in text. French text. £23.00 (Paper)
PARIS France
Book #1487
Songs of the River: Harps of Central Africa Exhibition Catalogue, Musée de la Musique, 29 May - 29 August 1999, Curators Philippe Bruguière & Gaetano Speranza. 403pp, 162 colour & many b/w plates. Line drawings in text. Free CD. £35.00 (Paper)
PHILADELPHIA (PA) USA
Book #1104
A Handbook of the Musical Instrument Collection of the Commercial Museum Philadelphia 1961. 63pp. By J.Barone. Foreword by Leopold Stokowski. (Ethnographic instruments). 1 colour plate tipped in plus b/w plates. Clean copy. £25.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
PINNELL / ZAVADIVKER
Book #1492
The Rioplatense Guitar Volume I: The Early Guitar and its Context in Argentina and Uruguay 1993. 501pp. b/w illustrations, music examples in text £25.00 (Paper)
POWNE M
Book #1499
Ethiopian Music, an introduction. A survey of ecclesiastical and secular Ethiopian music and instruments. 1968. 156pp. 11 b/w plates, line drawings and music examples in text. Dustjacket torn, clean copy. £25.00
(Secondhand)
RAKOTOMALALA M M
Book #2065
Madagascar
La Musique Dans L'Histoire
3/2003. Préface du Dr Césaire Rabenoro. 202pp, b/w illustrations. French text. Very good copy
£20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
RAY S
Book #2023
Folk-Music of Eastern India
With Special Reference to Bengal
1988. 160pp, no illustrations. The author analyses the patterns, rhythmic phrases and the developed aesthetic excellence of the songs. Boards a little soiled, dust jacket with protective film. Good copy.
£12.00
(Secondhand)
RICE I J
Book #1511
Musical Instruments of the Southern Appalachian Mountains 1979. 95pp. A History of the Author's Collection, housed in the Museum of Appalachia, Norris, Tennessee. b/w plates. Paper covers a little worn. £10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
SACHS C
Book #1525
Les Instruments de Musique de Madagascar. Travaux et mémoires de l'institut d'ethnologie 1938. 96pp. plus 15 b/w plates. French text. Ex-library copy. £60.00
(Secondhand)
SCHMIDT L
Book #1536
Volksmusik Zeugnisse Ländlichen Musizierens 1983. 175pp. 48 Illustrations. German text. Dustjacket torn. £10.00
(Secondhand)
SHALEM A
Book #2003
The Oliphant
Islamic Objects in Historical Context
2004. 157 + 2 + xvii pp, colour and b/w plates.
£86.00
SMITH R L
Book #1543
Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions: American Folk Music and Folk Musicians, No.2. 1997. 167pp. including 38pp. b/w plates. £33.00
SUNAGA K
Book #1552
Japanese Music 1936. 66p.p.1 colour & 37 monochrome plates, music examples in text. Covers soiled & tatty £20.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
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TANABE H
Book #2155
Japanese Music Second edition 1937 Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai, translated by S Sakabe. 33pp, 9 b/w plates. Paper cover detached from spine and soiled, repaired tear. Mild foxing in places. £30.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
TRACEY H
Book #1560
Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry and Instruments Second edition with a new introduction 1970. 193pp. plus 2 folding maps, 15 b/w plates. Clean copy. £35.00
(Secondhand)
VERMILLION (SD) USA
Book #1575
The Shrine to Music Museum: catalogue of the collections Vol.2. Instruments from Burma, India, Nepal, Thailand and Tibet. 1982, by Th. E. Cross, B.A. 31pp. b/w photos. £6.00 (Paper)
VERTKOV K
Book #1577
Atlas 1963. 274pp. including 95pp. of music, photographic illustrations of 750 instruments & 24pp. of b/w plates, music examples in text. Russian text. £600.00
(Secondhand)
WATRE THOMAS I
Book #2138
Music and Musical Instruments of the Garo Tribe of North-East India 2007. 133pp, 9pp of b/w illustrations and line drawings plus music examples in text. Good copy £10.00
(Secondhand)
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WINTERNITZ E
Book #2154
Musicali Strumenti
Estratto dal vol. IX Encilopedia Universale dell'Arte
? Istituto per la Collaborazione Culturale Venezia-Roma. 14pp (nos 770-795)3 colour- and 11 b/w plates, Italian text.
£10.00 (Paper)
(Secondhand)
ZGUTA R
Book #1602
Russian Minstrels: A History of the Skomorokhi 1978. 160pp. b/w illustrations £15.00
(Secondhand)

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