Subject Catalogs

These particular catalogs—ranging from 10 to 55 pp are organized by subject (8 are devoted to a single composer, i.e., Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Handel, Haydn, Mozart & Schubert); they list all currently available titles, including rare and out-of-print items in stock. If you need a specific listing (not included below) you may request it by email or telephone (212) 758-1946. All prices subject to change.

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Season

Recent Issues: compilation of recent publications, all genres and centuries included
AMS 2009


AMS 2009:  American Musicological Society - Philadelphia (Nov. 12-15 2009)—if you would like to have a listing of our book display in Philadelphia, you can download it here (160 kb)

Bach
Bach: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material

Beethoven
Beethoven: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material

Brahms
Brahms: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material

Chopin
Chopin: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material

Dance
Dance: dance music, ballets, masques, treatises and literature

Ethno
Ethnomusicology: a selection of publications on ethnomusicological and folkloric subjects (few facsimiles)

Gamba
Gamba/Cello/Viola: music for viola da gamba, violoncello and viola, including methods and literature
Handel
Handel: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material
Haydn
Haydn: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material
Iconography
Iconography: music iconographic material, handwriting, letters, mss collections, exhibition & thematic catalogs
Keyboard
Keyboard: music for piano, harpsichord, clavichord & organ, including methods and literature
Lute/Plucked Strings
Lute/Plucked Strings: music for lute, guitar, vihuela, mandora, mandoline, cittern and harp, including methods and literature
Mozart
Mozart: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material
Opera
Opera/Theater: opera, staged works, scenographic studies, theater construction and literature
Orchestra
Orchestra: symphonies, concertos, cantatas and religious works with orchestra
Plainsong
Plainsong: the important monuments of chant from the 9th to the 16th centuries, including theoretic works and literature
Schubert
Schubert: facsimiles of autographs, primary sources, first editions & a selection of research material
Strings
Strings: music for violin and string ensembles, cantatas with string “symphonies”, late Renaissance generic works, methods and literature
Theory
Theory: theoretical works and music criticism from the  9th to the 20th centuries
Twentieth-Century
Twentieth Century: a catalog devoted exclusively to facsimiles of contemporary music—from Mahler onwards—all genres included
Vocal 1
Vocal 1: Medieval polyphony & lyric song, Renaissance polyphony & homophony, and literature
Vocal 2
Vocal 2: Early Baroque through the Rococo, including lute songs, airs de cour, monodies, cantatas, operas, voice treatises and literature
Vocal 3
Vocal 3: Mozart to the present, including cantatas, operas, lieder and literature
Winds
Winds: music for recorder, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, cornetto and trumpet, including cantatas with wind “symphonies”, late Renaissance generic works, methods and literature
Women
Women: music by women composers, & works and collections influenced by women
Deluxe Music Facsimiles:  special bibliophile editions, press books & manuscripts with significant illuminations or decorations.
 
"The payback of reading baroque and classical music from facsimiles, performers soon learned, was that the text conveyed precisely the degree of information contemporary musicians needed to make a convincing intepretation—no more and no less. If the text lacked editorial hints on performance, that only encouraged us to search for appropriate directions in contemporary tutors. If it contained mistakes, there was nothing for it but to think up our own solutions. And in cases where the composer notated only a sketch, such as in the figured bass parts, decisions as to what notes to play fell once more on the performer, as intended."

Ardal Powell, "Select Music Facsimiles from Italy", Traverso, vol. 11 no. 3.