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The Favorite Guitar Dance with Variations for the Piano Forte with an Accompanying for the Flute.
 [141181] (AMERICAN MUSIC - 19TH CENTURY GUITAR) [Jean Tatton] Latour .
Baltimore: Printed for J. Carr, [nd., ca. 1814-1819?]. Folio, self wraps, removed from bound volume. Overall toning or occ. foxing, closed tear to margin on t.p. with early paper mend on recto, several small chips or closed tears to pages, a good example, complete. Engraved sheet music. Piano forte for two hands and flute; separate staff for flute. OCLC records only an 1820 edition by Blake in Philadelphia and a London edition. Wolfe 5272 - (LSL, MWA, PP). $100
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 Major Jack Downing's March. Composed and arranged for the Piano Forte, Dedicated to the Second Brigade Downingville Militia.
[140679] (ANDREW JACKSON - HENRY INMAN, ARTIST) J.T. Norton .
Philadelphia: Childs & Lehman, Lithographers, [1834]. Folio sheet music, printed wraps, removed from bound volume. [4] pages. First Edition. Autographed and signed by the composer, lower right. Printed on light pink paper stock. Very slight foxing, a near fine example. Political satirist Seba Smith created the imaginary Major Jack Downing through a series of newspaper articles. Supposedly from Maine, Downing went down to Washington D.C. where he quickly became, via Smith's satirical articles, the country's foremost political commentator on the high-handed Andrew Jackson administration and its spoils system. Levy, p. 18: “Such popularity rated a musical tribute, which was supplied by well-known Philadelphia composer, J.T. Norton [who wrote this piece]. The title page carries a delightfully humorous portrait of Major Downing as conceived by Henry Inman, who later became one of America's foremost artists. Norton's music is a caricature of a military march; the right hand plays an air that resembles the blast of a trumpet...Major Downing would have been proud.” [Levy, Picture the Songs, pp. 16-18, --illustrated and extensively discussed. “John T. Norton, who electrified [at this time] New York City audiences with his trumpet playing, lived in Philadelphia.” cited in Guion, “Felippe Cioffi: A Trombonist in Antebellum America” in American Music, (1996), p. 39. Scharf & Westcott, p. 949 for Norton's performances at Peale's Museum. Melder, Hail to the Candidate, pp. 47-48. Not on OCLC. Not in LOC, Music for the Nation. Not in Dichter.] $200
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Up in a Balloon. The Favorite Comic Song. As Sung by Miss Alice Dunning.
[141791] (Ballooning) [Henry Brougham Farnie].
New York: William A. Pond & Co., 1868. Folio, 5 pages. Sheet music, remvd., dbd. Brilliant illustration on the front cover of a large red hot air balloon. Inside the basket, a young maiden holds to banner flags. Old music store stamp near publisher's imprint. OCLC finds one copy only. Lester S. Levy Collection having one variant edition. Small, insignificant areas of paper loss, very good. Alice Dunning was a popular London actress and vocalist. This humorous song concerned a belle and her beau who met at Saratoga. The two romanced up in a balloon, and the wedding was arranged, with Tiffany jewelry in play, but the suitor ended up being unsuitable. The beau's guardian was a broker on Wall Street who determined that the suitor's securities had evaporated up in the air. $250
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Lyon & Healy Recital Hall, Adolph Carpé, Piano Recital, Tuesday, November 17th, 1891... [Cover title]
[141464] (CHICAGO - MUSICAL PERFORMANCES) [Adolph Carpé].
[N.p.]: [s.n.], [1891]. 6¾ x 4 inches. Program brochure printed in green and blue and illustrating a Knabe piano, a harp, and a line of text advertising for Washburn guitars, mandolins and zithers and Lyon and Healy harps. Formerly folded in half, a very good clean and scarce ephemeral item. An announcement for pianist Adolph Carpé for performances by Schumann, Beethoven and Chopin. $25
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 Grand National Allegory and Tableaux. Written expressly for J.M. Hager's Grand Entertainments.
[141778] (CIVIL WAR - PATRIOTIC MUSIC) J.M. Hager.
Buffalo: Matthews & Warren, 1865. 16mo, 32 pages. Printed blue wraps, sewn. Upper cover with small paper loss, lower wrap with substantial loss to paper; foxing. Hager organized a series of patriotic concerts during the Civil War that told the story of the war between the states. “The Grand Disunion Chorus”, “Stand by the Banner of Columbus”, “The First Shot is Fired”, are typical performances within. One piece called Song for Negro has politically opposing verses from Southern and Union states. Massachusetts declares that the negro is “...all smutty-faced, / But honest hearts oft homely forms have graced" while South Carolina exclaims: “Oh! I don't care what your fine thoughts may be / I own him; he shall always work for me.” $45
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 Concert for the benefit of the Norfolk Home Missionary Society, under the direction of Mr. Emilio Agramonte, given at the Norfolk Church, at eight o'clock on Wednesday Evening, August the First, Nineteen Hundred. [Cover title]
[140747] (CUBAN PIANIST - MISSIONARIES) [Emilio Agramonte] .
[New York]: Willett Press, 142 Fifth Avenue, [n.d. ca. 1900]. 12 pages. First Edition. Hand-sewn pamphlet with handsome black and red typography. Near fine condition save mild traces of being mounted in scrapbook to rear cover. This is a concert program and libretto for Rossini's “Stabata Mater” with Emilio Agramonte as musical director and pianist. Emilio Agramonte (1844-1918) Pianist and singing teacher, school founder for opera and oratorio in New York, director of Gounoud Society. When the Cuban Republic was established in 1902 he returned to Cuba and opened the Chaminade Choral Society in Havana. [Orovio, “Cuban Music,” p. 6.] $35
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An Old Book and Its Story. [Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry]
[141731] (English Ballads - 18th century) John Pickford.
: , . [N.p., ca. 1878 through internal citation.] Broadside. 19¾ " x 6" What appears to be intended as a newspaper extra. Authored by John Pickford, rector of Newbourne (near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England) this lengthy broadside narrates the “discovery” and controversy of the manuscript that eventually formed Percy's famed “ Reliques of Ancient English Poetry” and editions and information known up until the year of 1878. Percy's Reliques inspired Sir Walter Scott and countless others in shaping popular music. The broadside is rather poorly printed and there are a few neat editorial corrections to the text. Former fold lines, else near fine condition. Not on OCLC. $50
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 The Copenhagen Waltz. With Variations for the Harp. Also a March for the Harp. With an Accompaniment for the Flute, Violin, or Piano Forte. (“No. 37 of Carr's Musical Miscellany in occasional numbers.”)
[140718] (HARP MUSIC) [Benjamin Carr arranger] .
Baltimore: Printed for J. Carr, [1816]. 8 of [9] pages. [lacks p. 9, harp march pfte for 2 hands, sm. tear to edge of first leaf else a vg. example]. First Edition. Rare. Engraved sheet music. Folio, removed from bound volume. A series of vocal and instrumental pieces, “Carr's Musical Miscellany” was the first of its genre in America (Wolfe, EAM, p. 63). Benjamin Carr was a major figure in early American music as a composer, editor, arranger, and publisher. [OCLC [1], (Keffer Collection, presentation copy from B. Carr). Wolfe 1590, (Levy Collection, Harvard, Library Company). Not in LOC, Music for the Nation. See Meyer, “Benjamin Carr's Musical Miscellany” in Notes, (1976) pages. 253-265.] $125
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An Essay on Music. Pronounced before the Middlesex Musical Society, Sept. 9, A.D. 1807 at Dunstable, (Mass.).
[141680] (MUSIC - CRITICISM) John Hubbard.
Boston: Manning & Loring, 1808. Quarto, 19 pages. First Edition. Orig. marbled wraps. Wraps separating from spine, interior of wraps and contents with old heavy dampstaining; a fair copy. Collated, complete. Shaw & Shoemaker 15276. Printed music within, a fair amount concerning the music of Handel. $100
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Making Tracks: Atlantic Records and the Growth of a Multi-Billion-Dollar Industry.
[4310] (MUSIC - RECORDING INDUSTRY) Charlie Gillett .
New York: Dutton, (1974). 305 pages. Softcover in very good condition. Illustrated. $20
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